Tags: Site Of Special Scientific Interest.
Old Iron Works Mells (Fussells’ Lower Works) (grid reference ST738488) is a 0.25 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wadbury Valley south of the village of Mells in Somerset notified in 1987. The site is a ruined iron works which mainly produced agricultural edge-tools which were exported all over the world and is now in addition to its unique and major importance in relation to industrial archaeology used as a breeding site by horseshoe bats.
