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There were a number of mills here. They took their power from the Roeburn and Hindburn, and served several industries that included nail-making, hatting, wood-turning and sawing.

This is a post mill, like the one at Saxstead; it dates from 1803, and it was moved here from nearby Aldringham in 1923.

Some of the old mills and warehouses alongside the canal have been given a new lease of life with the development of the Boat Museum.

It provided the corn and cloth mills of Chalford with the means of finding new markets for their wares until this mode of transport was superseded by the Gloucester to Swindon railway line.

The mill has since been converted into dwellings.

Ruswarp, standing at the tidal limit of the River Esk, was at one time as important a port as neighbouring Whitby, and a mill was mentioned here in the Domesday Book.

Newark's position on the Great North Road and the River Trent attracted industry including flour milling, maltings, brewing, an iron works, leather working, and even a glue factory.

At Caley Mill there is a lavender water distillery, and in late summer the fields shimmer with a deep blue.

The shop on the right with the sunshade is Hillier's Bacon Curing Company, a firm founded in 1819 by Isaac Hillier in a former Nailsworth woollen mill.

It began life in 1770, however, as an administrative building for a mill.

Only a short river, the Llinau rises about three miles upstream from the site shown here, before meeting the Tyfi. Barely a rocky stream, it appears to have produced enough power for the mill. A

This mill at Commercial End with its attached buildings started to decay in the 1930s, and by 1955 the last barge was sunk in the old fishpond. The water channels were filled in by the 1970s.

This old woollen mill was vacant and decaying in 1815 when it was taken over by John Heathcote, a lace manufacturer, who moved here from Leicester after the Luddite riots.

In 1775 a brick tower-mill was built near the crossroads by John Matchett, a Colchester millwright.

It joins the important Aire & Calder Navigation at Knottingley, where the waterway twists and turns for six miles. At Bingley, mills crowd down to the waterside.

Mills were built to harness the abundant local water supplies, but when steam power took over from water power, Sutton's industrial life waned; today it is mainly residential.

Killin mill stands on the River Dochart. Not far away is the ruined Breadalbane stronghold of Finlarig Castle. One of its more interesting features is what is thought to be an ancient beheading pit.

This is a brick tower mill with eight patent shuttered sails and a fantail.

A motor dinghy carries a boatload of adults and children past the pumping mill at Martham Staithe.

Many of the people who worked in the mills or mines lived in dilapidated cottages hidden behind the imposing three-storey buildings on the main street.

Botley Station (entrance on the left of the photograph), which is approached via Mill Hill, is well outside the village. One descends to it from a road bridge.

Water power played an important role in the development of the factory system, for it was harnessed to drive machinery in cotton and woollen mills alike.

Newlands, at the foot of the valley, formerly had a corn mill and an iron furnace.

This lane leads down to the Flatford Mill complex, now owned by the National Trust.