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  2. List of early medieval watermills - Wikipedia

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    Tide mills, along with riverine ship mills, were a major early medieval technological advance, allowing to tap the tidal power along the Atlantic Coast for milling.. This list of early medieval watermills comprises a selection of European watermills spanning the early Middle Ages, from 500 to 1000 AD.

  3. Watermill - Wikipedia

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    Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) Interior of the Lyme Regis watermill, UK (14th century). A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering.

  4. Tide mill - Wikipedia

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    Tidal mill at Olhão, Portugal. A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary is made into a reservoir. As the tide comes in, it enters the mill pond through a one-way gate, and this gate closes automatically when the tide begins to fall.

  5. List of watermills - Wikipedia

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    List of early medieval watermills; Barbegal aqueduct and mill; Hierapolis sawmill; Africa ... Barrabool Flour Mill, Buckley's Falls, Highton, Geelong, Victoria;

  6. Fulling - Wikipedia

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    From the medieval period, the fulling of cloth was often done in a water mill, known as a fulling mill, a walk mill, or a tuck mill, and in Wales, a pandy. They appear to have originated in the 9th or 10th century in Europe. The earliest known reference to a fulling mill in France, which dates from about 1086, was discovered in Normandy. [3]

  7. List of watermills in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Listen to the water mill Through the livelong day; How the clicking of the wheel Wears the hours away. Languidly the autumn wind Stirs the withered leaves; On the field the reapers sing Binding up the sheaves; And a proverb haunts my mind And as a spell is cast, "The mill will never grind With the water that has passed."

  8. Stour watermills - Wikipedia

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    This corn mill stood on the site of a medieval mill owned by the Abbot. The building dated from 1792 and was originally designed as a granary by John Smeaton. In 1794 it was converted into a watermill by Joseph Royle and James Simmons. [30] The building was 60 feet (18.29 m) square in plan, and six storeys tall.

  9. Mills of the Guadalquivir - Wikipedia

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    Most of the Guadalquivir water mills are near the city center of Córdoba. Two of them are about 5 km upstream and one is about 4 km downstream. They are 11 independent buildings, but most of them share a weir with other water mills. Some of the mill buildings house multiple mills. [1] The weirs serve to create a steady water supply.