1. England
    Bedfordshire  Berkshire  Buckinghamshire  Cambridgeshire  Cheshire  Cornwall  Cumbria  Derbyshire  Devon  Dorset  Durham  Essex  Gloucestershire  Hampshire  Hertfordshire  Isle of Wight  Kent  Lancashire  Leicestershire  Lincolnshire  London  Norfolk  Northamptonshire  Northumberland  Nottinghamshire  Oxfordshire  Shropshire  Somerset  Staffordshire  Suffolk  Surrey  East Sussex  West Sussex  Tyne and Wear  Warwickshire  West Midlands  Wiltshire  North Yorkshire  South Yorkshire  West Yorkshire  Worcestershire 

2. Scotland
    Aberdeenshire  Angus  Dumfries and Galloway  East Ayrshire  East Lothian  East Renfrewshire  Lanarkshire  Moray  North Ayrshire  Orkney  Perthshire  Renfrewshire  Shetland  South Ayrshire  Western Isles 

3. Northern Ireland
    County Down  County Fermanagh  County Tyrone 

4. Wales
    Anglesey  Cardigan  Carmarthenshire  Ceredigion  Denbighshire  Glamorgan  Gwynedd  Pembrokeshire  Powys  Wrexham 

5. Channel Islands
    Guernsey  Jersey 

6. Isle of Man

7. See also

8. References
    Further reading 

9. External links

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.

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."

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
• Chamberhouse Mill, Thatcham
• Hungerford Mill, Thatcham
• Watermill Theatre Bagnor

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
• Dee Mills - site of, Chester
• Dunham Massey Sawmill, Altrincham
• Nantwich Mill, Nantwich
• Nether Alderley Mill, Macclesfield
• Quarry Bank Mill, Styal
• Stretton Watermill, Stretton
• Trafford Mill, Mickle Trafford, Chester
• Walk Mill, Waverton, Cheshire^[1] Built 2008

Cornwall

• Cotehele Mill, Calstock

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

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

Devon

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

Dorset

• Castleton Water Wheel Museum, Sherborne
• Hembury Mill,^[5] Askerswell, Bridport
• Maiden Newton Mill, Maiden Newton
• Mangerton Mill, Bridport
• Pegg's Farm Mill, Iwerne Minster
• Place Mill, Christchurch
• Sturminster Newton Mill, Sturminster Newton
• Town Mill, Lyme Regis
• White Mill, Sturminster Marshall
• Upwey Mill, Weymouth

Durham

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

Essex

• Bourne Mill, Colchester
• 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
• Stanway Watermill, Stanway, Cheltenham]]

Hampshire

• Alderholt Mill, Fordingbridge
• Chesapeake Mill, Wickham, Hampshire
• Eling Tide Mill, Eling
• Headley Water Mill, Headley
• Longbridge Mill, Sherfield on Loddon
• Quay Mill, Emsworth
• Rooksbury Mill, Andover
• Sadler's Mill, Romsey
• Whitchurch Silk Mill, Whitchurch
• Winchester City Mill, Winchester
• Woodmill, Southampton

Hertfordshire

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

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
  • Medway watermills (lower tributaries)
  • Medway watermills (middle tributaries)
  • Medway watermills (upper tributaries)
  • Stour watermills

Lancashire

• Higher Mill, Helmshore, Rossendale
• Thurnham Mill, Conder Green
• Forge Bank Mill, Halton

Leicestershire

• Claybrooke Mill
• Mill On The Soar, Broughton Astley
• Shepshed Watermill

Lincolnshire

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

London

• Upper Mill, Carshalton
• Three Mills tide mill, Bromley-by-Bow

Norfolk

• Aldborough Watermill on Scarrow Beck
• Bolwick Hall Watermill on the Mermaid
• 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

Northamptonshire

• Towcester Mill

Northumberland

• Heatherslaw Mill, Etal

Nottinghamshire

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

Oxfordshire

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

Shropshire

• Daniels Mill, Bridgnorth^[6]
• Upton Mill, Little Hereford, Shropshire.
• Borle Mill, Netherton, Highley - Former 13th century Corn Mill.

Somerset

• 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

• Flatford Mill, East Bergholt
• Alton Mill, Stowmarket
• Pakenham Watermill, Bury St Edmunds
• Wickham Mill, Wickham Market
• Woodbridge Tide Mill, Woodbridge
• The Mill Hotel, Sudbury

Surrey

• Cobham Watermill, Cobham
• Abbey Mill, Eashing
• Guildford Town Mill
• Gomshall Mill, Gomshall
• Haxted Watermill, near Edenbridge (Medway)
• Paddington Mill, Abinger
• Shalford Mill, Guildford
• Stoke Mill, Guildford

East Sussex

• Bateman's Park MIll, Burwash
• Michelham Priory Mill, Hailsham
• Park Mill, Etchingham
• Tide Mills, Newhaven
• See also:-
  • Medway watermills

West Sussex

• Coultershaw Beam Pump, Petworth
• Ifield Water Mill, Crawley
• Lurgashall Watermill, Singleton
• Westhampnett Mill

Tyne and Wear

• Path Head Watermill, Blaydon

Warwickshire

• Arrow Mill, Arrow, Alcester^[7] Hotel with waterwheel in restaurant.
• Charlecote Mill, Stratford-upon-Avon^[8]
• Saxon Mill, Warwick
• Wellesbourne Watermill, Wellesbourne

West Midlands

• New Hall Mill, Sutton Coldfield^[9]
• Sarehole Mill, Hall Green, Birmingham^[10]

Wiltshire

• Coleshill Mill, Swindon

North Yorkshire

• Darley Mill Centre, Nidderdale
• Fountains Abbey Mill, Ripon
• Gayle Mill, Hawes, Wensleydale^[11]
• Howsham Mill, Malton
• Pateley Bridge Watermill, Nidderdale
• Raindale Mill, York
• Tocketts Mill, Guisborough
• Low Mill, Bainbridge, Wensleydale

South Yorkshire

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

West Yorkshire

• Armley Mills, Armley
• Scarcroft Watermill
• Thwaite Mills, Leeds
• Queen's Mill, Castleford

Worcestershire

• Churchill Forge Mill, Churchill
• Fladbury Watermill, Worcestershire
• Forge Mill, Redditch

Scotland

Aberdeenshire

• Benholm Mill, Benholm near Johnshaven, Kincardineshire

Angus

• Barry Mill, Carnoustie

Dumfries and Galloway

• Barburgh Mill, Closeburn
• Enterkin Mill
• Mennock Mill
• New Abbey Mill, New Abbey

East Ayrshire

• Aiket Mill, Dunlop
• Bloak Mill, Dunlop
• Busbie Mill, Knockentiber
• Dalmore Mill, Stair
• Dalmusternock Mill
• Drumastle Mill, Dalry
• Giffen Mill, Barrmill
• Kilmaurs Mill, Kilmaurs
• Ladeside Mill, Mauchline
• Laigh Milton Mill, Gatehead
• Lainshaw Mill, Stewarton
• Lambroch Mill, Stewarton
• Old or Commoncraigs Mill, Dunlop

East Lothian

• Knowes Mill^[12]], East Linton
• Preston Mill^[13], East Linton

East Renfrewshire

• Knowes Mill

Lanarkshire

• New Lanark Mill, New Lanark
• Carmichael Mill, Hyndford Bridge

Moray

• Old Mills, Elgin

North Ayrshire

• Bark Mill, Beith
• Broadstone Mill, Barrmill
• Cavan Mill, Auchentiber
• Coldstream Mill, Beith
• Craigmill, Dalry
• Cranshaw Mill, Kilmaurs
• Crevoch Mill, Dunlop
• Cunninghamhead Mill, Cunninghamhead
• Dalgarven Mill, Kilwinning
• Drumastle Mill, Dalry
• Drumbuie Mill, Barrmill
• East Kersland Mill, Dalry
• Giffen Mill, Barrmill
• Giffordland Mill, Dalry
• Kersland Mill, Beith
• Mill o'Beith, Beith
• Nethermill, Kilbirnie
• Perceton Mill, Irvine
• Sevenacres Mill, Kilwinning

Orkney

• Barony Mills, Birsay
• Dounby Click Mill, Dounby

Perthshire

• Blair Athol Mill, Pitlochry
• Stanley Mill, Stanley

Renfrewshire

• Meikle Millbank Mill, Lochwinnoch

Shetland

• Crofthouse Museum, Dunrossness

South Ayrshire

• Mill of Fail, Tarbolton
• Millburn Mill, Tarbolton
• Millmannoch, Drongan
• Newton or Malt Mill

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

• Cenarth Mill
• Derw Mill
• Dre-fach Felindre
• Dyfi Furnace
• Llywernog Silver Lead Mine Museum, Aberystwyth
• Rock Mill, Llandysul
• Felin Ganol Watermill, Llanrhystud.

Denbighshire

• The Corn Mill, Llangollen

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^[14]

Wrexham

• Rossett Mill, Rossett
• Marford Mill, Rossett
• The King's Mill, Wrexham
• Gresford Mill, Gresford

Channel Islands

Guernsey

• St Peter's Mill, St Peter's

Jersey

• Moulin de Lecq, La Greve de Lecq
• Quetivel Mill, St Peter's Valley
• Tesson Mill, St Peter's Valley

Isle of Man

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

See also

• List of windmills in the United Kingdom
• Windmill
• Windpump
• Tide Mill

References

Further reading

• Martin Watts: Watermills, Shire Publications Ltd, UK, 2006

External links

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060424085326/http://victorian.fortunecity.com/holbein/871/ A catalogue tide mills by county]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcXiGOVCME Video footage of Mennock Mill in Nithsdale]

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