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Best of North West England

The 6 best watermills in North West England

Our curated top 6 watermills in North West England, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 9 watermills see the full watermills index for North West England.

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    Helmshore Mills Textile Museum

    Lancashire

    Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, watermills in Lancashire

    Helmshore Mills Textile Museum is a watermill in the United Kingdom.

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    High Corn Mill

    High Corn Mill - geograph.org.uk - 6032018

    High Corn Mill is a historic building in Skipton, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The has been a water mill by Mill Bridge in Skipton since the Mediaeval period. The current building largely da

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    Eskdale Corn Mill

    Boot Post Office. - geograph.org.uk - 246728

    Eskdale Corn Mill, also simply known as Eskdale Mill, is a grade II* listed corn mill, together with associated buildings, in the village of Boot in the English county of Cumbria. The corn mill takes

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    Gleaston Cornmill

    Gleaston Watermill - geograph.org.uk - 96030

    Details SD 27 SE 19/15 ALDINGHAM GLEASTON Gleaston Cornmill II Mill. C18 and C19. Stone rubble with slate roofs. Originally L-plan with later re-entrant range giving rectangular plan. East elevation o

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    Fawcett Mill, house with adjoining byre

    Rais Beck at Fawcett Mill - geograph.org.uk - 162444

    Details ORTON B6261 NY 60 NW (off East side) 13/73 Fawcett Mill, House with adjoining byre GV II Miller's house with adjoining byre. 1784 date, with initials J. & E.R., on door lintel; byre of 2 separ

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    Nibthwaite Mill

    Duddon Sands - geograph.org.uk - 5461896

    Details COLTON NIBTHWAITE SD 28 NE 5/59 Nibthwaite Mill II* Bobbin mill incorporating remains of iron furnace, now house. Furnace 1735, bobbin mill c.1840. Stone rubble with slate roofs. 2 storeys wit

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