 Syleham Mill is first mentioned in connection with some monks from near Thetford, who founded a monastery in 1020.The final structure to occupy the site was built some time after 1779.Initially it had six sets of stones and two wheels, powered by a fall in the river, but in 1849, Henry Warne moved his business from Hoxne Mill to Syleham, and used the mill to power looms on which a coarse cloth made from linen and cotton called drabbet was woven.