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In nearby Westbury Leigh, part of the parish of Westbury, cloth mills and weavers' cottages remind us of its past.
Inside the church is a fine memorial to Sir John Leigh, who died in 1629.
Two of his later factories survive in Leigh Street (though they are no longer furniture factories): a three-storey one of 1901, brick built, and a much more ambitious one of 3 storeys built in
It burned down in 1908, and the front block was rebuilt by Thomas Thurlow, who also designed Walter Birch's factory in Leigh Street.
The flat landscape of Mobberley bred one of our country`s most famous mountaineers, George Leigh Mallory.
The River Brett curves around the farmhouse, now at the blocked end of the village street nearest to Monks Eleigh.
The weather- boarded former water mill, trading as Brent Eleigh Tools (centre left), was converted into a dwelling c1990; the mill machinery and stones were preserved in the conversion.
The central gabled window is inscribed WB1880, for Walter Brown of Brent Eleigh Hall.
The 17th- century thatched barn on the right is part of the Monks Eleigh Hall Farm.
