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

Bowman's Watermill, Astwick
Broham Watermill, Broham
Clophill Watermill, Clophill
Stotfold Watermill, Stotfold
The Olde Watermill, Barton-le-Clay

Berkshire

Abbey Mill, Reading
Calcot Mill, Reading

Buckinghamshire

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

Cambridgeshire

Hinxton Mill, Hinxton
Houghton Mill, Houghton
Lode Watermill, Lode
Sacrewell Mill, Peterborough
Soham Mill, Soham

Cheshire

Bunbury Mill, Bunbury
Dunham Massey Sawmill, Altrincham
Nether Alderley Mill, Macclesfield
Quarry Bank Mill, Styal
Stretton Watermill, Stretton
Trafford Mill, Mickle Trafford, Chester
Walk Mill, Waverton, Cheshire^[1] Built 2008

Cumbria

Acorn Bank Mill, Penrith
Boot Watermill, Eskdale Official Website
Gleaston Water Mill, Ulverston^[2]
Heron Corn Mill, Milnthorpe^[3]
Little Salkeld Watermill, Penrith^[4]
Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Ulverston

Derbyshire

Devon

Dorset

Castleton Water Wheel Museum, Sherborne
Mangerton Mill, Bridport
Sturminster Newton Mill, Sturminster Newton
Town Mill, Lyme Regis
White Mill, Sturminster Marshall
Upwey Mill, Weymouth
Maiden Newton Mill, Maiden Newton
Pegg's Farm Mill, Iwerne Minster

Durham

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

Essex

Bourne Mill, Colchester

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Thorrington Tide Mill, Thorrington
Alderford Mill, Sible Hedingham
Beeleigh Mill, [Maldon, Essex]

Gloucestershire

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

Hampshire

Hertfordshire

Isle of Wight

Calbourne Mill, Calbourne]

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
- Stour watermills

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Claybrooke Mill
Mill On The Soar, Broughton Astley
Shepshed Watermill

Lincolnshire

Alvingham Mill, Alvingham
Cogglesford Mill, Sleaford
Claythorpe Mill, Aby
Tealby Mill, Tealby

Nottinghamshire

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

Oxfordshire

Shropshire

Daniels Mill, Bridgnorth^[5]
Upton Mill, Little Hereford, Shropshire.

Somerset

Wookey Hole Paper Mill

Bishop's Lydeard Mill, Bishops Lydeard
Burcott Mill, Burcott, Somerset
Claverton Pumping Station, Claverton
Combe House Hotel (originally a tannery) Holford
Dunster Working Watermill, Dunster
Gants Mill, Pitcombe
Hornsbury Mill, Chard
Saltford Brass Mill, Saltford
Wookey Hole Paper Mill, Wells

Staffordshire

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

Suffolk

The Mill Hotel, Sudbury

Surrey

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

East Sussex

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

West Sussex

Tyne and Wear

Path Head Watermill, Blaydon

Warwickshire

Arrow Mill, Arrow, Alcester^[6] Hotel with waterwheel in restaurant.
Charlecote Mill, Stratford-upon-Avon^[7]
Wellesbourne Watermill, Wellesbourne

West Midlands

New Hall Mill, Sutton Coldfield^[8]
Sarehole Mill, Hall Green, Birmingham^[9]

Wiltshire

Coleshill Mill, Swindon

North Yorkshire

Darley Mill Centre, Nidderdale
Fountains Abbey Mill, Ripon
Gayle Mill, Hawes, Wensleydale^[10]
Howsham Mill, Malton
Pateley Bridge Watermill, Nidderdale
Raindale Mill, York
Tocketts Mill, Guisborough
Low Mill, Bainbridge, Wensleydale

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

Armley Mills, Armley
Scarcroft Watermill
Thwaite Mills, Leeds

Worcestershire

Churchill Forge Mill, Churchill
Fladbury Watermill, Worcestershire

Scotland

Aberdeenshire

Benholm Mill, Benholm near Johnshaven, Kincardineshire

Angus

Barry Mill, Carnoustie

Dumfries and Galloway

New Abbey Mill, New Abbey,

East Ayrshire

East Lothian

Preston Mill, East Linton

East Renfrewshire

Knowes Mill

Lanarkshire

New Lanark Mill, New Lanark
Carmichael Mill, Hyndford Bridge

Orkney

Barony Mills, Birsay
Dounby Click Mill, Dounby

North Ayrshire

Dalgarven Mill

Giffen Mill

Millmannoch Mill in the 18th century

Perthshire

Blair Athol Mill, Pitlochry

Shetland

Crofthouse Museum, Dunrossness

South Ayrshire

Moray

Old Mills, Elgin

Western Isles

Siabost Mill, Lewis

Northern Ireland

County Down

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

County Fermanagh

Florence Court Sawmill, Enniskillen

County Tyrone

Wellbrook Beetling Mill, Cookstown

Wales

Anglesey

Melin Howell, Llanddeusant

Cardigan

Y Felin Mill at St. Dogmaels - a fully working water mill

Carmarthenshire

Crugybar Watermill
National Woollen Museum, Newcastle Emlyn

Ceredigion

Dyfi Furnace
Llywernog Silver Lead Mine Museum, Aberystwyth
Rock Mill, Llandysul
Felin Ganol Watermill, Llanrhystud.

Glamorgan

Gelligroes Mill, Caerphilly
Cardiff: St Fagans - Working
Y Felin Dolwys, Parkmill
Melin Pontrhydycyff, Llangynwyd

Gwynedd

National Slate Museum, Llanberis

Pembrokeshire

Carew Castle tide mill
Pembroke tide mill
Treffgarne Gorge - a part-working water mill

Powys

Bacheldre Mill, Montgomery
Talgarth Mill, Talgarth^[11]

Channel Islands

Jersey

Quetivel Mill, St Peter's Valley

Isle of Man

References

External links

A catalogue tide mills by county

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