Medway watermills

v t e Watermills of the River Medway and its tributaries
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Source TQ 334 359 51°06′25″N 0°05′37″W / 51.10694°N 0.09361°W / 51.10694; -0.09361 Fen Place Mill West Hoathly Stream Gravetye Foundry Weir Wood Reservoir Mill Place Foundry East Grinstead Stream Brook Mill Dunning's Mill Brambletye Mill Tablehurst Mill Parrock Forge Hartfield Iron Mill Ashurst Mill Ashurst Furnace Chafford Mills Pound Mill Ensfield Mill Limit of navigation Ramhurst Mill Powder Mills Town Lock Town Mill Eldridge Lock Porters Lock East Lock Oak Weir Lock Branbridges Mill Teston Lock Farleigh Lock Friars Mill Borstal Mill Cuxton Mill Priory Mill Strood Tide Mill Strood, Thames and Medway Canal Chatham Tide Mill The Swale Thames Estuary

The Medway and its tributaries and sub-tributaries have been used for over 1,150 years as a source of power. There are over two hundred sites where the use of water power is known. These uses included corn milling, fulling, paper making, iron smelting, pumping water, making gunpowder, vegetable oil extraction, and electricity generation. Today, there is just one watermill working for trade. Those that remain have mostly been converted. Such conversions include a garage, dwellings, restaurants, museums and a wedding venue. Some watermills are mere derelict shells, lower walls or lesser remains. Of the majority, there is nothing to be seen.