Sentence examples for tidal mill from inspiring English sources

Restored tidal mill circa 1700.

At its southern end sits the 18th-century House Mill (housemill.org.uk), the world's largest tidal mill, hosting a varied summer programme of talks, exhibitions and guided tours of the building's mechanisms.

These waterwheels generally used the energy of moving streams, but tidal mills also appeared in the 11th century.

Although limited in operation to ebbing tide conditions, tidal mills were widely used by the 12th century.

The rats' alley led us past the tidal mills and oasthouses of the Three Mills film studios before leaving the river for the Bromley Gas Works.

Some Huguenots settled in Staten Island, others in New Paltz, but most clustered in southeastern Westchester, working tidal mills and farms, said Barbara Davis, acting New Rochelle city historian.

The island was the site of Dutch tidal mills in the 17th century, and its industrial period began with two horse-rendering plants in the late 1850s.

I joined them at 3 Mills Studio, which occupies the rustic site of a group of tidal mills that were up and running in the Middle Ages and continued to function until the nineteen-forties.

The earliest recorded reference to tidal mills is found in the Domesday Book (1086), which also records more than 5,000 water mills in England south of the Severn and Trent rivers.

There are a few places where tidal power is being utilised (France, Canada and China) though it is an ancient technology dating back at least to the 11th Century when tidal mills were used to grind flour in Europe.

A mill was built on Welhay stream but this was replaced by tidal mills.