Hele, Devon

Hele
Hele
	The old mill at Hele
	Hele Location within Devon
OS grid reference	SS9902
Civil parish	Bradninch;
Shire county	Devon;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
	List of places UK England Devon 50°48′47″N 3°25′48″W / 50.813°N 3.430°W

Hele is a village in Devon, England, lying about one mile (1.6 km) SSW of Bradninch and 10 miles (16 km) NNE of Exeter, on the River Culm.

The village is home to a paper mill once belonging to the company Wiggins Teape, now part of the multinational company Purico Group. The Devon Valley Mill produces sausage casing paper and teabag paper under the "Crompton Paper" brand name.^[1]

The mill site was originally that of a grist mill which was converted to a paper mill in 1762. It was here that John Dewdney produced the first glazed writing paper in England in the 1840s. He was also famously called upon to supply the paper for the catalogues of the Great Exhibition in 1851.^[2]

The nearby railway station, now closed, used to serve Hele and Bradninch.

References

^ "Devon Valley Mill". Retrieved 4 October 2012.
^ "Historic Bradninch". Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2013.

External links

Description in GENUKI - UK and Ireland genealogy Archived 21 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
Devon Valley Mill website

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[1] "Devon Valley Mill". Retrieved 4 October 2012.

[2] "Historic Bradninch". Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2013.

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