For a description of the various pieces of machinery mentioned, see Mill machinery.
River Stour and tributaries
The River Stour has been used for centuries as a source of power. Many different processes were performed by the use of water power:- Corn milling, fulling, paper making and electricity generation. Many of the mills survive today as house conversions, with two of them still working commercially.
still working commercially. The upper reaches of the Great Stour powered eight watermills, with a further two on tributaries. TQ 903 503 51°13′12″N 0°43′26″E...
watermills and windmills. A rare survivor is the treadwheel in the Bell Harry tower of Canterbury Cathedral. There were a total of ten watermills at...
the Great Stour. The Len flows in a westerly direction and joins the Medway at Maidstone. The River Stour is also known as the Great Stour, especially...
Littlebourne Wickhambreaux Ickham West Stourmouth The Little Stour powered four watermills, at Littlebourne, Wickhambreaux and Ickham. The stretch of the...
Flatford Mill is a Grade I listed watermill on the River Stour at Flatford in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England. According to the date-stone the mill was...
of Bearsted and powered two watermills before joining the River Len. A stream rises in Leeds and powered three watermills before joining the River Len...
the needs of the villagers. There were two watermills on the Upper Great Stour and two windmills. Watermills Burnt Mill, a corn mill working until the...
Stour, 6 miles (9.7 km) north- west of Colchester and 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Sudbury, Suffolk, covered 2,322 acres (929 hectares). The Stour forms...
Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974. It lies on the River Stour. The city has a mild oceanic climate. Canterbury is a popular tourist destination...
Somerset and southwest Wiltshire in southern England. The vale is part of the Stour valley, part of the Dorset AONB and part of the natural region known as...
Sturminster Newton is a town and civil parish situated on the River Stour in the north of Dorset, England. The town is at the centre of the Blackmore...
maintenance. The bridge and weir mechanism at Sturminster Newton on the River Stour, Dorset, UK Two weirs on the River Wear in Durham, UK: the lower weir is...
Sturminster Marshall on the River Stour, owned by the National Trust White Mill, Sturry, a watermill on the River Stour, Kent White Mills, Kentucky White...
Kent Preston-next-Wingham, Dover, Kent; better known as Preston Preston on Stour, Warwickshire Preston-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham Preston on...
Chain Pier, Brighton Philadelphia Museum of Art The Stour 1810 Philadelphia Museum of Art The Stour Philadelphia Museum of Art Two Donkeys 1816 Philadelphia...
absorbed into London. All the major rivers in the county were used to power watermills. From about 1900, several coal pits operated in East Kent. The Kent Coalfield...
clustered around the village green, including the former watermill on the banks of the Little Stour. The most picturesque corner is to the south-east with...
stream in the valley was dammed at regular intervals to provide power for watermills. The remains of one such dam can be seen behind the Vine Inn in Clent...
made. However, there was a particular concentration of them on the River Stour between Stourbridge and Stourport, where they were conveniently placed to...
recorded two mills already at Wombourne. These would have been undershot watermills, which were already diversifying in use beyond corn grinding in that period...
particularly the Mole, Medway, Stour, Rother, Cuckmere, Ouse, Adur and Arun. Many of these streams provided the power for the watermills, blast furnaces and hammers...
Retrieved 5 March 2018. "Once a bus park, now a wildlife haven". Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2018. 51°16′59″N...
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