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From Saxon times it provided the motive power for local corn and cloth mills, in addition to feeding the local system of water meadows, which were made fertile by regular flooding.

Arts and Crafts-style buildings, and the churches of St Michael and All Angels and the Sacred Heart and St Mary Immaculate set the pace and quality at this new Mill Hill, away from the old centre but close

In 1936 the town mill was demolished, making way for the first Ringwood bypass - it has since been widened.

The mills, which lie just outside the town, are owned by the Fox family and are still renowned for producing high quality flannel and material for nurses' uniforms.

To the left of that is the Mills Mount Cart Shed (1746) which was later used as a barracks.

Further left is an old water mill once used by a large farming community.

It was originally called Bunn's Farm, after the ironmaster who worked at the nearby 18th-century Coxe's Lock Mill on the banks of the Wey Navigation.

Chisel Hill Mill (left) reminds us of local industry powered by the River Eller. Out of shot, top left, is the beguiling little church of St Hilda.

We are looking north- eastwards from one of the public footpaths across Tarks Hill over Mill Lane and Brister End (centre) to the twin peaks of Honeycombe Wood (top left) and Lillington Hill

The large village of Heckington has two great buildings, the mill and the church of St Andrew, which is most unusual in that it was totally built in the same architectural style, Decorated, in a very few

The smoking chimney of the paper mill is in the middle foreground, with the cottages of Chartham Hatch just behind.

The 'Widgeon' is drawn up alongside the mill offloading its cargo.

Only the mill pond across the road remains.

Here we see a rustic shelter and the Osmington Mills Hotel (left), with holiday chalets facing seawards.

The village hugs the huge limestone hillside, once the site of much lead mining and smelt mills.

A hundred years ago, Huddersfield was a collection of villages - now Milnsbridge is on the outskirts.The town is packed with mills and machinery works.

St Osyth once had thriving lime-kilns and maltings, as well as wharves and a tide-mill.

Its old mill became a carpet factory in the 20th century. Many visitors climb Eggardon Hill to the Iron Age hill fort. Thomas Hardy used the ramparts as a setting in his novel 'The Trumpet Major'.

The car park indicated at the corner of Mill Lane (left) was on the site now occupied by Safeways.

Cam Beck once powered the 13th-century mill. Next to the stream is the old Methodist chapel of 1860, now a house, but with gravestones still in the back garden.

The post mill is dated 1752. It ceased working in 1914, and later all the machinery was removed. Restoration was carried out in 1966-68, and the sails turned again for the first time in 1998.

The oldest dates from 1754 and stands in front of the old Corn Mill, which opened in 1978 as the Cotswold Motor Museum.

We are looking towards Mill Lane, with comfortable but typically uninspired housing of a sort to be found on the edge of many Leicestershire towns and villages.

We are a few miles out of Bingley between Harden and Cullingworth. Gone these days are the bridge, the rustic seat and the picnic table, but the tranquillity of this beauty spot remains.