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This is a list of horse mills that exist or are known to have existed.

Belgium

Province Location Notes
Antwerp Antwerp Brouwers Huis Museum

Channel Islands

Circular horse-drawn apple crusher (tou d'preinseu) at The Elms, Jersey: a property of the National Trust for Jersey
1840s Whim Gin, original from Langton Colliery. Now at Wollaton hall, Nottingham
Island Location Notes
Jersey The Elms A horse-drawn apple crusher.
Guernsey A horse-powered cider mill is preserved at the Folk museum.

England

County Location Notes
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.
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).
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.
Derbyshire Castleton A horse-powered ore crusher stood at SK135835.
Devonshire Scorlinch, Clyst St. Lawrence A horse engine.
Weyland, Tedburn St. Mary A horse-powered mill, extant in the 1920s.
Durham East Herrington 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 Little Cowarne A horse-powered cider mill located in the oast at Little Cowarne Court.
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.[1]
West Kingsdown A horse whim, now preserved at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Sussex.
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.
Kings Lynn Kettle mills: a horse-, wind- and water-mill.
Oulton A horse and wind mill.
Northumberland Berwick Hill A horse gin built in 1814. Now preserved at Beamish Museum.
Nottinghamshire 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 Henham Hall now preserved at the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket.
Drinkstone. The smock mill formerly had a horse mill in the base.
Surrey 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 a pug mill in a brickyard.
Stanmer A donkey wheel, in the churchyard of Stanmer Church.
Wiltshire Broad Hinton A donkey wheel, demolished in 1908.
Tidworth A horse-driven pump, working in the 1930s.
Worcestershire Burlingham 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.
The horse mill at Wester Kittochside farm near Glasgow

France

Département Location Notes
Drôme Nyons Les Vieux Moulins à huile, a watermill and also animal-powered mill.[2]
Lot Varaire Moulin à huile, an animal-powered oil mill.[2]
Tarn Magrin Musée du Pastel[2]
Var Pontevès Moulin de Pontevès, produced olive oil.[2]
Vaucluse Gordes Moulin des Bouillons, produced olive oil.[2]
Vaucluse Joucas Le Moulin à huile, produced olive oil.[2]

Scotland

County Location Notes
Aberdeenshire Gartly A horse mill for crushing gorse for fodder
Ayrshire Titwood Farm, Kilamurs
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.
Selkirkshire Broomhill House,[3] Selkirk Recently restored horse mill
Shetland Lund Farm, Unst A horse gin, probably for powering a thresher in the barn.

Serbia

Suvača
District Location Notes
North Banat District Suvača, Kikinda Suvača is in 1990 proclaimed as an Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance.

Spain

Tefia
Province Location Notes
Canary Islands Tefia, Puerto del Rosario A donkey-powered mill preserved at La Alcogida Ecomuseum

Wales

County Location Notes
Caernarvonshire Dullog, Rhostryfan, Caernarfon An oblique dog-wheel. Now preserved at the Welsh Folk Museum, St. Fagans, Cardiff
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
Indiana Bottorff-McCulloch Farm

See also

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References

  • Animal-Powered Machines, J. Kenneth Major. Shire Album 128 – Shire Publications 1985. 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
  1. ^ Coles Finch, William (1925). In Kentish Pilgrim Land. London: C W Daniel. p. 26. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e f Azema, Jean-Pierre (1999). Les Moulins de France. Rennes: Fédération Française des Amis des Moulins. ISBN 2-7373-1673-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)
  3. ^ http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-19726-broomhill-house-with-walled-garden-and-ho
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