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

Here we see a post mill with an open trestle in its last stage of dereliction. The picture clearly shows the structural framing of a post mill with its trestle.

The mill stands on Wray Common, a brick tower mill with four patent sails winded by a fantail; it was built in 1824 and ceased work in about 1895.

Situated at the northern top of the green is the metal sign, showing a tower mill. It was erected by the Westleton Carnival Committee in 1963.

The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills. One of these was Penns Mill, operated as a wire-drawing mill by Joseph Webster from 1752.

Just downstream of Carr Wood waterfall is this smaller weir, whose race carried water via a flagstone channel under fields to the left to the Ashworth Estate corn mill.

Pictured from Highland Brow, the scene looks across the railway and the A6 to Thompson Mill, which operated as a silk mill from 1792 until 1971.

This is a fine old Sussex downland post mill with a domesticated structure enclosing the trestle. Powered by two common cloth sails, the mill was turned into the wind by means of a tailpole.

This well-known landmark is the survivor of the two mills recorded in 1575. Originally a smock mill, and rebuilt as a tower mill, it fell into disrepair during the Second World War.

The picturesque building below the cathedral (see 30730, above) is the old fulling mill, standing beside its weir.

This tower mill could be seen working from the St Ives to Cambridge train in the 1950s.

The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills. One of these was Penns Mill, operated as a wire-drawing mill by Joseph Webster from 1752.

We know from this record that a mill stood on the site now occupied by Arlington Mill Museum with its milling machinery and country bygones, although the present building is substantially 17th-century.

This branch of the river passes through the Mill Brewery, at this time owned by Linolite Limited, and on to the weir by St John`s Bridge and the Avon Mill, eventually joining the other

The owners of Gayton Flour Mill built all these properties to house their workers.

The Domesday survey does not mention a mill at Over. Even if it did, the mill would have been a watermill, as windmills did not appear in England until the mid 1100s.

This is the mill in its derelict state before John Shelmardine presented it to the National Trust, and Dr Cyril Bouchier of UMIST started restoring the mill machinery to working order.

Beside the quiet mill-pond at Flatford Mill stands Willy Lott's Cottage, instantly recognisable as the setting for Constable's famous painting 'The Hay Wain'.

A wonderful example of Victorian architecture, the Bliss Tweed Mills dominate the approach to Chipping Norton, looking more like a stately home than a factory.

Mill Street was so named because it was at the bottom of this street in 1743 that Charles Roe established his silk mill (not visible here).

John Webb, a landowner and publican, constructed this mill in 1804.

This picture was taken at about the time when Lower Neatham Mill (pictured here) was sold by the Denyers to the Ellis family of Headley Mill. They continued to produce 100% wholemeal flour.

This mill, on the river Bure, was the largest of the watermills in Norfolk.

At the end of Mill Lane, across the course of the old Somerset Coal Canal (1794-1898) and past a small 17th-century stone lock-up, is the former water mill.