Furthest upstream was Hutton mill (), just above Bridge End Bridge. A mill race left the river on its left bank and fed a mill much closer to the bridge. In the late 1600s, it was a corn mill and some of the first machinery for cleaning grain to be used in the region was described by Thomas Machell, the rector of Kirkby Thore, who collected a huge amount of data about Cumbria until his death in 1698.
The text describes a mill located upstream from Bridge End Bridge. A water channel originating on the left bank of the river supplied a mill closer to the bridge. In the late 1600s, this mill was used for grinding corn and some of the earliest grain cleaning machinery in the area were documented by Thomas Machell, the rector of Kirkby Thore.