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In common with other mills in the area, it is a post mill, with the mill revolving round the central post.

The mill is just south of the village on the Birkey Burn. The miller's house is dated 1728, and the three-storey mill building is also 18th-century.

Witchampton's flour mill closed before the Second World War, but the remains of the huge mill wheel, including its tree trunk shaft, can still be seen outside Flour Mill House.

This is a tranquil sight on a sunny day, with the mill reflected in the peaceful water and myriads of buttercups flowering in the grass.

There has been a mill at Alderholt for generations; as with so many mills in southern England, this one was used for its original purpose until recently - in historic terms.

Here on the north side is the widened section of the mill race, which was built to drive the village mill wheel - the mill itself is now domestic accomodation.

At one time just under half of Surrey's settlements had at least one mill; by the 1830s there were 47 working mills in Surrey.

This is Old Durrington wind- mill, photographed at a time when the site was used as a tea garden. Only two sails were on the mill at this time.

Looking south from Lords Mill in Chesham Moor on Waterside little is recognisable now: indeed the mill itself finally went in 1988, although the miller's seventeenth century cottage remains.

Along Station Lane, westwards out of Offord Cluny, the mill is silhouetted against the skyline.

On the corner of Kings Mill Lane, some timber-framed cottages are built gable-end to the street.

This terrace of almost picturesque millworkers' cottages now sits quietly, adjacent to the isolated and decaying great water wheels which once powered the mills.

Facing us is Abbey Mill, whose origins date back eight centuries to the time when monks from the Benedictine monastery diverted the River Avon to power the mill to grind the corn that made their daily

This is the largest smock mill in Cambridgeshire. It was built for William Huckle in 1828; in the 1890s the mill was bought by Charles Cattell, and it is known as Cattell's mill to this day.

This mill stood on the Pippbroook, a tributary of the Mole, but has now been demolished. It was one of six mills on the little Pippbrook alone. The next mill downstream was at Westcott itself.

Though the present building is mostly 17th-century, a mill has existed on this site since Domesday.

Apart from the battle, Powick's other main claim to fame is Powick Mills next to the bridge where the battle took place.

This is a fine old Sussex downland post mill with a domesticated structure enclosing the trestle.

This is an East Anglian-style post mill with a white-painted weatherboarded body, four spring patent shuttered sails and winded manually by a tailpole.

The mill was built in 1857 on the site of an earlier post mill. The mill was worked by the Foster family until 1946.

Formerly there were at least three mills - one of them was a paper mill - including this corn mill, which worked until the First World War.

In 1980 Trafalgar Mill, by now part of the Illingworth Morris combine, ceased production in what The Examiner dubbed a 'Sign of the times … an empty mill'.

In common with other mills in the area, it is a post mill, with the mill revolving round the central post.

Hurt Wood Mill is a small brick tower mill with four patent sails and a fantail. It is located on a remote hilltop surrounded by woodland. The mill has now been converted into a private house.