Industrial Heritage
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Norse or Click Mills
Once common across the Northern and Western Isles, these
were used to grind corn from Viking Times to the beginning
of the C20th. They are horizontal mills as the water
wheels are set horizontally rather than vertically. They
are often called either Norse Mills or Click Mills from
the sound made by the rotating millstone knocking a stick
which ensured an even flow of grain from the hopper onto
the millstones. Several families might share a single
mill.
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