Dounby Click Mill

Dounby Click Mill is a mill located on the Mainland of Orkney, in Scotland. It is the last of the horizontal or “Norse” watermills of Orkney still in working order.

Dounby Click Mill
Dounby Click Mill, Orkney 2017-05-24.jpg
Type Watermill
Location Dounby
Coordinates 59°05′15″N 3°10′52″WCoordinates: 59°05′15″N 3°10′52″W
OS grid reference HY 32541 22853
Area Mainland, Orkney
Built 19th Century
Owner Historic Environment Scotland
Scheduled monument
Official name Click Mill
Designated 31 May 1994
Reference no. SM90076
Dounby Click Mill is located in Orkney Islands

Dounby Click Mill
Location of Dounby Click Mill in Orkney Islands

The mill is constructed with drystone walls and roofed with flagstones and turf. The design avoids the use of complicated gearing to transfer the drive to the millstones by mounting the stones directly above the wheel and on the same shaft.

It has been restored by, and is owned by, Historic Environment Scotland.