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Until 1964, Mill Lane was a picturesque street of brick and half-timbered cottages, some of them medieval.

Agriculture dominated the village until the end of the 17th century, when Arkle Beck was harnessed for cotton mills. Low Mill, which only closed in 1970, was claimed to be the oldest in the country.

We are looking along Mill Hill Road from the Shippons, a large public house in Thigwall Road.

It was only a mile away that George Fox, the Quaker, stood on the 'nick' of Pendle in 1652 and declared himself moved to start a religious order, the Society of Friends.

This is a typical Suffolk brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. The mill was used as the subject of a TV interlude film in 1950s, and was watched by millions of viewers.

Taken from a position slightly further east, this tranquil photograph shows Arundel Mill. The building is recorded as passing in 1585 to one Richard Arundel, who died in 1601.

The mainstay of Galgate villagers from 1790 to 1960 was the silk mill, where 400 people worked during the mill's heyday.

In contrast to the rest of Corfe Mullen, the lower part of the village around St Hubert's Church has changed very little, and the Old Mill even less.

Sydling Water runs here in a section elevated as a former mill leet beside Waterside Lane (left). This is locally known as Back Lane, and leads to Waterside Path.

The mill ceased working in 1937, and was derelict by 1950. In 1975 the Fulbourn Mill Society purchased it, and since then it has been carefully restored.

On the left are convalescent cotton mill workers; but as mills closed all over Lancashire, the building closed as a convalescent home and was bought by Wyre Borough Council to be their Civic Centre—it

Before the deepening of the channel to Ipswich, ships stopped at Butterman's Bay to be unloaded into barges from Pin Mill.

The Abbey Mill was originally a corn and fulling mill. The unusual 13th-century gabled chimney of the Checker (or Exchequer) building can be seen behind the old stone cottages in Thames Street.

Sandford Mill, originally built by the Knights Templar in the 13th century, once ground corn. It became a paper mill producing paper for Oxford University.

Along the crest of the hill are the homes of the mill owners, while the workers' houses and the mills themselves were positioned in the valley bottom.

This is a fine old Cambridgeshire smock mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail; it was built in 1808, and ceased work in 1937.

This is a small Kentish-type smock mill with a six-sided black weatherboarded body and a hexagonal single-storey brick base with a staging.

Along the crest of the hill are the homes of the mill owners, while the workers and the mills themselves were positioned in the valley bottom.

This photograph shows Little Green with Hall Water Mill on the left side. The name Melford probably derived from 'mill on the ford'.

Felsted had two watermills at the time of the Domesday survey, and it is likely that Felsted Mill and Hartford End Mill are on the same two sites.

To the right of it is the entrance to Botley Mills, an 18th-century mill complex, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

The stream ran down from Pen Hill through this pond to provide motive power for the corn mill over the road and below the Heifer Inn.

Marsh Windmill is a large Fylde-type brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. Dated 1794, it worked until 1922.

This mid 18th-century post mill has 'I Swan 1749', 'W Bedwell' and 'John Swan 1754' carved on the beams. The mill was restored in 1966-68.