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A cat sat at the door of the mill, looking out on the world with vast contentment.    He was fat and well favoured.
I have a respect for cats who earn their living, just as I have for human kind who earn their bread before they eat it.
This cat did not eat bread, or not much of it, although in a sense he was in the bread business: he ate mice.
The miller tells me that wherever there is flour-meal, there are mice, and in a mill where grain is being ground mice are in abundance; so I learned that Grim was a useful assistant to Hammond, and, for a good reason, was a fat and happy cat.

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Below is a list of Watermills in Sussex [including standing mills, bygone mills and notable remains] Watermill

A photograph or in the "Link to website" column indicates that further details on that mill are available by clicking thereon.

Mill Societies and owners of Sussex Watermills are invited to contact us with their website address and/or text and photographs for inclusion on our website.

Click here for drawings of waterwheel types and the workings of a watermill with an "overshot" waterwheel.

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Albourne Mill, Truslers Hill TQ249164 *
Aldingbourne Mill SU924046 *
Bailey's Mill, Coolham
Shipley
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Balcombe Mill TQ317304 *
Barcombe Mill TQ432148
Barcombe Oil Mill TQ438158
Barnett's Mill
East Lavington
SU944195 *
Bartley Mill
Wadhurst
TQ632357
John Shepperd has contacted us as he has been investigating mills around Battle.

Watermills of course predated the use of wind, and were prevalent in Saxon times - the Domesday record indicates at least 1000.

Battle had Mills associated with Blast Furnaces, some on streams, and some run by hammer ponds. No doubt a good mill stream would have driven mills for Corn, Cloth beating, Hammering iron stone or charcoal for gun powder, and Bellows.



Battle had recorded water mills at Powder Mills, Sedlescombe on the upper Brede, and at Whatlington (see picture). The latter mill was dismantled in the 1930s, but the elaborate sluices and mill pool survive. Latterly, like the Robertsbridge mill, water power was supplemented by steam.

Regarding Windmills, there were three at different times on the turnpike road south of the town - at "Telham" dismantled in the 1950s, at Black Horse a mile further south, and at Bredsell farm. Up Caldbek hill, the last of the King's Head Mills is still extant and was latterly called the Black Mill, although since it became a private residence, it is painted white. A second Mill stood nearer the road, but was burned down. There was also apparently a white mill further down the road nearer the town.

Obviously, mills came and went over the centuries in scores, and it would be impossible to catalogue them all.
Beckley Furnace Mill TQ836211 *
Benhall Mill
Frant
TQ607376
Bex Mill
Heyshott
SU884187 *
Bignor Mill SU982148 *
Birchen Bridge Mill
Mannings Heath
TQ193291 *
Birdham Tide Mill SU824011 *
Bishopstone Tidemills
Seaford
TQ459002
Bolebrook [Bolebroke] Mill
Hartfield
TQ481373
Bolney Mill TQ261217 *
Boringwheel Mill
Maresfield
TQ455264
Bosham Mill SU803038 *
Brambletye Mill
Forest Row
TQ416353
Brewhurst Mill
Loxwood
TQ045310 *
Brightling Brickworks Mill, Oxleys Green TQ688223 *
Brightling Park Sawmill TQ684200
Broadbridge Mill
Bosham
SU811053
Broadbridge Mill
Broadbridge Heath
TQ144304 *
Bucksteep Mill
Warbleton
TQ652160
Bugsell Mill
Hurst Green
TQ723255
Burton Mill
Barlavington
SU979180
Bury Farm Mill TQ007150 *
Buxted Mill TQ495233
Chantry Mill
Sullington
TQ092138 *
Cobb's Mill (Cobbs Mill)
Sayers Common, Hurstpierpoint
TQ274189
Cocking Mill
SU880176
Coster's Mill
West Lavington
SU895206 *
Coultershaw Beam Pump
Petworth
SU972194 Coultershaw Beam Pump
Court Mill
Steyning
TQ172105 *
Cox's Mill
Burwash
TQ652201
Crowsole Mill
Fittleworth
TQ005206 *
Cut Mill
Bosham
SU799054 *
Darwell Mill
Brightling
TQ695198
Deans Mill
Lindfield
TQ353261 *
Duncton Mill SU964166 *
Dunnings Mill
East Grinstead
TQ391368 *
Dunsters Mill
Ticehurst
The site of this mill is now submerged under Bewl Water Reservoir
TQ689323 *
Durford Mill
Rogate
SU779232 *
Ebernoe Mill SU901280 *
Fen Place
East Grinstead
TQ361366 *
Fittleworth Mill TQ008183 *
Fletching Mill TQ423288
Freshfield Mill
Lindfield
TQ385244 *
Powder Mill
Furnace Bank Wood, Maresfield
TQ461228
Furnace Mill, Cowden
Hartfield
TQ454399 *
Gibbons Mill
Rudgwick
TQ071308 *
Halfway Bridge Mill
Lodsworth
SU930219 *
Hammonds Mill
Clayton
TQ300176 *
Hardham Mill TQ034178 *
Bridger's Mill
Haywards Heath
TQ329249 *
Hazelwick Mill
Crawley
TQ287379 *
Hellingly Mill TQ585125 *
Hempstead Mill
Uckfield
TQ483217 *
Highbridge Mill
Cuckfield
TQ297236 *
High Hurstwood Mill TQ493261
Horam Mill TQ583173 *
Horsebridge Mill
Hailsham
TQ581113
Horsham Town Mill TQ168303 *
Horsted Keynes Mill TQ380286
Huggett's Furnace Mill
Hadlow Down
TQ534259 *
Hurst Mill
South Harting
SU765210 *
Hurston Mill
Storrington
TQ073160
Ifield Mill
Crawley
TQ245364 Ifield
Isfield Mill TQ448181 *
Leigh Mill, Goddards Green
Hurstpierpoint
TQ287211 Leigh
Little Buckingham Farm Mill
Shoreham by Sea
TQ216062 *
Lod's Bridge Mill
Lodsworth
SU933210 *
Lowder Mill
Fernhurst
SU304317
Lower Mill, Cockhaise
Lindfield
TQ378257 *
Lower Mill
Nutbourne
TQ076186 *
Lumley Mill
Emsworth
An article on this mill appeared in issue 24 of the publication Sussex Industrial History
SU753064 *
Lurgashall Mill
SU940259 Lurgashall
Michelham Priory Mill
Arlington
TQ556093 Michelham Priory
Milland Mill SU836275 *
Moat Mill
Mayfield
TQ590249 *
New Mill
Crowborough Warren
TQ494320 *
Newbridge Mill, Colemans Hatch
Hartfield
TQ345328 *
Northbrook Mill
West Ashling
SU808077 *
North Mill
Easebourne
SU889220 *
Old Mill, Nutbourne
Pulborough
TQ076187 *
Old Place Mill
Pulborough
TQ044190 *
Oliver's Mill
Linchmere
SU883325 *
Park Mill, Batemans
Burwash
TQ670236 Park Mill, Batemans
Plumpton Mill TQ362150
Plumpton Place Mill TQ361136
Plumpton Upper Mill TQ362147
Polegate Mill TQ579040
Poundsley Mill
Hadlow Down
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Powder Mill
Furnace Bank Wood, Maresfield
TQ461228
Poynings Mill TQ260123  
Rackham Mill
Parham
TQ046141 *
Ratham Mill, West Ashling
Funtington
SU811063 *
Redgate Mill
Rotherfield
TQ552324 *
Rowfant Mill
Worth
TQ315377 *
Rowner Mill
Billingshurst
TQ071260
Ruckford Mill
Hurstpierpoint
TQ293149 *
Runcton Mill
North Mundham
SU880022
Sheffield Farm Mill
Fletching
TQ415257 *
Sheriff's Mill, Burstow Hill
Ardingly
TQ359288 *
Shermanbury Mill TQ212186 *
Shillinglee Park Mill
Plaistow
SU971308 *
Shortbridge Mill
Fletching
TQ450213 *
Slaugham Place Farm Mill TQ258277 *
Slinfold Mill TQ140315 *
Slipper Mill, Emsworth
Southbourne
SU753054 *
South Harting Mill SU790197 *
Stedham Mill SU864231 *
Stone Mill
Rotherfield
TQ542264 *
Bine's or Gatley's Mill
Storrington
TQ087144 *
Stream Mill
Chiddingly
TQ565154 *
Tablehurst Mill
Forest Row
TQ450352
Terwick Mill
Trotton with Chithurst
SU830221 *
Tickerage Mill,Blackboys
Framfield
TQ515210
Tidebrook Mill
Wadhurst
TQ609297 *
Twissells Mill
Heathfield
 
Uckfield Town Mill and Roller Mill TQ473209 *
Upton's Mill
Framfield
TQ504211
Valebridge Mill
Cuckfield
TQ318212 *
Wanford Mill
Rudgwick
TQ084326 *
Wannock Mill
Willingdon
TQ575035
Warnham Mill TQ168322 *
Charne (Rushlake) Mill
Warbleton
TQ621180
West Ashling Mill
Funtington
SU807073 *
Westbourne Mill SU757078 *
Witherenden Mill
Ticehurst
TQ653268 *
Woods Mill
Small Dole
TQ218138 Woods Mill


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