There is evidence of a corn mill in Darton from 1260. Flour production on the site is though to have stopped by 1870 after which the mill was used to grind corn for cattle. The use changed again in the 1880s when it was converted into a saw mill which is marked as disused by 1914 (Umpleby 2000, 83). The houses were built across the site in 1980 removing signs of the mill so legibility is invisible.