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Wiltshire water & wind mills
« on: Sunday 19 March 23 18:16 GMT (UK) »
I am wondering if there is anyone who has an idea about the number of watermills compared to windmills in say the 18th Century. The north part of Wiltshire is currently of greater interest to me.
Thanks for any help. Toby.

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Re: Wiltshire water & wind mills
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 19 March 23 18:47 GMT (UK) »
I presume you have Googled and seen this site?

https://www.windmillworld.com/uk/wiltshire.htm
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Wiltshire water & wind mills
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 19 March 23 22:06 GMT (UK) »
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
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Re: Wiltshire water & wind mills
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 19 March 23 22:55 GMT (UK) »
One of the best archives on the subject is the Mills Archive: https://new.millsarchive.org/

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Re: Wiltshire water & wind mills
« Reply #4 on: Monday 20 March 23 14:49 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to you all for I now have a good start. T.

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Re: Wiltshire water & wind mills
« Reply #5 on: Monday 20 March 23 16:02 GMT (UK) »
I had a look at "18th Century Collections" to check how many times "Watermill/Watermills",  "Water-mill/Water-mills", "Windmill/Windmills" and "Wind-mill/Wind-mills" occurred in their wide range ofpublications. Came up with 11,135 references to wind driven mills and 7,539 references to water driven mills.
Repeated the search against 18th Century newspapers which threw up 7,580 references to wind driven mills and 2,395 references to water driven mills.
Wholly "finger in the air" (faute de mieux on my part) but, at least, consistent in identifying wind driven as the majority!!

Noticed that the Domesday Book recorded about 6,000 mills which were mainly water driven with some animal powered. Think the article mentioned "pre-windmill"? It also gave a county by county breakdown.
Best of luck with the search

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Re: Wiltshire water & wind mills
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 21 March 23 17:44 GMT (UK) »
Thank you so much hanes teulu. Now it's a question of which are the windy counties and which have the better water resources. T
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