Medway watermills (middle tributaries)

v t e Watermills of the River Medway and its tributaries
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From source Southborough Bourne Vauxhall Furnace Brook Mill Bourne Mill Priory Mill Eldridge Lock Porters Lock East Lock Tudeley Brook Keyes Mill Spring Grove Mill Badsell Mill River Beult Pen Stream Hadlow Stair Mill Ulcombe Mill Oak Weir Lock Chart Sutton Mill River Bourne Crouch Mill Old Mill mill Basted Mill mill Crane Brook mill Upper Mill Lower Basted Mill Bakers Cross Mill Anthony's Mill Winfield Mill Hatmill The Freight Mill Cranbrook fulling mill Longmill Sissinghurst Mill Roughway Mill Karckeregge Mill Hamptons Mill Branden Mill Hammer Stream Uridge's Mill Hammer Mill Fairlawne Sawmill New Mill Hammer Mill (corn) Claygate pump River Teise Bettenham Mill Standing's mill Winn Stream Oxonhoath Mill Benhall Mill Bayham Abbey Forge Bourne Mill Brookland Forge Gloucester Furnace Angley Brook Verredge Forge Goldhill Mill Pin Pond Mill Hoadly Forge Bartley Mill Triggs Mill Spratsbourne Mill Pierce Mill Glassenbury Mill Furnace Mill Dog Kennel Mill Bedgebury Forge Little Mill Friezley Mill Bedgebury Furnace Angley Mill River Bewl Hope Mill Hockeredge Mill Site of Dunster's Mill Bewl Water Mad Dog Shaw Mill Hartridge Mill Paley Mill Branbridges Mill Chingley Forge Lovehurst Mill Chingley Furnace Maplehurst Mill Goudhurst Paper Mill Cherry Tree Farm Mill Marden Mill Brenchley Furnace Hunton Mill Yalding Mill To mouth

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. A large number of tributaries feed into the River Medway. The tributaries that powered watermills will be described in the order that they feed in. The mills are described in order from source to mouth. Left bank and right bank are referred to as though the reader is facing downstream. This article covers the watermills on the tributaries that feed in below Penshurst and above Yalding.