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This post mill is one of Suffolk's best-known tourist attractions. The brick round house and wooden mill date from 1796, with Victorian alterations.

The brick tower mill was built in c1820 to replace an earlier mill. It was damaged by storms in 1948 and repaired in 1950, when a gallery was added to the cap.

Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.

Marsh Mill, built by Bold Fleetwood Hesketh, is now the only working windmill in the Fylde. Alongside the mill was T Kirkham's blacksmith's shop; horses were brought here through Atkinson's fields.

With nine mill sites in the town, many enterprises used water to power the machinery necessary for their businesses — corn, paper, and cloth-fulling mills, saw mills, and tanneries.

The Mill stood to the south of Rochford on the tidal estuary of the River Roach. Many mills existed along the tidal arms of the sea fingering into Essex which provided easy transport by water.

Nearby is Eling Tide Mill, the only surviving tide mill in the world still producing flour on a daily basis.

At the time of the Industrial Revolution there were cotton and bobbin mills here providing work for hundreds of operatives. Low Mill has been converted into flats.

This is a tall brick tower mill with a large extension grafted onto it to house a steam-driven mill. It had eight sails, as we can see from the eight-armed cross on the windshaft.

This is the 18th-century water mill that belonged to Isaac Clover & Sons. The mill is four storeys high, with a central hoist and weather-boarding over the timber frame.

This waterfall just south of School Lane had a race feeding the waterwheel of Ashworth Fulling Mill, which was to the right.

Only two sails were on the mill at this time. The white tailpole was used to turn the body of the mill so that the sails pointed into the wind. It was built about 1720, and ceased work in 1897.

The new mill was built around 1800 to take advantage of the Grand Union Canal's Wendover Arm or branch canal that opened in 1797.

Lord's Mill was one of the main watermills along the Chess south-east of Chesham and is behind the photographer who is looking over the Moor Lane bridge parapet.

A product of the increasing urbanisation of Dinas Powis at the close of the 19th century, Mill Road preserves the name of the nearby Mill Farm.

The Town Mill was built on the site of a Saxon mill.

Denver Mill is a tall brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. The brickwork is rendered all over to assist with weather protection.

In the distance is a corn-grinding post mill (centre left), possibly owned at this time by a Mr Mallett, whose worry was that the building of houses nearby would keep the wind from the mill's sails

Nearby is Eling Tide Mill, the only surviving tide mill in the world still producing flour on a daily basis.

The two houses on the left were owned by Spicer Brothers, who owned the paper mill, and were called Orps Mill Cottages. In 1878, they were insured for £210 and the fuel houses for £40.

A delightful close-up view of a typical Kentish windmill; this one is an octagonal white-boarded smock mill. The mill was built in1869.

Another view of the mill, showing the attractive double fronted mill manager's house. Note the large haystack in the centre foreground.

This is a brick tower mill with four patent sails and winded by a fantail. The sail frames are empty, the shutters are removed.

In the mill door stands the miller or his assistant.