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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.

Kingsbury Watermill Museum, St Albans

Today only a fraction of these mills survive. Many are used as private residences, or have been converted into offices. At least one is now a whiskey distillery, and another is a gin distillery. A 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 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."
 


"Puck's Song"
Excerpt

 
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.

 

England

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Bedfordshire

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Stotfold Mill, Bedfordshire

Berkshire

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Chamberhouse Mill, Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

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Hambleden Mill, Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

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Houghton Mill, Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

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Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire

Cornwall

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Cotehele Mill, Cornwall

Cumbria

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Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Cumbria

Derbyshire

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Devon

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Dorset

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King's Mill, Dorset

Durham

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Killhope Wheel, Durham

East Sussex

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East Yorkshire

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Stamford Bridge Mill, East Yorkshire

Essex

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Bourne Mill, Essex

Gloucestershire

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Egypt Mill, Gloucestershire

Greater London

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Clock Mill, Greater London

Hampshire

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Sadler's Mill, Hampshire

Hertfordshire

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Redbournbury Mill, Hertfordshire

Isle of Wight

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Yafford Mill, Isle of Wight

Kent

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Bradley's Mill, Kent

Lancashire

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Leicestershire

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Cotes Mill, Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

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Cogglesford Mill, Lincolnshire

Norfolk

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Northamptonshire

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HardwaterMill, Northamptonshire

North Yorkshire

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Northumberland

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Ridley Mill, Northumberland

Nottinghamshire

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Oxfordshire

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Mapledurham Watermill, Oxfordshire

Shropshire

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Daniel's Mill, Shropshire

Somerset

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South Yorkshire

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Staffordshire

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Brindley Mill, Staffordshire

Suffolk

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Flatford Mill, Suffolk

Surrey

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Shalford Mill, Surrey

Tyne and Wear

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Path Head Water Mill, Tyne and Wear

Warwickshire

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West Midlands

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West Sussex

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Westhampnett Mill, West Sussex

West Yorkshire

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Armley Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire

Wiltshire

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Blackland Mill, Wiltshire

Worcestershire

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Forge Mill, Worcestershire

Scotland

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Aberdeenshire

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Mill of Benholm, Aberdeenshire

Angus

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Dumfries and Galloway

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Bobbin Mill on the Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway

East Ayrshire

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East Lothian

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Preston Mill, East Lothian

East Renfrewshire

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Highlands

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Lanarkshire

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Moray

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North Ayrshire

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Orkney

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Dounby Click Mill, Orkney

Perthshire

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Stanley Mills, Perthshire

Renfrewshire

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Meikle Millbank Mill, Renfrewshire

Scottish Borders

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Shetland

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Quendale mill, Shetland

South Ayrshire

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Millmannoch Mill in the 18th century, South Ayrshire

Western Isles

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West Lothian

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Northern Ireland

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County Antrim

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Pattersons Spade Mill, County Antrim

County Down

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Coalisland Mill, County Down

County Fermanagh

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County Tyrone

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Ballynasaggart, County Tyrone

Wales

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Clwyd

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Rossett Mill, Clwyd

Dyfed

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Y Felin, St Dogmaels, Dyfed

Gwent

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Gwynedd

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Melin Hywel, Gwynedd

Mid Glamorgan

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Powys

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Penegoes Water Mill, Powys

South Glamorgan

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Esgair Moel, South Glamorgan

West Glamorgan

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Aberdulais Tin Works, West Glamorgan

See also

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References

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Bibliography

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  • 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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