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The last mill burned down in 1905, though at one point there had been two mills here - one paper, one wheat. Coal, timber, lime and dung were the other major cargoes passing through.

Battle your way across or round the inner relief road that did so much damage to the town's historic fabric and cross the Maud Foster Drain into Willoughby Road, where Boston's celebrated Maud Foster Mill

The mill is situated on the Broadfleet river near Broadfleet Bridge, where tradition has it that the devil, angered at being outwitted by the Cockerham schoolmaster, left the mark of his cloven hoof.

Battle your way across or round the inner relief road that did so much damage to the town's historic fabric and cross the Maud Foster Drain into Willoughby Road, where Boston's celebrated Maud Foster Mill

These waters drove a number of watermills, such as Duck Mill and Newnham Mill, now vanished; some of them dated back to the Middle Ages.

The mill is pictured when it was still in working order. The overhanging lucam was used to hoist sacks of grain from a cart directly up into the bin floor.

The flour and malting mills on the far bank dominate this peaceful riverside scene.

Miller Bridge, once known as Mill Bridge because it linked the mills on the east of the river with the town, is one of the chief bridges across the River Kent.

Now owned by the National Trust, it is a remarkable survival of one of the first stages of the Industrial Revolution, when the new water- powered mills had to seek fast-flowing streams to power

The main road lies beyond the mill and the meadow remains unbuilt on, while the mill buildings also survive.

This track could be part of the route along which came supplies of wool for Dolphinholme Mill.

The creeper-covered wall between the iron fence and the cottage gable is in fact the dam wall for the mill. Now a silted up boggy patch, the mill pond can still be made out.

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

Hunsett Mill, near the top of the Ant, was constructed to drain the waterlogged ground to enable agricultural crops to be grown.

The main road lies beyond the mill and the meadow remains unbuilt on, while the mill buildings also survive.

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

Just outside the town stands Bliss Tweed Mills, built by George Woodhouse in 1872, whose thriving clothing business provided 700 jobs.

John Heathcoat and John Boden had a factory in Mill Street (now Market Street) making lace by powered machinery. This mill became the focus of the lacemakers' pent up anger in 1816.

Hugh Lupus, the first of the Norman earls of Chester, is said to have ordered the construction of a weir so that the mills would have a regular source of water power.

A little down-river from the city of Oxford is Iffley, with its mill lock and bridge. The water mill here dates back as far as the 11th century, and survived for almost 800 years.

The name Corless is associated with the family who lived at Springfield House, Pilling.

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.

We are at the junction of Wingrave Road on the left, which leads into Tring past the site of the old Tring silk mill, and Tringford Road on the right; the photographer is standing in Bulbourne

High up above Todmorden, half of which used to be in Lancashire, we find this small Pennine village with a surprising number of mills for its size.