Watermills and Windmills of Middlesex, second edition

£20.00

A4, 124 pp.

It seems hard to believe that most of what is now London, north of the Thames, was once a largely rural county called Middlesex, where for over eight hundred years corn was ground using mills powered by wind or water – which could be harnessed for a variety of other purposes too, such as pumping, supplying ventilation, sawing wood, and manufacturing cloth, leather, oil, paint, dyes, gunpowder, brass, mustard, card and paper. Today six watermills survive, but of windmills there are none, though there were over a hundred altogether before Middlesex was overtaken by Metropolitan growth to the point of extinction. This is the definitive account of every known mill and miller from Cripplegate to Chelsea, Edgware to Edmonton, Harrow to Hounslow, and Soho to Stepney, illustrated from old maps, engravings, paintings and photographs.

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