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Lincolnshire Watermills
An brief survey of their history and significance

Jan Sass MBE gave a brief talk about Lincolnshire watermills at the Sunday Special in Nettleham on 19 January.

Although only 55 watermills survive today in Lincolnshire, Domesday book recorded their presence in most settlements supplemented by windmills introduced from the late twelfth century.

Jon showed photographs of millers and their families in watermills including at Alvingham (shown right), Claythorpe, Nettleham and Tealby Thorpe. Claypole’s flour mill later became a cotton and flax mill.

Roller mills in our ports and larger cities producing flour on an industrial scale led to the demise of local watermills and we are grateful that our Industrial Archaeology Group has recorded several mills.

JM

January 2025