of £750,000. The milk cannery closed in 1972 and was refitted as a yoghurt manufacturing plant, dovetailing with Nestlé's 1978 acquisition of the Chambourcy brand. By 1980 the factory was producing 72 million pots of yoghurt per annum. Nestlé produced cans on the site for many years, for the milk plant and later for the bean factory, which produced cans of baked beans and pasta in sauce (sold under their own label and for supermarket own-brands). The can manufacturing unit was closed on the site in 1989, as cans could be procured from Metal Box more cheaply than they could be made, and Nestlé as a whole moved away from over a century of can-making (except for odd sizes e.g. for catering coffee and milk powder, which continued to be made at Dalston, near Carlisle). The brick chimney was a local landmark for much of the century, but was demolished in 1989 and replaced with a much taller metal stack. Present The Cross & Blackwell factory closed in 1995 and the site was transferred to Cereal Partners, a joint venture between General Mills and Nestlé which makes breakfast cereals. The Nestlé desserts factory closed in 2004, allowing the site to concentrate on wheat-based cereals. Production of Shredded Wheat and Shreddies was moved from Welwyn Garden City in 2007, and in 2014 those were still the main products. The metal chimney was removed in 2011, as it was not required by the cereal-making plant. The site is also the location of the head office of Trapeze Group UK, a supplier of software for public transport management. References Further reading Buildings and structures in Wiltshire Watermills in England