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.

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

• 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

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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

• 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

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^[5]
• 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
• 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

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

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

• 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

Scotland

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

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

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

See also

• List of windmills
• Windmill
• Windpump
• Tide Mill

References

Further reading

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

External links

• A catalogue tide mills by county