List of watermills in the United Kingdom

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 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.

Kingsbury Watermill Museum, St Albans

England

Bedfordshire

Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

Dorset

Durham

Essex

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Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Hertfordshire

Isle of Wight

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

London

Norfolk

Northumberland

Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire

Shropshire

Somerset

Staffordshire

Suffolk

The Mill Hotel, Sudbury

Surrey

East Sussex

West Sussex

Tyne and Wear

Warwickshire

West Midlands

Wiltshire

North Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

Worcestershire

Scotland

Aberdeenshire

Angus

Dumfries and Galloway

East Ayrshire

East Lothian

East Renfrewshire

Lanarkshire

Orkney

North Ayrshire

Dalgarven Mill
Giffen Mill
Millmannoch Mill in the 18th century

Perthshire

Shetland

South Ayrshire

Moray

Western Isles

Northern Ireland

County Down

County Fermanagh

County Tyrone

Wales

Anglesey

Cardigan

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Glamorgan

Gwynedd

Pembrokeshire

Powys

Channel Islands

Jersey

Isle of Man

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