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Corn-grinding Higher Mill (towards top left), which also produced oil, is glimpsed through the trees above a waterfall on the River Lim.

To the west of the Old Bell is Mill Lane, leading to the abbey mill which was owned by the abbey.

Part of this mill's old machinery was transferred to the windmill at Wrea Green.

Down by the beck is the 17th-century corn mill, once owned by the Neville family of Middleham Castle. The mill closed in 1930 and lay derelict until 1977.

Golden Cap rises at the centre, with tree-coverd Langdon Hill (top right) to landward.

The plentiful supply of streams and rivers provided water power for corn and cloth mills all over the Cotswolds.

Great Mill is a yellow brick tower windmill standing on a ridge, with panoramic views of the flat fenland.

Formerly one of the few eight-sailed windmills in the country, the tower is all that remains of the complex of granaries, bakery and mill house.

By the mid 1970s, the mill had stopped working, and the both the mill and barn are now private residences.

The Gower Heritage Centre in Parkmill village has the 12th-century water mill at its centre.

This is the only eight-sailed mill England, and has just (2004) had its ogee cap and sails repaired and reinstated. When working it is probably the most beautiful windmill in England.

Now we move two or three miles upstream to Colley Mill Bridge. This bridge is old and narrow, and was already controlled by traffic lights when this picture was taken.

The view looking towards the bridge to Ray Mill Island (or, as some people call it, Boulters Lock Island) is the same that Edward Gregory painted in his famous 'Boulters Lock, Sunday Afternoon' (1882

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

Broadbridge Mill is an ancient mill site by the River Arun.

Crakehall, 1 mile north of Bedale, is two villages in one - this is Little Crakehall, with its race (left) for three corn and flax mills.

This view from the top of Whitehall Park looks over the flower beds to Darwen beyond.We can make out quite a few of the mill chimneys, but not the most famous of them all, the square 300ft India Mill

Chalford shows a degree of industrialisation at odds with the rest of the Cotswolds, and its hillsides are crammed with the workplaces and residences of mill workers.

A water mill has stood here since Norman times, but this red brick corn mill dates from the early 1800s.

The stones were turned by a steam engine, hence the words 'Steam Mill' painted on the roof of the attached building. It looks in this view more like a dovecote, and was converted to a house in 1934.

This is the only eight-sailed mill England, and has just (2004) had its ogee cap and sails repaired and reinstated. When working it is probably the most beautiful windmill in England.

Alderholt Mill is situated on a tributary of the Ashford Water. We are looking northwards to the junction of lanes leading to Bullhill (left) and Alderholt Bridge in the other direction.

To the left is the Pembroke Corn Mill, a tidal mill, destroyed by fire in the 1950s.

The very tall tree in the middle distance conceals the site of Priory Mill, an old watermill.