The earliest woad production in Britain dates from the Iron Age. By the 19th century, cheap production and imports of blue dye from indigo plants in Asia led to the woad industry's decline in Britain. The last working woad mill in Britain was in Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire, and closed in 1910. The last commercial woad production in Britain was recorded in 1932 in Lincolnshire.
This is part of the Series: NMR02/01 NMR Lantern Slide Collection - Catalogued; within the Collection: NMR02 National Monuments Record - Lantern Slide Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Agriculture
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