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In the 17th century an earlier fulling mill, called Cannop's Mill, stood on the site.

The Old Mill 1914 'And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill'. So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester's mill.

The hamlet of New Mill grew up near the canal north of Tring around Tring Mill, now Heygate Flour.

Mill Lane is off Church Lane and leads, not unsurprisingly, to the old water mill.

This is one of two mills on the north bank of the Wharfe.

Taken opposite Lower Quemerford Mill, this view shows Marden Bridge and the Mill House on the right.

This view looks north from above the Memorial Park, with the huge Facit New Mill on the right. Built of Accrington brick, it replaced a mill demolished in 1904.

This view from the wooded heights of Harp Edge above Cromford shows Arkwright's Masson Mill in the centre of the picture, with Willersley Rocks above and the River Derwent on the right.

Barnard Castle had a fulling mill by 1316, which suggests that there was a local cloth industry, and there were three corn mills operating in the 1390s.

In Lancashire, man-made stretches of water to serve mills were often called lodges. From the lodge, a channel or 'goit' carried water to the wheel.

This is Wirral's tallest mill at 80 feet; it is constructed from materials salvaged from mills that had previously stood on the site.

Thought to have been built in the late 17th century, this fine old mill house, once one of ten in the Ramsbury area, was turned into a dwelling as late as the 1960s.

There has been a tide mill here since at least the 12th century, although the present building dates from c1793.

'And laughs the immortal river still/Under the mill, under the mill'. So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester's mill. The river may well be immortal, but the mill certainly was not.

'And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill'. So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester's mill. The river may well be immortal, but the mill certainly was not.

The Cloth Mills 1907 A mile west of Wellington, Westford was a mill village with large cloth mills along the River Tone.

This pair of windmills stand on Outwood Common: a post mill with four double-shuttered spring sails and a roundhouse protecting the trestle, and also a tall weatherboarded smock mill.

Maiden Newton's mill spent a number of years in the 20th century as a carpet factory, in the same way that many of Dorset's old mill buildings had to find new uses in the modern age.

East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker towards houses beside East Road (centre).

Backbarrow Cotton Mill was notorious for its cruel treatment of the children who worked there. Originally it was a corn mill, and then a paper mill, before becoming a cotton mill.

The village had its own mill, Ascott Mill, at one time; Langley Mill, shown here, was outside the village, nudging the Shipton-under- Wychwood border - the River Evenlode marks the parish boundary.

The last post-mill in the county, dated 1711, it blends with the owner/managers house and the store shed to provide a self-contained industrial group.

This is an excellent view of Botley Mills, which produced cattle fodder and seed for farmers. Note how low barges could come up under the mills for unloading and refilling.

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.