List of watermills in the United Kingdom

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The use of water power in Britain was at its peak just before the Industrial Revolution. The need for power was great and steam power had not yet become established. It is estimated that at this time there were well in excess of ten thousand watermills in the country. Most of these were corn mills (to grind flour), but almost any industrial process needing motive power, beyond that available from the muscles of men or animals, used a water wheel, unless a windmill was preferred.

Today only a fraction of these mills survive. Many are used as private residences, or have been converted into offices or flats. A number have been preserved or restored as museums where the public can see the mill in operation.

Kingsbury Watermill Museum, St Albans

This is a list of some of the surviving watermills and tide mills in the United Kingdom.

"The Lesson of the Water Mill"

 
Listen to the water mill
Through the livelong day;
How the clicking of the wheel
Wears the hours away.
Languidly the autumn wind
Stirs the withered leaves;
On the field the reapers sing
Binding up the sheaves;
And a proverb haunts my mind
And as a spell is cast,
"The mill will never grind
With the water that has passed."
 

Sarah Doudney,


From "Puck's Song"

 
See yon our little mill that clacks
so busy by the brook,
She has ground her corn and paid her tax
ever since Domesday Book.

 

Rudyard Kipling,

England[]

Bedfordshire[]

Stotfold Mill, Bedfordshire
  • Bowman's Watermill, Astwick
  • Bromham Watermill, Bromham
  • Clophill Watermill, Clophill
  • Stotfold Watermill, Stotfold
  • The Olde Watermill, Barton-le-Clay

Berkshire[]

Chamberhouse Mill, Berkshire
  • Abbey Mill, Reading
  • Calcot Mill, Reading
  • , Thatcham
  • Dun Mill, Hungerford[1]
  • Denford Mill, Hungerford[1]
  • Eddington Mill, Hungerford[2]
  • , Thatcham
  • Sandford Mill, Reading
  • Sindlesham Mill, Reading
  • Twyford Mill, Twyford
  • Watermill Theatre, Bagnor

Buckinghamshire[]

Hambleden Mill, Buckinghamshire
  • Castlethorpe Mill, Castlethorpe
  • Dodd's Mill, Chenies
  • , Ivinghoe
  • Hambleden Mill, Hambleden
  • Haversham Mill, Haversham
  • , High Wycombe

Cambridgeshire[]

Houghton Mill, Cambridgeshire

Cheshire[]

Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire

Cornwall[]

Cotehele Mill, Cornwall
  • Bar Pool Mill, Falmouth
  • Boscastle Mill, Boscastle
  • Carbeal Tide Mill, Torpoint
  • Carthew Mill, Carthew
  • Cotehele Mill, Calstock
  • Dinham Tide Mill, St Minver
  • Gerrans Sea Mill, Gerrans
  • Heskyn Mill, Tideford
  • Hingham Mill, near Wadebridge
  • Kestle Mill, Kestle
  • Little Petherick Creek tide mill, Little Petherick
  • Melinsay Mill, Veryan
  • Penpoll tidemill, Feock
  • Perranarworthal Manor Mill, Perranarworthal
  • Poltesco Higher Mill, Ruan Minor
  • Poltesco Lower Mill, Ruan Minor
  • Polvellan or Pool Tide Mill, Looe
  • Poughill Mill, Bude
  • Salter Tide Mill, Saltash
  • Tregarus Mill St Stephen
  • Tregidden Mill, Tregidden
  • Tregoose Old Mill St Columb Major
  • Trevillett Mill, Tintagel
  • Treway Mill, Zennor
  • Wheal Martyn, Carthew

Cumbria[]

Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Cumbria
  • Acorn Bank Mill, Penrith
  • Beckside Mill, Kirkby-in-Furness
  • Blennerhassett Mill, Aspatria
  • Brampton Mill, Appleby
  • , Eskdale[4]
  • Gleaston Water Mill, Ulverston[5]
  • Heron Corn Mill, Milnthorpe[6]
  • High Mill, Alston
  • Little Salkeld Watermill, Penrith[7]
  • Muncaster Mill, Ravenglass
  • Old Fulling Mill, Ambleside
  • Rutter Mill, Great Asby
  • Sparket Mill, Hutton
  • Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Ulverston
  • Wythop Mill, Embleton

Derbyshire[]

Stainsby Mill, Derbyshire
  • Arkwrights Mill, Cromford
  • , Rowsley
  • Derby Silk Mill
  • Haarlem Mill, Wirksworth
  • Masson Mill, Matlock Bath
  • Stainsby Mill, Chesterfield
  • Lumsdale Mills, Matlock

Devon[]

Otterton mill, Devon
  • Bicclescombe Mill, Ilfracombe
  • Bicklegh Mill, Tiverton
  • , Broadclyst
  • Coldharbour Mill, Cullompton
  • Docton Mill, Hartland
  • Finch Foundry, Okehampton
  • , Hele Bay, Ilfracombe
  • , Seaton
  • Morwellham Quay, Gunnislake
  • Otterton Mill, Budleigh Salterton
  • , Sidbury
  • Town Mills, Chudleigh
  • Town Mill, Totnes

Dorset[]

King's Mill, Dorset
  • Boar Mill, Corfe Castle
  • Cann Mill, Shaftesbury
  • Castleton Water Wheel Museum, Sherborne
  • Hembury Mill,[8] Askerswell
  • King's Mill, Marnhull
  • Loverley Mill, Moor Crichel
  • Maiden Newton Mill, Maiden Newton
  • Mangerton Mill, Bridport
  • Melbury Abbas Mill Shaftesbury
  • Pegg's Farm Mill, Iwerne Minster
  • Place Mill, Christchurch
  • Sturminster Newton Mill, Sturminster Newton
  • Town Mill, Lyme Regis
  • White Mill, Sturminster Marshall
  • Upwey Mill, Weymouth

Durham[]

Killhope Wheel, Durham
  • , River Greta
  • Killhope Wheel, Killhope
  • Leap Mill Farm, Burnopfield
  • , Blaydon
  • Old Fulling Mill, Durham

East Sussex[]

Sheffield Mill, East Sussex
  • Bartley Mill, Bells Yew Green
  • Bateman's Park Mill, Burwash
  • , Hailsham
  • , Etchingham
  • Sheffield Mill, Furners Green
  • Tide Mills, Newhaven
  • See also:-
    • Medway watermills

East Yorkshire[]

Stamford Bridge Mill, East Yorkshire
  • Beswick Mill, Beswick
  • Corn Mill, Stamford Bridge
  • Old Mill, Sutton upon Derwent
  • Welton High Mill, Welton

Essex[]

Bourne Mill, Essex
  • Alderford Mill, Sible Hedingham
  • Beeleigh Mill, Maldon
  • Bourne Mill, Colchester
  • Easterford Mill, Kelvedon
  • Fyfield Mill, Fyfield
  • Harlow Mill, Harlow
  • Little Hallingbury Mill, Little Hallingbury
  • Little Parndon Mill, Little Parndon
  • Roydon Mill, Roydon
  • Thorrington Tide Mill, Thorrington

Gloucestershire[]

Egypt Mill, Gloucestershire
  • Arlington Mill, Bibury
  • Dean Heritage Centre, Cinderford
  • Egypt Mill, Nailsworth
  • Kilcott Mill, Hillesley
  • Little Aston Mill, Upper Slaughter
  • Old Mill, Lower Slaughter
  • Owlpen Manor, Owlpen
  • , Stanway, Cheltenham
  • Syreford Mill, Andoversford

Greater London[]

Clock Mill, Greater London
  • Butter Hill Mill, Carshalton
  • Clock Mill, Bromley-by-Bow
  • House Mill, Bromley-by-Bow
  • Merton Abbey Mills, Merton
  • Ravensbury Mill, Morden
  • Upper Mill, Carshalton

Hampshire[]

Sadler's Mill, Hampshire
  • Abbey Mill, Bishops Waltham
  • Abbey Mill, Winchester
  • , Fordingbridge
  • Anstey Mill, Alton
  • Ashlett Mill, Fawley
  • Barton's Mill, Old Basing
  • Beaulieu Tide Mill, Beaulieu
  • Beaurepair Mill, Sherborne St John
  • Botley Mill, Botley
  • Bourne Mill, Farnham
  • Bourne Place Mill, Farnham
  • Chase Mill, Bishops Waltham
  • Chesapeake Mill, Wickham, Hampshire
  • Durley Mill, Botley
  • Eling Tide Mill, Eling
  • Fulling Mill, Old Alresford
  • Gaters Mill, West End
  • Greatham Mill, Greatham
  • Greywell Mill, Greywell
  • Hartley Mill, Hartley Wespall
  • Hatch Mill, Farnham
  • Headley Water Mill, Headley
  • High Mill, Farnham
  • Hockley Mill, Twyford
  • Isington Mill, Binstead
  • Laverstoke Mill, Laverstoke
  • Longbridge Mill, Sherfield on Loddon
  • Lower Mill, Old Basing
  • Lower Neatham Mill, Alton
  • Monxton Mill, Monxton
  • New Mill, Eversley
  • Old Mill, Selborne
  • Paulton's Park Sawmill, Paultons Park
  • Pilcot Mill Dogmersfield
  • Quay Mill, Emsworth
  • Rooksbury Mill, Andover
  • St Cross Mill, Winchester
  • Sadler's Mill, Romsey
  • Shawford Mill, Shawford
  • Town Mills, Andover
  • Turk's Farm Mill, Bentley, Hampshire
  • Upper Mill, Longparish
  • Weir Mill, Old Alresford
  • Whitchurch Silk Mill, Whitchurch
  • Willey Mill, Farnham
  • Winchester City Mill, Winchester
  • , Southampton

Hertfordshire[]

Redbournbury Mill, Hertfordshire
  • Kingsbury Watermill, St Albans
  • Mill Green Watermill, Hatfield
  • Moor Mill, Bricket Wood
  • New Barnes Mill, St Albans
  • Park Mill, St Albans
  • Pre Mill, St Albans
  • Redbournbury Mill, Redbourn
  • Shafford Mill, St Albans
  • Sopwell Mill, St Albans

Isle of Wight[]

Yafford Mill, Isle of Wight
  • , Calbourne
  • Gatcome Mill, Gatcombe
  • Lower Calbourne Mill, Calbourne
  • Pan Mill, Newport
  • St Cross Mill, Newport
  • St Helens Tidal Mill St Helens
  • Tidal Mill, Yarmouth
  • Yafford Mill, Yafford

Kent[]

Bradley's Mill, Kent
  • Ashbourne Mill, Tenterden
  • Bartley Mill, Frant
  • Bradley's Mill, Speldhurst
  • Chilham Mill, Chilham
  • Christmas Mill, Edenbridge
  • Crabble Corn Mill, Dover
  • Chart Gunpowder Mills, Faversham
  • Furnace Mill, Lamberhurst
  • Hever Watermill, Hever (Medway)
  • Hope Mill, Goudhurst
  • Hythe Watermill, Hythe
  • Periwinkle Mill, Milton Regis
  • Swanton Mill, Mersham (Stour)
  • Ryarsh Mill, Ryarsh (Medway)
  • Wandle Mill, Benenden
  • See also:-
    • Medway watermills
      • Medway watermills (lower tributaries)
      • Medway watermills (middle tributaries)
      • Medway watermills (upper tributaries)
    • Stour watermills

Lancashire[]

Higher Mill, Lancashire
  • Higher Mill, Helmshore, Rossendale
  • , Conder Green
  • Forge Bank Mill, Halton

Leicestershire[]

Cotes Mill, Leicestershire
  • Claybrooke Mill, Claybrooke Magna
  • Cotes Mill, Cotes
  • , Broughton Astley
  • Shepshed Watermill, Shepshed
  • Glenfield Watermill Glenfield

Lincolnshire[]

Cogglesford Mill, Lincolnshire
  • , Alvingham
  • Atkin's Mill, Scopwick
  • Baines Mill, Louth
  • Baldock's Mill, Bourne
  • Bridge Street Mill, Louth
  • Church Mill, Market Rasen
  • Claypole Mill, Claypole
  • , Aby
  • Cogglesford Mill, Sleaford
  • Crown Mill, Louth
  • Hibaldstow Wind and Water Mill, Hibaldstow
  • Holdingham Mill, Holdingham
  • Hubbards Hill Mill, Louth
  • Hudd's Mill, Stamford
  • James Street Mill, Louth
  • Ketsby Mill, South Ormsby
  • King's Mill, Stamford
  • Londonthorpe Mill, Manthorpe
  • Manor Mill, Kirkby Green
  • Molecey's Mill West Deeping
  • Spittlegate Mill, Grantham
  • Stevenson's Mill, Horncastle
  • Stockwith Mill, Hagworthingham
  • Tealby Thorpe Mill, Tealby
  • Tetford Mill, Tetford
  • Thoresway Waterwheel, Thoresway
  • Tyson's Mill, Tealby
  • Westgate Mill, Louth
  • Whitton's Mill, Gainsborough
  • Young's Mill, Kirkby Green

Norfolk[]

Caley Mill aka Heacham Mill, Norfolk

Northamptonshire[]

HardwaterMill, Northamptonshire
  • Ashton Mill, Oundle
  • Billing Mill, Billing
  • Hardwater Mill, Great Doddington
  • Towcester Mill, Towcester

North Yorkshire[]

Gayle Mill, North Yorkshire

Northumberland[]

Ridley Mill, Northumberland

Nottinghamshire[]

Warsop, Nottinghamshire
  • Bath Mill, Mansfield
  • , Cuckney
  • , Fiskerton
  • , Ollerton
  • , Rufford
  • , Warsop

Oxfordshire[]

Mapledurham Watermill, Oxfordshire
  • Ascott Mill, Ascott-under-Wychwood
  • Bliss Tweed Mill, Chipping Norton
  • Charney Mill, Charney Bassett
  • Church Mill, Standlake
  • Combe Mill, Long Hanborough
  • , Goring-on-Thames
  • Little Clanfield Mill, Clanfield
  • Lower Kingstone Mill, Ashbury
  • Mapledurham Watermill, Mapledurham
  • The Mill at Sonning, Sonning Eye
  • Standhampton Mill, Stadhampton
  • Venn Mill, Garford
  • , Wroxton

Shropshire[]

Daniel's Mill, Shropshire
  • , , Highley - Former 13th century Corn Mill.
  • Daniels Mill, Bridgnorth[10]
  • Upton Mill, Little Hereford, Shropshire.
  • Wrickton Mill, Neenton

Somerset[]

Wookey Hole Paper Mill, Somerset
  • Bishop's Lydeard Mill, Bishops Lydeard
  • Burcott Mill, Burcot
  • Clapton Mill, Ston Easton
  • Claverton Pumping Station, Claverton
  • Combe House Hotel (originally a tannery) Holford
  • Combe Sydenham Mill, Combe Sydenham
  • Dunster Working Watermill, Dunster
  • Gants Mill, Pitcombe
  • Hestercombe Mill, West Monkton
  • Hinton Farm Mill, Mudford
  • , Chard
  • Orchard Mill, Williton
  • Piles Mill, Allerford
  • Priston Mill, Priston
  • Rode Mill, Rode
  • Saltford Brass Mill, Saltford
  • Stratford Mill, Henbury
  • Tonedale Mills, Wellington
  • Williton Mill, Williton
  • Wookey Hole Paper Mill, Wells

South Yorkshire[]

Worsbrough Mill, South Yorkshire

Staffordshire[]

Brindley Mill, Staffordshire

Suffolk[]

Flatford Mill, Suffolk

Surrey[]

Shalford Mill, Surrey
  • Abbey Mill, Eashing
  • Albury Mill, Albury
  • Botting's Mill, Postford
  • Cobham Mill, Cobham
  • Cosford Mill, Thursley
  • Coxes Lock Mill, Addlestone
  • Eashing Mill, Eashing
  • Elstead Mill, Elstead
  • Enton Mill, Witley
  • Gresham Mill, Old Woking
  • , Gomshall
  • Hatch Mill, Godalming
  • Haxted Watermill, near Edenbridge
  • Heath Mill, Worplesdon
  • Netley Mill, Shere
  • Ockford Mill, Godalming
  • Ockham Mill, Ockham
  • Old Castle Mill, Pixham
  • Paddington Mill, Abinger
  • Pirbright Mill, Pirbright
  • Pixham Mill, Dorking
  • Rickford's Mill, Worplesdon
  • Shalford Mill, Guildford
  • Sickle Mill, Shottermill
  • Snowdenham Mill, Bramley
  • Stanford Mill, Haslemere
  • Stoke Mill, Guildford
  • Town Mill, Guildford
  • Unwin's Mill, Old Woking
  • Upper Mill, Ewell
  • Wonersh Mill, Wonersh

Tyne and Wear[]

Path Head Water Mill, Tyne and Wear

Warwickshire[]

Wellesbourne Water Mill, Warwickshire
  • , Alcester[11]
  • , Stratford-upon-Avon[12]
  • Saxon Mill, Warwick
  • Wellesbourne Watermill, Wellesbourne

West Midlands[]

Sarehole Mill, West Midlands
  • , Sutton Coldfield[13]
  • Sarehole Mill, Hall Green, Birmingham[14]

West Sussex[]

Westhampnett Mill, West Sussex

West Yorkshire[]

Armley Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire
  • Armley Mills, Armley
  • Moorside Mills, Eccleshill
  • Thwaite Mills, Leeds
  • , Castleford

Wiltshire[]

Worcestershire[]

Forge Mill, Worcestershire

Scotland[]

Aberdeenshire[]

Mill of Benholm, Aberdeenshire

Angus[]

Barry Mill, Angus

Dumfries and Galloway[]

East Ayrshire[]

Aiket Mill, East Ayrshire

East Lothian[]

Preston Mill, East Lothian

East Renfrewshire[]

Highlands[]

Click Mill, Kingussie

Lanarkshire[]

  • ,
  • , New Lanark

Moray[]

  • Old Mills, Elgin

North Ayrshire[]

Dalgarven Mill, North Ayrshire
Giffen Mill, North Ayrshire

Orkney[]

Dounby Click Mill, Orkney

Perthshire[]

Stanley Mills, Perthshire
  • , Pitlochry
  • Keithbank Mill, Blairgowrie
  • Lower City Mill, Perth
  • Stanley Mill, Stanley

Renfrewshire[]

Meikle Millbank Mill, Renfrewshire
  • Meikle Millbank Mill, Lochwinnoch

Scottish Borders[]

Robert Small's Printing Works, Innerleithen

Shetland[]

South Ayrshire[]

Millmannoch Mill in the 18th century, South Ayrshire

Western Isles[]

West Lothian[]

Livingston Mill, Livingston

Northern Ireland[]

County Antrim[]

  • Orr's Mill, Milltown
  • Patterson's Spade Mill, Templepatrick
  • Whiggleton Mill, Kells

County Down[]

Coalisland Mill, County Down
  • , Annalong
  • , Strangford
  • Coal Island Spade Mill, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
  • , Dundonald
  • Gorticashel Flax Mill, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
  • Straid Mill, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
  • Marybrook Mills, Listooder

County Fermanagh[]

  • , Enniskillen

County Tyrone[]

Ballynasaggart, County Tyrone
  • Ballynasaggart Mill, Ballygawley
  • Ennish Mill, Dungannon
  • , Cookstown

Wales[]

Clwyd[]

King's mill, Clwyd
  • Bersham Ironworks, Bersham
  • Corn Mill, Llangollen
  • Felin Isaf, Glan Conwy
  • Gresford Mill, Gresford
  • King's Mill, Wrexham
  • Marford Mill, Rossett
  • Minera Lead Mine, Coedpoeth
  • Nant Mill, Coedpoeth
  • Penmachno Woollen Mill, Penmachno
  • Pentrifoelas Mill, Pentrefoelas
  • Rossett Mill, Rossett
  • Trefriw Woollen Mill, Trefriw

Dyfed[]

Y Felin, St Dogmaels, Dyfed

Gwent[]

Gelligroes Mill, Gwent

Gwynedd[]

  • Brynkyr Woollen Mill, Garndolbenmaen
  • Cochwillan Mill, Talybont
  • Felin Faesog, Clynnog Fawr
  • , Llanddeusant
  • National Slate Museum, Llanberis
  • Pant-yr-Ynn Mill, Blaenau Ffestiniog

Mid Glamorgan[]

  • , Llangynwyd
  • Pentre Mill, Pentre

Powys[]

  • , Montgomery
  • Felin Crewi, Penegoes
  • , Talgarth[17]

South Glamorgan[]

Esgair Moel, South Glamorgan
  • Deheufryn Gorse Mill, St Fagans
  • Esgair Moel, St Fagans
  • Melin Bompren, St Fagans
  • Rhayader Tannery, St Fagans
  • Tŷ'n Rhos Sawmill, St Fagans

West Glamorgan[]

Channel Islands[]

Guernsey[]

Jersey[]

Le Moulin de Quétivel, Jersey
  • Moulin de Lecq, La Greve de Lecq
  • Quetivel Mill,
  • Tesson Mill, St Peter's Valley

Isle of Man[]

Groudle Glen, Isle of Man

See also[]

  • Mills on the River Wey and its tributaries
  • List of windmills in the United Kingdom
  • Windmill
  • Windpump
  • Tide Mill

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Watermills and Windmills". Hungerford Virtual Museum. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Eddington Mill". Hungerford Virtual Museum. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  3. ^ Walk Mill Official Website
  4. ^ Boot Mill Official Website
  5. ^ Gleaston Watermill Official Website
  6. ^ Heron Corn Mill Official Website
  7. ^ Little Salkeld Watermill Official Website
  8. ^ "Hembury Mill Cottages". Bridport Holiday Cottages. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  9. ^ Gayle Mill official website
  10. ^ Daniels Mill Official Website
  11. ^ Arrow Millofficial website
  12. ^ Charlecote Mill official website
  13. ^ New Hall Mill official website
  14. ^ Sarehole MillOfficial Website Archived 2010-04-03 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ Canmore Scottish national database record
  16. ^ Preston Mill Official Website
  17. ^ Talgarth Mill Official Website

Bibliography[]

  • Martin Watts: Watermills, Shire Publications Ltd, UK, 2006
  • Jim Woodward-Nutt & Jenny West: Mills Open, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, UK, 1997
  • Neil Wright (Ed), Lincolnshire's Industrial Heritage, Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, UK 2004, ISBN 0 903582 20 1

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