This view shows the mill, the village in the top left corner and the small touring caravan site. A part of the little beach on the other side of the river is shown in the picture below. The site is owned by the National Trust.

This view shows the location of the mill relative to the village with the church spire as a marker.

Houghton Mill is the only working watermill left on the Great Ouse and, in the Middle Ages, the mill and the village were owned by the great Benedictine Abbey of Ramsey 10 miles from Houghton.

During the 19th century the mill was powered by three separate waterwheels. Much of the internal machinery remains intact although the wheels were removed in the 1930s when the mill stopped production. Today, corn is ground by a pair of millstones powered by the north waterwheel which was re-instated in 1999.

Here you can see some of the massive internal machinery used for driving the numerous millstones. The wooden wheel on the right is a pulley wheel and would have been connected to something, a hoist perhaps, using a flat drive belt.

In the 19th century the mill was using 10 pairs of stones and those millstones were massive as can be seen here. Just beyond the exposed millstone is one of the wooden housings which normall enclosed them.