Snuff Mills

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Snuff Mills
The restored mill building at Snuff Mills
Type	public park
Location	Bristol, England
Status	open all year

Snuff Mills is a park in the Frenchay area of north Bristol, also known as Whitwood Mill.

There are pleasant walks along the banks of the River Frome, for example to Oldbury Court. The park was purchased in 1926 by the Corporation of Bristol as "a pleasure walk for citizens of Bristol" and restored in the 1980's by the Fishponds Local History Society.

The park's name originates from one of the millers. His nickname was 'Snuffy Jack' because his smock was always covered in snuff.^[1]

The park includes an old quarry and a stone mill. The old mill within the park was used for cutting and crushing stone from the many quarries along the Frome Valley during the late 1800's. It contains a waterwheel, egg-ended boiler in its setting and the remains of a vertical steam engine.