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 wind mill 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 small number have been preserved or restored as museums where the public can see the mill in operation.

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

Contents 1 England 1.1 Berkshire 1.2 Buckinghamshire 1.3 Cambridgeshire 1.4 Cheshire 1.5 Cornwall 1.6 Cumbria 1.7 Derbyshire 1.8 Devon 1.9 Dorset 1.10 Durham 1.11 Essex 1.12 Gloucestershire 1.13 Hampshire 1.14 Hertfordshire 1.15 Kent 1.16 Lancashire 1.17 Leicestershire 1.18 Lincolnshire 1.19 London 1.20 Norfolk 1.21 Northumberland 1.22 Nottinghamshire 1.23 Oxfordshire 1.24 Shropshire 1.25 Somerset 1.26 Staffordshire 1.27 Suffolk 1.28 Surrey 1.29 Sussex, East 1.30 Sussex, West 1.31 Tyne and Wear 1.32 Warwickshire 1.33 Wiltshire 1.34 Yorkshire, North 1.35 Yorkshire, South 1.36 Yorkshire, West 1.37 Worcestershire 2 Scotland 2.1 Angus 2.2 Dumfries and Galloway 2.3 East Lothian 2.4 Orkney 2.5 North Ayrshire 2.6 Perthshire 2.7 Shetland 2.8 Western Isles 3 Northern Ireland 3.1 County Down 3.2 County Fermanagh 3.3 County Tyrone 4 Wales 4.1 Anglesey 4.2 Cardigan 4.3 Carmarthenshire 4.4 Ceredigion 4.5 Glamorgan 4.6 Gwynedd 4.7 Powys 5 Channel Islands 5.1 Jersey 6 Isle of Man 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] England

[edit] Berkshire

• Abbey Mill, Reading
• Calcot Mill, Reading

[edit] Buckinghamshire

• Ford End Mill, Ivinghoe
• Hambleden Mill, Mill End
• Pann Mill, High Wycombe

[edit] Cambridgeshire

• Hinxton Mill, Hinxton
• Houghton Mill, Houghton
• Lode Watermill, Lode
• Soham Mill, Soham

[edit] Cheshire

• Bunbury Mill, Bunbury
• Dunham Massey Sawmill, Altrincham
• Nether Alderley Mill, Macclesfield
• Quarry Bank Mill, Styal
• Stretton Watermill, Stretton

[edit] Cornwall

• Cotehele Mill, Saltash
• Crumplehorn Watermill, Polperro
• Melinsey Mill, Veryan
• Trewey Mill, Zennor
• Wheal Martin, St Austell

[edit] Cumbria

• Acorn Bank Mill, Penrith
• Boot Watermill, Eskdale
• Gleaston Watermill, Ulverston
• Heron Corn Mill, Milnthorpe
• Little Salkeld Watermill, Penrith
• Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Ulverston

[edit] Derbyshire

• Arkwrights Mill, Cromford
• Caudwells Mill, Rowsley
• Masson Mill, Matlock Bath
• Stainsby Mill, Chesterfield
• Lumsdale Mills, Matlock

[edit] Devon

• Clyston Mill, Broadclyst
• Coldharbour Mill, Cullompton
• Docton Mill, Hartland
• Finch Foundry, Okehampton
• Manor Mill, Seaton
• Morwellham Quay, Tavistock
• Otterton Mill, Budleigh Salterton

[edit] Dorset

• Castleton Water Wheel Museum, Sherborne
• Mangerton Mill, Bridport
• Sturminster Newton Mill, Sturminster Newton
• Town Mill, Lyme Regis
• White Mill, Sturminster Marshall

[edit] Durham

• Brignall Mill, River Greta
• Killhope Wheel, Weardale
• Path Head Mill, Blaydon

[edit] Essex

• Bourne Mill, Colchester
• Thorrington Tide Mill, Thorrington

[edit] Gloucestershire

• Dean Heritage Centre, Cinderford
• Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, with bolting, cleaning and winnowing machinery, dated 1728

[edit] Hampshire

• Alderholt Mill, Fordingbridge
• Eling Tide Mill, Eling
• Headley Water Mill, Headley
• Longbridge Mill, Sherfield on Loddon
• Whitchurch Silk Mill, Whitchurch
• Winchester City Mill, Winchester

[edit] Hertfordshire

• Kingsbury Watermill, St Albans
• Mill Green Watermill, Hatfield
• Redbournbury Mill, Redbourn

[edit] Kent

• Wandle Mill, Benenden
• Crabble Corn Mill, Dover
• Haxted Watermill, near Edenbridge - now a Surrey mill. (Medway)
• Chart Gunpowder Mills, Faversham
• Hever Watermill, Hever (Medway)
• Hythe Watermill, Hythe
• Swanton Mill, Mersham (Stour)
• Periwinkle Mill, Milton Regis
• Ryarsh Mill, Ryarsh (Medway)
• Ashbourne Mill, Tenterden

• See also:-
  • Medway watermills
    • Medway watermills (lower tributaries)
    • Medway watermills (middle tributaries)
    • Medway watermills (upper tributaries)
  • Stour watermills

[edit] Lancashire

• Higher Mill, Helmshore, Rossendale
• Thurnham Mill, Conder Green

[edit] Leicestershire

• Mill On The Soar, Broughton Astley

[edit] Lincolnshire

• Alvingham Mill, Alvingham
• Cogglesford Watermill, Sleaford

[edit] London

• Upper Mill, Carshalton
• Three Mills, Bromley by Bow

[edit] Norfolk

• Aldborough Watermill on Scarrow Beck
• Congham Oil Mill near Congham
• Eade’s Watermill at Great Witchingham
• Gimingham Watermill on the River Mun
• Gresham Watermill, Gresham,
• Gunton Park Sawmill, Gunton Park, North Norfolk
• Heacham Watermill
• Hempstead Watermill
• Kettle Watermill in King’s Lynn
• Letheringsett Watermill, Holt
• Mundesley Watermill on the River Mun
• Narborough Bone Mill on the River Nar, West Norfolk
• Sheringham Watermill in North Norfolk
• Snettisham Watermill
• Weybourne Watermill

[edit] Northumberland

• Heatherslaw Mill, Etal

[edit] Nottinghamshire

• Cuckney Mill, Cuckney
• Fiskerton Mill, Fiskerton
• Ollerton Mill, Ollerton
• Rufford Mill, Rufford
• Warsop Mill, Warsop

[edit] Oxfordshire

• Goring Mill, Goring-on-Thames
• Mapledurham Watermill, Mapledurham
• The Mill at Sonning, Sonning Eye

[edit] Shropshire

• Daniels Mill, Bridgnorth

[edit] Somerset

• Bishop's Lydeard Mill, Taunton
• Burcott Mill, Wookey
• Claverton Pumping Station, Claverton
• Dunster Mill, Dunster
• Gants Mill, Bruton
• Hornsbury Mill, Chard
• Saltford Brass Mill, Saltford
• Wookey Hole Paper Mill, Wells

[edit] Staffordshire

• Brindley Water Mill, Leek
• Cheddleton Flint Mill, Cheddleton
• Mosty Lea Mill, Stone
• Shugborough Estate Mill, Stafford

[edit] Suffolk

• Alton Mill, Stowmarket
• Pakenham Watermill, Bury St Edmunds
• Woodbridge Tide Mill, Woodbridge

[edit] Surrey

• Cobham Watermill, Cobham
• Haxted Watermill, near Edenbridge (Medway)
• Shalford Mill, Guildford
• See also:-
  • Medway watermills

[edit] Sussex, East

• Michelham Priory Mill, Hailsham
• Park Mill, Etchingham
• Tide Mills, Newhaven
• See also:-
  • Medway watermills

[edit] Sussex, West

• Coulterhaw Beam Pump, Petworth
• Ifield Watermill, Crawley
• Lurgashall Watermill, Singleton

[edit] Tyne and Wear

• Path Head Watermill, Blaydon

[edit] Warwickshire

• Charlecote Mill, Stratford-upon-Avon
• New Hall Mill, Sutton Coldfield
• Sarehole Mill, Hall Green, Birmingham
• Wellesbourne Watermill, Wellesbourne

[edit] Wiltshire

• Coleshill Mill, Swindon

[edit] Yorkshire, North

• Fountains Abbey Mill, Ripon
• Howsham Mill, Malton
• Pateley Bridge Watermill, Harrogate
• Raindale Mill, York
• Tockett's Mill, Guisborough

[edit] Yorkshire, South

• Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
• Shepherd Wheel, Sheffield
• Wilsons of Sharrow, Sheffield
• Top Forge, Thurgoland
• Worsbrough Mill, Barnsley

[edit] Yorkshire, West

• Armley Mill, Armley
• Scarcroft Watermill
• Thwaite Mills, Leeds

[edit] Worcestershire

• Churchill Forge Mill, Churchill
• Fladbury Watermill, Worcestershire

[edit] Scotland

[edit] Angus

• Barry Mill, Carnoustie

[edit] Dumfries and Galloway

• New Abbey Mill, New Abbey,

[edit] East Lothian

• Preston Mill, East Linton

[edit] Orkney

• Barony Mills, Birsay
• Dounby Click Mill, Dounby

[edit] North Ayrshire

• Dalgarven Mill, Kilwinning

[edit] Perthshire

• Blair Athol Mill, Pitlochry

[edit] Shetland

• Crofthouse Museum, Dunrossness
• Quendale Mill, Dunrossness

[edit] Western Isles

• Siabost Mill, Lewis

[edit] Northern Ireland

[edit] County Down

• Annalong Mill, Annalong
• Castle Ward Mills, Strangford
• Dundonald Old Mill, Dundonald

[edit] County Fermanagh

• Florence Court Sawmill, Enniskillen

[edit] County Tyrone

• Wellbrook Beetling Mill, Corkstown

[edit] Wales

[edit] Anglesey

• Melin Howell, Llanddeusant

[edit] Cardigan

• Y Felin, St Dogmaels

[edit] Carmarthenshire

• Crugybar Watermill
• National Woollen Museum, Newcastle Emlyn

[edit] Ceredigion

• Dyfi Furnace
• Llywernog Silver Lead Mine Museum, Aberystwyth
• Rock Mill, Llandysul

[edit] Glamorgan

• Gelligroes Mill, Caerphilly
• Cardiff: St Fagans - Working
• Y Felin Dolwys, Parkmill

[edit] Gwynedd

• National Slate Museum, Llanberis

[edit] Powys

• Bacheldre Mill, Montgomery

[edit] Channel Islands

[edit] Jersey

• Quetivel Mill, St Peter's Valley

[edit] Isle of Man

• Groudle Glen, Isle of Man
• Lady Isabella Waterwheel, Laxey

[edit] See also

• List of windmills
• Windmill
• Windpump
• Tide Mill
• Martin Watts: Watermills, Shire Publications Ltd, UK, 2006

[edit] External links

• A catalogue tide mills by county