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According to Domesday Book, Ringwood's mill was quite profitable, paying 22s in revenue.

Looking north-westwards from Lower Yonderover Farm, with hay-bales in Mill House paddock (foreground) and the sign for the Star Inn (centre), the River Brit skirts the edge of the meadow

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.

The mill pond at Ickham, on the east bank of the Little Stour, is crossed by this seemingly fragile footbridge whose supporting piles serve as a useful trap for waterweeds and other detritus before the

One of the college's more interesting pupils was Joseph Wright who had begun working at Salt's Mill, Saltaire when he was just seven years old.

The small rural hamlet of Corey's Mill, now completely absorbed into the New Town of Stevenage, was once dominated by its windmill, which burnt down in 1878.

The mill lurks behind the attractive cottages in the foreground.

This picture of it was taken in West Mills, where the tower and west door suddenly loom large between tightly packed houses and cottages.

This is the junction with Mill Lane (left of centre) beside Roadstead House (right). Seahill Lane bends to the right, towards Seatown.

This post mill was moved to here from Aldringham in 1922, and was altered to drive a waterpump to provide water supplies for a holiday village. The house in the clouds conceals a water storage tank.

Apart from a plethora of now silent industrial mills, now mostly put to other uses, the steep lanes of Nailsworth are lined with the cottages of former cloth workers. The streets are steep.

It was wool and brewing that put Romsey on the map; several mills were established on the picturesque streams and watercourses of the River Test, which is fed by clear springs under the chalk soil and

., situated on the Roche, and is one of the chief seats of the flannel and woollen industry and has also many large cotton-mills'.

One of the college's more interesting pupils was Joseph Wright who had begun working at Salt's Mill, Saltaire when he was just seven years old.

This is the junction with Mill Lane (left of centre) beside Roadstead House (right). Seahill Lane bends to the right, towards Seatown.

The Windmill c1955 The large brick-built tower-mill still stands. It dates from 1817.

Marconi's New Street factory was the first purpose-built radio-works in the world.When the previous premises - a former mill in Hall Street - became too cramped, this building was constructed on a former

This former ancient tide mill, sited to the south of Dell Quay and at the head of the Bosham Channel, today stands alongside the Bosham Yacht Club quay, and is the haunt of many yachtsmen who enjoy the

spade, shovel and spindle manufacturers; George Ward & Co, who were spindle manufacturers for the worsted, cotton, flax and silk industries; scythe and sickle makers; a chemical works and a corn mill

On the right is St Mary's parish church, in the centre the Grammar School, and to the left Church Mill, demolished in 1969, the last of many Richmond watermills once powered by the

Much of St Mary's church, behind the mill, was used as a private house after the Dissolution; the ivy-covered remains of part of it can be seen here, attached to the right of the church.

Crow Mill on the River Sence was recorded around the mid 12th century; we see it here in a picturesque meadowland setting.

Saltaire owes its existence to Sir Titus Salt, who moved his alpaca and mohair mills here in the 1850s. Sir Titus was convinced that his workers needed a healthier environment to live and work in.