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 10,000 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. A Watt steam engine in Madrid. ... A steam engine is a heat engine that makes use of the potential energy that exists as pressure in steam, converting it to mechanical work. ... A watermill is a machine constructed by connecting a water wheel to a pair of millstones. ... Corn fields in southern Nebraska Corn can mean: In most Commonwealth countries, corn usually refers to any cereal, including, but not limited to maize In the U.S., Canada, and Australia, corn refers only to the cereal known in Commonwealth English as maize (also known as sweetcorn when removed from... Look up flour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An overshot water wheel standing 42 feet high powers the Old Mill at Berry College in Rome, Georgia A water wheel (also waterwheel, Norse mill, Persian wheel or noria) is a hydropower system; a system for extracting power from a flow of water. ... Pitstone Windmill, believed to be the oldest windmill in the British Isles A windmill is an engine powered by the energy of wind. ...

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 watermills and tide mills in the United Kingdom. Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour or lumber production, or metal shaping (rolling, grinding or wire drawing). ... A tide mill is a specialist type of water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. ...

Kingsbury Watermill Museum, St Albans

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England

• Alderley Edge Watermill, Cheshire
• Boot Watermill, Eskdale, Cumbria
• Bourne Mill, Colchester Essex
• Brindley Water Mill, Leek, Staffordshire
• Bunbury Mill, Bunbury, Cheshire
• Cheddleton Flint Mill, Cheddleton, Staffordshire
• Churchill Forge Mill, Churchill, Worcestershire
• Claverton Pumping Station, Claverton, Somerset
• Cobham Watermill, Surrey
• Cogglesford Watermill, Sleaford, Lincolnshire
• Crabble Corn Mill, Dover, Kent
• Crumplehorn Watermill, Polperro, Cornwall
• Daniels Mill, Bridgenorth, Shropshire
• Dean Heritage Centre, Cinderford, Gloucestershire

Waterwheel at the Dean Heritage Centre near Cinderford

• Docton Mill, Devon
• Eling Tide Mill, Eling, Hampshire
• Fladbury Watermill, Worcestershire
• Gants Mill, Somerset
• Gleaston Watermill, Cumbria
• Haxted Watermill, Surrey
• Headley Water Mill, Headley, Hampshire
• Hever Watermill, Hever, Kent
• Hambleden Mill, Mill End, Buckinghamshire
• Heatherslaw Mill, Etal, Northumberland
• Hornsbury Mill, Somerset
• Ifield Watermill, Crawley, West Sussex
• Killhope Wheel, Weardale, County Durham
• Kingsbury Watermill, St Albans, Hertfordshire
• Letheringsett Watermill, Norfolk
• Little Salkeld Watermill, Cumbria
• Lode Watermill, Cambridgeshire
• Lurgashall Watermill, Sussex
• Mapledurham Watermill, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire
• The Mill at Sonning, Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire
• Mill Green Watermill, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
• Mill On The Soar, Leicestershire
• Nether Alderley Mill, Nether Alderley, Cheshire
• New Hall Mill, West Midlands
• Otterton Mill, Budleigh Salterton, Devon
• Pakenham Watermill, Suffolk
• Pann Mill, Buckinghamshire
• Pateley Bridge Watermill, North Yorkshire
• Path Head Watermill, Tyne and Wear
• Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire
• Redbournbury Mill, Hertfordshire
• Ryarsh Mill, Ryarsh,Kent
• Sarehole Mill, West Midlands
• Scarcroft Watermill, West Yorkshire
• Shalford Mill, Surrey
• Soham Mill, Cambridgeshire
• Stretton Watermill, Cheshire
• Thorrington Tide Mill, Thorrington, Essex
• Three Mills, East London
• Thurnham Mill, Lancashire
• Tide Mills, East Sussex
• Town Mill, Lyme Regis, Dorset
• Wellesbourne Watermill, Warwickshire
• Whitchurch Silk Mill, Whitchurch, Hampshire
• Whitemill, Dorset
• Winchester City Mill, Winchester, Hampshire
• Woodbridge Tide Mill, Woodbridge, Suffolk
• Worsbrough Mill, South Yorkshire

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Scotland

• Dounby Click Mill, Dounby, Orkney
• New Abbey Mill, New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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Northern Ireland

• Dundonald Old Mill, Dundonald, County Down

The Moat For the Scottish peerage, see Earl of Dundonald. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Downpatrick Area: 2,448 km² Population (est. ...

Wales

• Crugybar Watermill, Carmarthenshire

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Isle of Man

• Groudle Glen, Isle of Man

See also

• List of windmills
• Windmill
• Windpump
• Tide Mill

The List of windmills is a link page for any windmill or windpump. ... Spanish windmills at La Mancha A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy, often contained in a large building as in traditional post mills, smock mills and tower mills. ... A windpump is GAY to Pontus Wall. ... A tide mill is a specialist type of water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. ...

External links

• A catalogue tide mills by county