Water wheels
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of free-flowing or falling water into useful forms of power. A water wheel consists of a large wooden or metal wheel, with a number of blades or buckets arranged on the outside rim forming the driving surface. (wiki)
Only complete and functioning water wheels are part of this connection.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Cordoba | Molino de la Albolafia | |
| Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape | At Morwellham Quay | |
| Derwent Valley Mills | Water wheel in Cromford (appears to be within the inscribed area but not the original location!). There is also a small water wheel at Slinter Cottage but this may not be working yet. | |
| Engelsberg Ironworks | ||
| Falun Great Copper Mountain | Two around the big pit | |
| Hani Rice Terraces | Water powered mills (for grinding grain), and water-operated tilt hammers (for hulling rice) are found in most valleys (AB ev) | |
| Heritage of Mercury | Kamst Water Wheel in Idrija, the "biggest still preserved wooden water wheel of this type in Europe" | |
| Karlskrona | Crown Mill in Lyckeby | |
| New Lanark | Mill Number Four ... In 1990 a waterwheel was brought from Hole Mill Farm, Fife, and installed on the site of the mill. (wiki) - the ten original water wheels, which drove the mills, were gradually replaced by three water turbines | |
| Old Town of Lijiang | Lijiang's large water wheel at main entrance is one of the landmarks of the town | |
| Rammelsberg and Goslar | "the water which for hundreds of years set the four underground driving wheels in motion. Three of these waterwheels can still today be seen in their original locations" | |
| Salzburg | At the Stift St. Peter bakery | |
| The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales | At the Dinorewic museum. 15.4 m in diameter. The largest in Britain | |
| Vlkolinec |
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