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Raindale Mill, a Victorian watermill was moved to York Castle Museum in the 1960s from the Raindale Valley on the North York Moors. The wheel is powered by a mill pond which uses water from the river below. In its original situation it 'provided for purely small scale local

Raindale Mill, a Victorian watermill was moved to York Castle Museum in the 1960s from the Raindale Valley on the North York Moors
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needs, grinding wheat into flour for human consumption, and oats and barley into meal to feed livestock.' Image 'Raindale Mill from above (2014) Photo © Keith Edkins (cc-by-sa/2.0)

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