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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 wind mill 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.

Kingsbury Watermill Museum, St Albans

Contents

England

Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

Cornwall

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

Dorset

Durham

Essex

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Hertfordshire

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

London

Norfolk

Northumberland

Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire

Shropshire

Somerset

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

Sussex, East

Sussex, West

Tyne and Wear

Warwickshire

Wiltshire

Yorkshire, North

Yorkshire, South

Yorkshire, West

  • Armley Mill, Armley
  • Scarcroft Watermill
  • Thwaite Mills, Leeds

Worcestershire

Scotland

Angus

Dumfries and Galloway

  • New Abbey Mill, New Abbey,

East Lothian

Orkney

  • Barony Mills, Birsay
  • Dounby Click Mill, Dounby

North Ayrshire

Perthshire

Shetland

Western Isles

Northern Ireland

County Down

County Fermanagh

County Tyrone

  • Wellbrook Beetling Mill, Corkstown

Wales

Anglesey

Cardigan

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Glamorgan

Gwynedd

Powys

Channel Islands

Jersey

  • Quetivel Mill, St Peter's Valley

Isle of Man

See also

External links

Categories: Geography of the United Kingdom | Watermills in the United Kingdom | Lists of buildings and structures in the United Kingdom

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