 Running parallel to the main high street is a leat with a public footpath running along it . The leat runs from Head Weir , north of Cullompton , and takes its water from the Spratford Stream . It flows past three former watermills ( Upper , Middle and Lower Mill ) and then empties into the Culm near First Bridge . It is uncertain when the leat was first made but the south end of the leat and Lower Mill are shown on an early seventeenth @-@ century map . The leat is no longer in use for powering mills and the Environment Agency is not interested in managing the leat nor keeping it flowing so the Cullompton Leat Conservancy Board was formed to restore and maintain the Leat in 2005 . 
