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Home / Arts / Architecture / History / Building Types / Mills / United Kingdom
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- Crabble Corn Mill, Dover - History and tour of this working mill built in 1812. Visitor information, events. Also a history of papermills on the River Dour.
www.invmed.demon.co.uk/mill
- English Windmills - Provides a history, description of types and operation, bibliography, photographs. By Sandra Wittman, Professor, Library Services, Oakton Community College, US.
servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/mills/mills.htm
- Findon Windmill, West Sussex - Illustrated history of this 1823 post-mill by Valerie Martin, using primary sources. Part of Findon Village Antiquities.
www.findonvillage.com/indwin.htm
- Fulbourn Windmill - A smock windmill near Cambridge built in 1808. Stopped working in 1937 and now being restored. The Fulbourn Windmill Society supply history, photographs, restoration log and calendar.
www.fulbourn.windmill.btinternet.co.uk
- Little Salkeld Watermill, Cumbria - The business site provides photographs and history of this 19th-century working mill.
www.organicmill.co.uk
- Lyme Regis Town Mill - This ancient watermill, operated by The Town Mill Trust, was restored in 2001. It contains a working grist mill, art galleries and craft studios. Description, illustrated history and visitor information.
www.townmill.org.uk
- North West Mills Group - Promotes interest in the wind and watermills of north-west England. It provides advice on conservation, encourages research and arranges talks. Photographs, descriptions and visitor information for mills in the group.
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/watermill/NWMG.htm
- Path Head Water Mill, Blaydon on Tyne - Vale Mill Trust is restoring this mill as a demonstration joiner's workshop and visitor's centre. History, restoration, photo gallery, visitor information.
www.gatesheadmill.co.uk
- Sion Mills Buildings Preservation Trust - Aims to rescue the old mills and other historic buildings of this model village in North West Ireland. Objectives, regeneration proposal for Herdmans Flax Spinning Mill, progress, history.
www.sionmills.co.uk/smbpt
- SPAB Mills Section - The UK's national organisation for anyone interested in the preservation of windmills and watermills. Part of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
www.spab.org.uk/mills
- The Mills of Cumbria - A guide to the working mills in Cumbria that are open to the public. Brief descriptions, photographs and links to official sites.
www.visitcumbria.com/mills.htm
- The Muggeridge Collection of Mill Photographs - Around 4,000 photographs of windmills in Great Britain, photographed by Donald Muggeridge 1930s-1960s, housed at the University of Kent. Online catalogue by English and Welsh counties, with some images.
library.ukc.ac.uk/library/special/html/mills
- Tide Mills in England and Wales - Jeremy Greenwood outlines their history, describes their workings with diagrams, and provides a gazetteer of those past and present in England and Wales, with links and bibliography.
jeremygreenwood.tripod.com
- Trader Windmill, Sibsey, Lincolnshire - This rare six-sailed working mill, built in 1877, is open to the public. History, photographs and visitor information, with link to location map.
www.sibsey.fsnet.co.uk/Trader_Windmill_Sibsey.htm
- Windmill World - Mark Berry's extensive illustrated site about windmills, both historical and modern, covering the UK and worldwide. Includes mills for grinding, pumping, and power generation.
www.windmillworld.com
- Windmills and How They Work - John Vince describes the development, structure and working of the principal types of windmill to be found in the British Isles.
www.garfnet.org.uk/new_mill/autumn96/jv_mill.htm
- Windmills in Essex - Essex County Council describes and illustrates the types of mill and their history in the county. Also covers mill preservation and restoration, and gives a glossary of milling terms.
www.essexcc.gov.uk/esd/planningandenvironment/historicbuildings/promotion/mills/millind.html
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