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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.

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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.

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
  • Nantwich Mill, Nantwich
  • Nether Alderley Mill, Macclesfield
  • Quarry Bank Mill, Styal
  • Stretton Watermill, Stretton
  • Trafford Mill, Mickle Trafford, Chester
  • Walk Mill, Waverton, Cheshire Built 2008

    • Cumbria

  • Acorn Bank Mill, Penrith
  • Boot Watermill, Eskdale Official Website
  • Gleaston Water Mill, Ulverston
  • Heron Corn Mill, Milnthorpe
  • Little Salkeld Watermill, Penrith
  • 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
  • Manor Mill, Seaton
  • Morwellham Quay, Tavistock
  • Otterton Mill, Budleigh Salterton
  • Sidbury Mill, Sidbury

    • 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

    • Place Mill, Christchurch

    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

    • Hampshire

  • Alderholt Mill, Fordingbridge
  • Eling Tide Mill, Eling
  • Headley Water Mill, Headley
  • Longbridge Mill, Sherfield on Loddon
  • 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

    • 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
  • Upton Mill, Little Hereford, Shropshire.

    • 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
  • Gomshall Mill, Gomshall
  • Haxted Watermill, near Edenbridge (Medway)
  • Shalford Mill, Guildford

    • East Sussex

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

    • West Sussex

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

    • Tyne and Wear

  • Path Head Watermill, Blaydon

    • Warwickshire

  • Arrow Mill, Arrow, Alcester Hotel with waterwheel in restaurant.
  • Charlecote Mill, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Wellesbourne Watermill, Wellesbourne

    • West Midlands

  • New Hall Mill, Sutton Coldfield
  • Sarehole Mill, Hall Green, Birmingham

    • Wiltshire

  • Coleshill Mill, Swindon

    • North Yorkshire

  • Darley Mill Centre, Nidderdale
  • Fountains Abbey Mill, Ripon
  • Gayle Mill, Hawes, Wensleydale
  • 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

    • Aberdeenshire

  • Benholm Mill, Benholm near Johnshaven, Kincardineshire

    • Angus

  • Barry Mill, Carnoustie

    • Dumfries and Galloway

  • New Abbey Mill, New Abbey,

    • East Ayrshire

  • Aiket Mill, Dunlop
  • Bloak Mill, Dunlop
  • Busbie Mill, Knockentiber
  • Dalmore Mill, Stair
  • Dalmusternock Mill
  • Kilmaurs Mill, Kilmaurs
  • Ladeside Mill, Mauchline
  • Laigh Milton Mill, Gatehead
  • Lainshaw Mill, Stewarton
  • Lambroch Mill, Stewarton

    • 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

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

    • Perthshire

  • Blair Athol Mill, Pitlochry

    • Shetland

  • Crofthouse Museum, Dunrossness

    • South Ayrshire

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

    • Moray

  • Old Mills, Elgin

    • Western Isles

  • Siabost Mill, Lewis

    • 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

    • 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

    • Jersey

  • Quetivel Mill, St Peter's Valley

    • Isle of Man

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

    • References

    List of watermills in the United Kingdom Wikipedia
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