The use of water power in Britain was at its peak just before the Industrial Revolution. The need for flour was great and steam power had not yet become established. It is estimated that at this time there were well in excess of 10,000 watermills in the country.

Today only a fraction of these mills survive. Many are used as private residences, or have been converted into offices or flats. A small number have been preserved or restored as museums where the public can see the mill in operation.

This is a list of some of the surviving watermills in the United Kingdom.

England

• Alderley Edge Watermill , Cheshire
• Boot Watermill , Eskdale, Cumbria
• Brindley Water Museum , Leek, Staffordshire
• Bunbury Mill , Bunbury, Cheshire
• Cheddleton Flint Mill , Staffordshire
• Churchill Forge Mill , Worcestershire
• Cogglesford Watermill , Sleaford, Lincolnshire
• Crabble Corn Mill , Dover, Kent
• Crumplehorn Watermill , Polperro, Cornwall
• Daniels Mill , Shropshire
• Docton Mill , Devon
• Fladbury Watermill , Worcestershire
• Gants Mill , Somerset
• Gleaston Watermill , Cumbria
• Haxted Watermill, Surrey
• Hever Watermill , Hever, Kent
• Hornsbury Mill , Somerset
• Ifield Watermill , Crawley, West Sussex
• Kingsbury Watermill , St Albans, Hertfordshire
• Letheringsett Watermill , Norfolk
• Little Salkeld Watermill , Cumbria
• Lode Watermill , Cambridgeshire
• Lurgashall Watermill , Sussex
• Mapledurham Watermill , Berkshire
• Mill Green Watermill, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
• Mill On The Soar , Leicestershire
• Nether Alderley Mill , Nether Alderley , Cheshire
• Otterton Mill, Devon
• Pakenham Watermill , Suffolk
• Pann Mill , Buckinghamshire
• Pateley Bridge Watermill , North Yorkshire
• Path Head Watermill , Tyne and Wear
• Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire
• Redbournbury Mill, Hertfordshire
• Sarehole Mill , West Midlands
• Scarcroft Watermill , West Yorkshire
• Soham Mill , Cambridgeshire
• Thurnham Mill , Lancashire
• Town Mill , Lyme Regis, Dorset
• Wellesbourne Watermill, Warwickshire
• Whitemill , Dorset
• Woodbridge Tide Mill , Woodbridge, Suffolk
• Worsbrough Mill, South Yorkshire

Wales

• Crugybar Watermill , Carmarthenshire

Isle of Man

• Groudle Glen , Isle of Man

See also: List of windmills, windmill, windpump