For the local water-powered mills, access to water was a constant problem. There were frequent disputes about who had the right of access to water from rivers or streams.
Michael Foxcroft and Henry Farrer had fulling mills which stood on opposite banks of the brook at Luddendenfoot.
In 1599, Foxcroft accused Farrer of destroying his mill dam and filling the goit feeding his mill with stones. Farrer and his friends came with swords, daggers, rapiers, staves, pitchforks, gavelocks and picks and diverse other weapons and broke down the dam and filled up the goit with stones.
The feud lasted several weeks and Foxcrofts' friends kept an armed guard on the area around the mill. 2 people were killed during the affair
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