List of horse mills
This is a list of horse mills that exist or are known to have existed.
Belgium
Province | Location | Notes |
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Antwerp
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Antwerp | Brouwers Huis Museum |
Antwerp | Ghent | Bas relief of a mediaeval horse mill on front of mill. [1] |
Channel Islands
Island | Location | Notes |
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Jersey | The Elms | A horse-drawn apple crusher. |
Guernsey | A horse-powered cider mill is preserved at the Folk museum. |
Croatia
County | Location | Notes |
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Vukovar-Srijem County | Otok
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The local horse-powered "dry" mill (Croatian: Otočka suvara) is the symbol of- and is found in the coat of arms of the city. It is the last remaining mill of this type in Croatia.[1] |
England
County | Location | Notes |
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Bedfordshire | Eversholt | A horse engine, now preserved at Billing Mill, Northamptonshire. |
Kensworth | A donkey wheel from Nash Farm is preserved in Luton Museum and Art Gallery. | |
Kensworth | There was a donkey wheel at Church End Farm. | |
Sandy Heath | A horse powered wash mill was in use at the coprolite mine in the 1870s. | |
Woburn | A horse-driven corn mill. | |
Berkshire | Woolley Park | A horse-driven corn mill. |
Buckinghamshire | Aylesbury | A horse wheel and churn are now preserved in the Science Museum (London) .
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Hawridge | A horse mill photographed in 1938 by Stanley Freese. | |
Cambridgeshire | Fen Ditton | in 1251 the customary tenants of the bishop of Ely were required to use the horse mill even though other mills were available. |
Horningsea | A horse-powered mill in 1251. | |
Little Eversden | A horse mill £50 (on the coprolite workings).1871. | |
Meldreth | A horse-powered mill was used to process material from coprolite mine between 1860 and 1890. | |
Newton-in-the-Isle | A horse powered temporary woad mill that was subsequently moved to Parson Drove. | |
Parson Drove | A horse driven temporary woad mill operated in Parson Drove, near Wisbech until the early 20th century. Previously used in Newton-in-the-Isle. Taken down in 1914.[2] model is on exhibition in Wisbech & Fenland museum.[3] | |
Stretham | A horse powered washing mill for the coprolite mine c1870. | |
Tydd St.Giles | A former location of the horse operated temporary woad mill that ended its days at Parson Drove. | |
Wisbech | In 1251 a water mill, a horse mill, at which customary tenants were obliged to grind their corn, and a newly constructed wind mill.[4] | |
Wisbech | In 1813 an excellent second-hand Horse Mill was for sale. Described as consisting of one horse wheel, 18 feet diameter : 2 sour ditto with upright shaft and iron work complete : one pair of stones, 4 feet diameter, and irons complete; stone bed frame, brig tree, stone cases, with hopper, screen, & c. Pump gears, shaft, cranks, and iron work to the same, all in excellent condition. Enquire of Mr. geo. Snarey, millwright, Wisbech.[5] | |
Cheshire | Widnes | A horse-powered mill in Widnes in the 13th century. |
Cornwall | Gwennap | A horse whim for raising ore. |
Newquay | A horse gear for driving a threshing machine is preserved at the Dairyland museum. | |
Cumberland | Cartmel | A horse gear is preserved at the Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal .
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Derbyshire | Castleton | A horse-powered ore crusher stood at SK135835. |
Devonshire | Bovey Tracey | A photo of the horse cider Press in Bovey Tracey. C1940. E.M.Gardiner. |
Dunsford | Remains of a horse powered cider Press. Lowley Farm. | |
Harberton | A photo of the cider Press in Harberton. c1940.Mills archive. | |
Scorlinch, Clyst St. Lawrence
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A horse engine. | |
Weyland, Tedburn St. Mary
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A horse-powered mill, extant in the 1920s. | |
Durham | East Herrington
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A horse-powered mine gin. |
Beamish Museum | Oak and iron horse mill for threshing in situ in gin gang at Home Farm; unused since ca.1830. | |
Hampshire | Southampton | A horse-powered pumping engine in the Weevil Brewery. Built by John Smeaton in 1780. |
Herefordshire | Bacton | A contemporary horse powered cider Press at Fair Oak.[6] |
Little Cowarne | A horse-powered cider mill located in the oast at Little Cowarne Court.
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Hertfordshire | Ashridge | A donkey wheel. |
Isle of Wight | Carisbrooke | Carisbrooke Castle: a donkey wheel, extant. |
Kent | Chilham | Chilham Castle: a horse wheel driving pumps. |
Burham | Great Kewlands, a dog wheel for raising water.[7] | |
West Kingsdown | A horse whim, now preserved at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum , Singleton, Sussex.
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Lancashire | Preston | A horse powered spinning mill.[8] |
Lincolnshire | Brothertoft | A horse powered permanent woad mill. In operation until the early 20th century. |
Grimsby | A horse operated machine for grinding Malt was offered for sale by Messrs. Simpson & Reavis in 1809.[9] | |
Spalding | A horse powered temporary woad mill. Later relocated and finally taken down at Parson Drove,Cambridgeshire. | |
Sutterton | A horse powered Woad mill.[10] | |
Whaplode Marsh | A horse powered temporary woad mill. Later relocated and finally taken down at Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire. | |
London | A horse-powered pumping engine in the Chiswell Street brewery. | |
Norfolk | Norwich | Catton mill: a horse and wind mill. |
Earlham Hall: a horse mill. | ||
Heigham: in a tannery | ||
Mill Hill, Heigham: a horse and wind mill. | ||
Pockthorpe mill: a horse and wind mill. | ||
Attleborough | Great mill: a horse and wind mill. | |
King's Lynn | Kettle mills: a horse-, wind- and water-mill.[11] | |
Oulton | A horse and wind mill. | |
Wymondham | A horse-powered mill.[12] | |
Northumberland | Berwick Hill | A horse gin built in 1814. Now preserved at Beamish Museum.
Cragend Farm Rothbury 1864 OS map A horse gin built earlier shown on OS map in 1864 latterly reconstructed by Loord Armstong of Cragside into a hydraulic machine room using water power. |
Nottinghamshire | Nottingham | A horse powered cotton mill.[13] |
Wollaton Park | A horse gin built at Langton Colliery in 1844 and later used at Pinxton Colliery. | |
Oxfordshire | Rotherfield Greys. | Greys Court: a National Trust property, with a donkey wheel. |
Great Tew | A horse-powered corn mill. | |
Suffolk | Blythburgh | There was a horse wheel at Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket .
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Drinkstone. | The smock mill formerly had a horse mill in the base. | |
Surrey | Cobham | A contemporary horse powered cider mill 'Horse Kick Cider Ltd' since 2016 |
Painshill | A horse wheel used for raising water. In use from 1770 to the 1830s. | |
Sussex | Patching | A pug mill, now preserved at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton |
Mark Cross
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a pug mill in a brickyard. | |
Stanmer | A donkey wheel, in the churchyard of Stanmer Church. | |
Saddlescombe | A donkey wheel at the farm, owned by the National Trust.[14] | |
Wiltshire | Broad Hinton | A donkey wheel, demolished in 1908. |
Tidworth | A horse-driven pump, working in the 1930s. | |
Worcestershire | Burlingham
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A horse-powered cider mill is preserved at Hartlebury Castle. |
Yorkshire | Hutton-le-Hole | A horse mill is preserved at the Ryedale Folk Museum. |
Stillington | A horse wheel now preserved at Shibden Hall. | |
Sutton | A gorse crushing mill is preserved on the village green. |
France
Département | Location | Notes |
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Drôme | Nyons | Les Vieux Moulins à huile, a watermill and also animal-powered mill.[15] |
Lot | Varaire | Moulin à huile, an animal-powered oil mill.[15] |
Tarn | Magrin | Musée du Pastel[15] |
Var | Pontevès | Moulin de Pontevès, produced olive oil.[15] |
Vaucluse | Gordes | Moulin des Bouillons, produced olive oil.[15] |
Vaucluse | Joucas | Le Moulin à huile, produced olive oil.[15] |
Hungary
County | Location | Notes |
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Békés | Szarvas | A mill built in 1836. (Hungarian: szarvasi szárazmalom) is the last remaining horse-powered mill in its condition.[16] |
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
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Vámosoroszi | A reconstructed horse-powered mill built before 1840. is moved to the Hungarian Open Air Museum in Szentendre.[17]
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Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
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Tarpa | An animal-powered mill reconstructed in 1980s is declared industrial-history landmark[18] and functions as an open-air cultural heritage museum.[19] |
Poland
Voivodeship | Location | Notes |
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Lesser Poland | Wieliczka Salt Mine[20] | Three horse mills: Hungarian- and Saxon-types with vertical rope drums and Polish-type with a horizontal windlass |
Scotland
County | Location | Notes | |
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Aberdeenshire | Gartly | A horse mill for crushing gorse for fodder | |
Ayrshire | Titwood Farm, Kilmaurs | ||
Fife | Culross | Horse-gin built by Sir George Bruce c1590 to raise mine water from his Moat Pit, powered by 3 horses and using 36 buckets on a chain, working to a depth of 40 fathoms, known as the 'Egyptian Wheel'. At least 3 other horse-gins were in use at Culross Colliery between 1590 and 1676. | |
Lanarkshire | Wester Kittochside, East Kilbride. | This example is at the Museum of Scottish Country Life and was recently dug out (2005) and partially restored to working condition.
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Orkney | Garson Farm, Stromness | ||
Selkirkshire | Broomhill House,[21] Selkirk | Recently restored horse mill | |
Shetland | Lund Farm, Unst | A horse gin, probably for powering a thresher in the barn. |
Serbia
District | Location | Notes |
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North Banat District | Suvača, Kikinda | Suvača is in 1990 proclaimed as a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance .
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Spain
Province | Location | Notes |
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Canary Islands | Tefia, Puerto del Rosario | A donkey-powered mill preserved at La Alcogida Ecomuseum |
Wales
County | Location | Notes |
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Caernarvonshire
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Dullog, Rhostryfan, Caernarfon | An oblique dog-wheel. Now preserved at the Welsh Folk Museum , St. Fagans, Cardiff
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Denbighshire | Wrexham | Bersham Colliery, a reconstruction of a horse gin. |
Monmouthshire | Abergavenny | A dog-driven spit is preserved in the museum. |
Pembrokeshire | Penysgwarne Farm, Tremarchog |
United States
State | Location | Notes |
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Indiana | Bottorff-McCulloch Farm
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See also
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References
- Animal-Powered Machines, ISBN 0-85263-710-1
- Water-mills, windmills and horse-mills of South Africa, James Walton. C Struik Publishers, 1974. ISBN 0-86977-040-3
- ^ Description of the mill at the community's portal. (in Croatian)
- ^ "Woad mill". artuk.org. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ A history of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely:vol 4, city of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech pp 197-200. Victoria County History. 2002.
- ^ A history of the county of Cambridge and the isle of Ely:vol 4, city of Ely, N. and S.Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds pp243-245. Victoria County History. 2002.
- ^ "Capital HORSE MILL to be sold". Cambridge Chronicle and Journal. 11 June 1813. p. 4.
- ^ "cider mill". Hereford times. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ Coles Finch, William (1925). In Kentish Pilgrim Land. London: C W Daniel. p. 26.
- ^ "Arkwright". BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "To Brewers and others". Stamford Mercury. 5 May 1809. p. 4.
- ^ Norman T.Wills (1979). Woad in the Fens. N.T.Wills.
- ^ "Margery Kempe". www.bl.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ "Brodick mill". norfolmills.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
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- ^ "Saddlescombe Farm and Newtimber Hill". National Trust. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ ISBN 2-7373-1673-1.
- ^ Description at the local "Tessedik Sámuel" museum. (in Hungarian)
- ^ Photostory about the reconstruction of the "dry" mill. (in Hungarian)
- ^ Info about the mill with some photographs. (in Hungarian)
- ^ Info with GPS coordinates for visitors. (in Hungarian)
- ^ "Horse mill".
- ^ "Walled Garden, Broomhill House, Selkirk, Scottish Borders".