swap_horiz Houghton Mill Alternatives

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Quarry Bank Mill

Quarry Bank Mill is a water-powered cotton mill at Styal, Cheshire, built by Samuel Greg in 1784 and preserved as a majo...

England Textile Cheshire National Trust

9.3 Excellent

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Fountains Abbey Mill

Fountains Abbey Mill is a Grade I Cistercian watermill in North Yorkshire, England, built in the 1130s or 1140s and late...

England Yorkshire Corn National Trust

8.7 Great

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Sarehole Mill

Sarehole Mill is a 17th-century watermill in Birmingham, England, notable as the childhood home inspiration for author J...

England Museum Corn Birmingham

8.4 Great

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Finch Foundry

Finch Foundry is a 19th-century water-powered forge at Sticklepath, Devon, England, once producing about 400 edge tools...

England Devon National Trust Forge

8.2 Great

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Winchester City Mill

Winchester City Mill is a restored River Itchen watermill in Hampshire, England, recorded in 1086 and rebuilt in 1744 by...

England Corn Hampshire National Trust

8.1 Great

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Mapledurham Watermill

Mapledurham Watermill is a Grade II* Thames mill in Oxfordshire, England, with a 15th-century core and a modern Archimed...

England Historic Oxfordshire Corn

8.1 Great

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Preston Mill

Preston Mill is a historic 18th-century water-powered meal mill in East Lothian, Scotland, notable for its distinctive c...

Scotland Corn National Trust East Lothian

8.1 Great

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Stotfold Mill

Stotfold Mill is a working Grade II watermill on England's River Ivel, rebuilt after a 1992 fire and noted for a 4.4 m w...

England Museum Corn Bedfordshire

8.0 Great

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Cotehele Mill

Cotehele Mill is the restored estate watermill at Cotehele in Cornwall, England, where grain from Plymouth was ground an...

England Corn Cornwall National Trust

7.9 Good

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Dunster Working Watermill

Dunster Working Watermill is a Grade II* mill in Somerset, England, built around 1780 on a Domesday mill site and restor...

England Somerset Corn National Trust

7.9 Good

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Pakenham Watermill

Pakenham Watermill is a working watermill in Suffolk, England, claimed by its village as the county's only working examp...

England Museum Corn Suffolk

7.8 Good

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Barry Mill

Barry Mill is a restored early 19th-century working oatmeal mill in Angus, Scotland, notable for demonstrating tradition...

Scotland Corn National Trust Angus

7.8 Good

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Stretton Watermill

Stretton Watermill is a Grade II* working mill in Cheshire, England, with surviving machinery of national importance and...

England Museum Corn Cheshire

7.7 Good

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Shalford Mill

Shalford Mill is an 18th-century Grade II* watermill in Surrey, England, given to the National Trust in 1932 by the cons...

England Corn Surrey National Trust

7.7 Good

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Sacrewell Mill

Sacrewell Mill is a restored working watermill at Thornhaugh near Peterborough, England, reopened after a GBP 1.4 millio...

Heritage England Corn Cambridgeshire

7.6 Good

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Stainsby Mill

Stainsby Mill is a restored 1846-1850 flour watermill on the Hardwick Hall estate in Derbyshire, England, owned by the N...

England Corn National Trust Derbyshire

7.6 Good

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Lode Watermill

Lode Watermill is the working mill at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, England, restored to working order in 1978 by lo...

England Historic Corn Cambridgeshire

7.5 Good

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Nether Alderley Mill

Nether Alderley Mill is a 16th-century Cheshire watermill owned by the National Trust, noted for its rare triple oversho...

England Corn Cheshire National Trust

7.4 Good

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Bourne Mill, Colchester

Bourne Mill, Colchester is a Grade I listed 1591 fishing lodge in Essex, England, later converted into a fulling mill an...

England Essex Corn National Trust

7.2 Good

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White Mill

White Mill is an 18th-century corn watermill near Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, England, rebuilt in 1776 and retaining...

England Corn National Trust Dorset

6.9 Fair