List of horse mills

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This is a list of Horse mills that exist or are known to have existed.

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Contents 1 Belgium 2 Channel Islands 3 England 4 France 5 Scotland 6 Spain 7 Wales 8 United States 9 References 10 See also

[edit] Belgium

Province	Location	Notes
Antwerp	Antwerp	Brouwers Huis Museum

[edit] Channel Islands

Island	Location	Notes
Jersey	The Elms	A horse drawn apple crusher.
Guernsey		A horse powered cider mill is preserved at the Folk museum.

[edit] England

County	Location	Notes
Bedfordshire	Eversholt	A horse engine, now preserved at Billing Mill, Northamptonshire.
	Kensworth	A donkey wheel from Nash Farm is preserved in Luton museum and Art Gallery.
	Kensworth	There was a donkey wheel at Church End Farm.
	Woburn	a horse driven corn mill.
Berkshire	Woolley Park	A horse driven corn mill.
Buckinghamshire	Aylesbury	A horse wheel and churn are now preserved in the Science Museum (London).
Cornwall	Gwennap	A horse whim for raising ore.
	Newquay	A horse gear for driving a threshing machine is preserved at the Dairyland museum.
Cumberland	Cartmel	A horse gear is preserved at the Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal.
Derbyshire	Castleton	A horse powered ore crusher stood at NGR SK 135835.
Devonshire	Scorlinch, Clyst St. Lawrence	A horse engine.
	Weyland, Tedburn St. Mary	A horse powered mill, extant in the 1920s.
Durham	East Herrington	A horse powered mine gin.
Hampshire	Southampton	A horse powered pumping engine in the Weevil Brewery. Built by John Smeaton in 1780.
Herefordshire	Little Cowarne	A horse powered cider mill located in the oast at Little Cowarne Court.
Hertfordshire	Ashridge	A donkey wheel.
Isle of Wight	Carisbrooke	Carisbrooke Castle - a donkey wheel, extant.
Kent	Chilham	Castle - a horse wheel driving pumps.
	Burham	Great Kewlands, a dog wheel for raising water.[1]
	West Kingsdown	A horse whim, now preserved at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Sussex.}
London		A horse powered pumping engine in the Chiswell Street brewery.
Norfolk	Norwich	Catton mill - a horse and wind mill.
		Earlham Hall - a horse mill.
		Heigham - in a Tannery
		Mill Hill, Heigham - a horse and wind mill.
		Pockthorpe mill - a horse and wind mill.
	Attleborough	Great mill, - a horse and wind mill.
	Kings Lynn	Kettle mills, - a horse, wind and water mill.
	Oulton,	A horse and wind mill.
Northumberland	Berwick Hill	A horse gin built in 1814. Now preserved at Beamish Museum.
Nottinghamshire	Wollaton Hall	A horse gin built at Langton Colliery in 1844 and later used at Pinxton Colliery.
Oxfordshire	Rotherfield Greys.	Greys Court, - a National Trust property, with a donkey wheel.
	Great Tew	A horse powered corn mill.
Suffolk	Blythburgh	There was a horse wheel at Henham Hall now preserved at the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket.
	Drinkstone.	The smock mill formerly had a horse-mill in the base.
Surrey	Painshill	A horse-wheel used for raising water. In use from 1770 to the 1830s.
Sussex	Patching	A pug-mill, now preserved at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton
	Mark Cross	a pug mill in a brickyard.
Wiltshire	Broad Hinton	A donkey wheel, demolished in 1908.
	Tidworth	A horse-driven pump, working in the 1930s.
Worcestershire	Burlingham	A horse powered cider mill is preserved at Hartlebury Castle.
Yorkshire	Hutton-le-Hole	A horse mill is preserved at the Ryedale Folk Museum.
	Stillington	A horse wheel now preserved at Shibden Hall.
	Sutton	A gorse crushing mill is preserved on the village green.

[edit] France

Département	Location	Notes
Drôme	Nyons	Les Vieux Moulins à huile, a watermill and also animal powered mill.[2]
Lot	Varaire	Moulin à huile, an animal powere oil mill.[2]
Tarn	Magrin	Musée du Pastel[2]
Var	Pontevès	Moulin de Pontevès, produced olive oil.[2]
Vaucluse	Gordes	Moulin des Bouillons, produced olive oil.[2]
Vaucluse	Joucas	Le Moulin à huile, produced olive oil.[2]

[edit] Scotland

County	Location	Notes
Aberdeenshire	Gartly	A horse mill for crushing gorse for fodder
Ayrshire	Titwood Farm, Kilamurs
	Wester Kittochside, East Kilbride.	This example is at the Museum of Scottish Country Life and was recently dug out (2005) and partially restored to working condition.
Shetland	Lund Farm, Unst	A horse gin probably for powering a thresher in the barn

[edit] Spain

Province	Location	Notes
Canary Islands	Tefia, Puerto del Rosario	A donkey powered mill preserved at La Alcogida Ecomuseum

[edit] Wales

County	Location	Notes
Caernarvonshire	Dullog, Rhostryfan, Caernarfon	An oblique dog-wheel. Now preserved at the Welsh Folk Museum, St. Fagans, Cardiff
Denbighshire	Wrexham	Bersham Colliery , a reconstruction of a horse gin.
Monmouthshire	Abergavenny	A dog driven spit is preserved in the museum.
Pembrokeshire	Penysgwarne Farm, Tremarchog

[edit] United States

State	Location	Notes
Indiana	Bottorff-McCulloch Farm

[edit] References

• Animal Powered Machines, J. Kenneth Major. Shire Album 128 - Shire Publications 1985. ISBN 0-85263-710-1
• Water-mills windmills and horse-mills of South Africa, James Walton. C Struik Publishers, 1974. ISBN 0-86977-040-3

[edit] See also

• The International Molinological Society
• Museum of Scottish Country Life