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.

Kingsbury Watermill Museum, St Albans

This is a list of some of the surviving and demolished watermills and tide mills in the United Kingdom.

England

Bedfordshire

Stotfold Mill, Bedfordshire

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

Buckinghamshire

Hambleden Mill, Buckinghamshire

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

Cheshire

Quarry Bank Mill, 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

Cumbria

Stott Park Bobbin Mill, 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

Stainsby Mill, Derbyshire

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

Essex

Bourne Mill, Essex

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

Hampshire

Sadler's Mill, 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

Redbournbury Mill, Hertfordshire

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

Kent

Bradley's Mill, Speldhurst, 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

Norfolk

Caley Mill aka Heacham Mill, 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

Somerset

Wookey Hole Paper 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

Suffolk

Flatford Mill, 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

Shalford Mill, 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

West Sussex

Westhampnett Mill, West Sussex

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

Warwickshire

Wellesbourne Water Mill, Warwickshire

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

North Yorkshire

Gayle Mill, 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

Scotland

Angus

Barry Mill, Angus

• Barry Mill, Carnoustie

North Ayrshire

Dalgarven Mill, North Ayrshire

Giffen Mill

• 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

Renfrewshire

Meikle Millbank Mill, Renfrewshire

• Meikle Millbank Mill, Lochwinnoch

South Ayrshire

Millmannoch Mill in the 18th century, South Ayrshire

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

Northern Ireland

Wales

Cardigan

Y Felin, St Dogmaels, Cardigan

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

Glamorgan

Gelligroes Mill, Glamorgan

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

Channel Islands

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

External links

• A catalogue tide mills by county
• Video footage of Mennock Mill in Nithsdale