Mills in Wessex
Many of the surviving Wessex mills are open to the public, but please check their advertised times before visiting.
More information about Wessex mills is available in the collections of the Mills Archive and the Library of the University of Kent.
Mills in Devon
- Bicclescombe Mill (water), Ilfracombe
- Bickleigh Mill (water)
- Bridge Mill (water), Bridgerule
- Brimpts Tin Mine (water), on Brimpts Farm, Dartmoor
- Clyston Mill (water), Broadclyst
- Coldharbour Mill (water), Uffculme
- Cricklepit Mill (water), Exeter
- Docton Mill (water), Hartland
- Finch Foundry (water), Sticklepath
- Hele Mill (water), near Ilfracombe
- Kelly Mine (water), Lustleigh
- Lapford Mill (water)
- Manor Mill (water), Branscombe
- Morwellham Quay waterwheels
- Otterton Mill (water)
- Sidbury Mill (water) and gallery, near Honiton
- Town Mill (water), Totnes
- Water mills of Exeter by David Cornforth
- Devon windmills on Windmill World web site
Mills in Dorset
- Cann Mills (water), Shaftesbury
- Castleton Water Pump and Museum
- Mangerton Mill (water), near Bridport
- Place Mill (water), Christchurch
- Sturminster Newton Mill (water)
- Town Mill (water), Lyme Regis
- Upwey Mill (water), near Weymouth
- Whitemill (water), Sturminster Marshall
- Dorset windmills on Windmill World website
- Dorset Windmills Website
Mills in Somerset
- Ashton Mill (wind), Chapel Allerton
- Bishops Lydeard Mill (water), Taunton
- Burcott Mill (water), Wookey
- Clapton Mill (water), near Crewkerne
- Claverton water-powered pumping station
- Dunster Mill (water)
- Gants Mill (water), Bruton
- Hestercombe Mill (water), near Taunton
- Hinton Farm Mill (water), near Chard
- Hornsbury Mill (water), near Chard
- Little Norton Mill (water), Norton-sub-Hamdon
- Town Mills, Milverton (water), near Taunton. Also on Facebook - search Milverton Watermill
- Nimmer Mill (water), near Chard
- Orchard Mill (water), Williton (also home of the Bakelite Museum)
- Piles Mill (water), Allerford
- Pitt Mill (water), Roadwater, near Watchet
- Priston Mill (water), near Bath
- Rowlands Mill (water), near Ilminster
- Saltford Brass Mill (water), near Bristol
- Simonsbath Sawmill (water), on Exmoor
- Somerton Mill (water)
- Stembridge Mill (wind), High Ham
- Wookey Hole Mill (water), near Wells
- Somerset windmills on Windmill World web site
Mills in Wiltshire
- Wilton Mill (wind), near Marlborough
- Wiltshire windmills on Windmill World web site
- Wiltshire watermills on Windmill World web site
Bibliography of Wessex mills
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This list of books and pamphlets is based upon the holdings of the British Library, with some additions. Further suggestions are welcome: please contact us.
Many of these publications are available from the Mills Archive Trust shop. |
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A list of journal articles is also available, in PDF format. To read this you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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- Finch Brothers foundry, Sticklepath, Okehampton, Devon / by John Kenneth Major (1967)
- The floss on the mill: the re-awakening of a watermill [Otterton Mill] / by Desna Greenhow (Hobnob Press, 2004)
- Memories from the mill: a collection of historical items of the hamlet of Hele which lies on the junctions of the parishes of Bradninch, Silverton and Broadclyst near Exeter in Devon / compiled by Paddy Nash (Paddy Nash, 2005) x, 165p.
- North Devon watermills / edited by Josephine Thorpe (North Devon Archaeological Society, 1989) 68p.
- Tide mills of Devon and Cornwall / by Walter Minchinton (Exeter Industrial Archaeology Group, 1971) 43p. (Exeter papers in industrial archaeology, no.2)
- The watermills of Tiverton / by Barbara Keene, Dot Butler, Martin Bodman (Leat, 2004) 84p.
- Water mills and other water powered sites in Devon / by Martin Bodman (unpublished, copies in the West Country Studies Library, Exeter, and the Devon & Exeter Institution Library, Cathedral Close, Exeter)
- Windmills of Devon / by Walter Minchinton (Exeter Industrial Archaeology Group, 1977) 56p. (Exeter papers in industrial archaeology, no.7)
Dorset
- Discover Dorset mills / by Peter Stanier (Dovecote Press, 2000) 80p.
- From watermills to waterworks at Christchurch / by G.M. Dear (Bournemouth Local Studies Publications, 1978) [5], 41p.
- Place Mill: an account of the restoration of a Saxon watermill / by Frank Tyhurst; incorporating The Christchurch miller's boy: memories of the mills in Christchurch / by Reginald Cox (Christchurch Borough Council, 2000), 36p
- The Town Mill, Lyme Regis: archaeology and history, AD 1340-2000 / by Alan Graham, Jo Draper, Martin Watts (Town Mill Trust, 2005) 116p.
- A thousand years of milling: the Town Mill, Lyme Regis / by Martin Watts (Town Mill Trust, 2005) 35p.
Somerset
- Ashton windmill: a brief history and guide / W.G. Hall (Sedgemoor District Council, 2006) 16p.
- Claverton Pumping Station: a definitive study / edited by Warwick Danks (Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, 2003) 67p.
- Dunster watermill: its history, its repair and how it all works / by Arthur Capps (Dunster Watermill, 2008), 23p.
- Mill 364: paper making at St Cuthbert's / by Brian Luker (St Cuthbert's Mill, 1991) 79p.
- Mills and watercourses of the Upper Axe: from Wookey Hole to Bleadney / by Brian Luker (Wookey Local History Group, 1991), 56p.
- Mills around Wiveliscombe: watermill sites on the upper River Tone and Hillfarrance Brook / by Martin Bodman. (Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society, 2000) 48p. (SIAS survey, no.12)
- Mills of the Isle and its tributaries / by Derrick Warren. (Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society, 2001) 84p. (SIAS survey, no.15)
- Mills on the Land Yeo / by Martin Bodman (Nailsea and District Local History Society, 1989) 18p. Also freely available in PDF format
- Mills on the Land Yeo: further discoveries / by Ruth Poole, Norma Knight, Phyllis Horman, Wilfred Rew, Jane Lilly (Nailsea and District Local History Society, 1994) 14p. Also freely available in PDF format
- Old Wraxall mill / by Phyllis Horman, Wilfred Rew (Nailsea and District Local History Society, 2003) 6p. Also freely available in PDF format
- The Parish of Wookey: a new history / by Joan Hasler and Brain Luker (Wookey Local History Group, 1997) 293p. [includes extensive material on Wookey mills]
- Somerset windmills / by Martin Watts (Agraphicus Publications, 1975) [1], 14p.
- Wiltshire and Somerset woollen mills / by Kenneth Rogers. (Pasold Research Fund, 1976) 265p. (Pasold publications, vol.5)
- Windmills of Somerset: and the men who worked them / by Alfred Coulthard and Martin Watts (Research Publishing, 1978) 89p.
Wiltshire
- A history of South Newton water mill / by Nigel Lampard (Nigel Lampard, 1998) 52p.
- Wiltshire and Somerset woollen mills / by Kenneth Rogers. (Pasold Research Fund, 1976) 265p. (Pasold publications, vol.5)
- Wiltshire windmills / by Martin Watts (Wiltshire County Council Library and Museum Service, 1980) 48p.