England
County | Location | Notes |
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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. | |
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. |
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