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Mills classified from France

Love of the rural heritage, of its history,... you will find a complete inventory of the mills classified as historical monuments.

Indispensable to processing wheat into flour, the territory is covered with mills. Depending on the energy sources, they are wind, water or tidal. In the absence of a natural energy source, an animal operated the mill. We then speak of a blood mill.

The mill was the property of the lord who received a ban right, forcing the peasants to grind their grain at the master's mill, and thus to buy that service from him.

We separated the mills into:
  • wind mulins
  • Water mulins
  • Tide moulins

Sélection de 8 mills classified as rural heritage sur 264 en France

Windmill of Fresne in Savennières
Moulin à vent
49170 Savennières

The Fresne windmill, located in Savennières en Maine-et-Loire, is a historic monument registered since 1975, emblematic of the industrial heritage of the Pays de la Loire.
Grands Moulins de Paris in Marquette-lez-Lille
Moulin
59520 Marquette-lez-Lille

The Grands Moulins de Paris, an industrial mill of the early 20th century in Marquette-lez-Lille, illustrates the neo-flammande architecture and milling history of Hauts-de-France. Disused in 1989, it has been listed as a historic monument since 2001.
Moulin de la Saulaie in Candé
Moulin à vent
49440 Candé

The Saulaie Mill, an 18th-18th-century windmill in Candé (Pays de la Loire), is a schist building typical of the Anjou windmills, disused and classified as a historical monument in 1975.
Moulin de Crève-Coeur in Bourg-en-Bresse
Moulin à eau
01000 Bourg-en-Bresse

The Crève-Coeur mill, a 19th-century water mill located in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, is a rare example of a pre-industrial mill preserved with its original equipment and canal, classified as a historical monument since 2005.
Moulin de Rochoux in Bouée
Moulin à vent
44260 Bouée

The Rochoux Mill, a seigneurial mill dating from the early 16th century in Bouée (Loire-Atlantique), is a rare example of a Breton small foot in granite bellows, inscribed in historical monuments since 1982.
Moulin de Labarthe in Blasimon
Moulin à eau
33540 Blasimon

Labarthe Mill in Blasimon, Gironde, is a 14th century fortified mill, formerly linked to the local abbey. This hydraulic monument, classified in 1926, combines defensive architecture and milling activity on six levels, with a turret added in the 15th century.
Sautret water mill in Feneu
Moulin à eau
49460 Feneu

The Sautret watermill, located in Feneu in Pays de la Loire, is a medieval seigneurial mill, renovated in the 18th and 20th centuries, still equipped with its traditional mill in working order.
Windmill of Romanèche-Thorins
Moulin à vent
71570 Romanèche-Thorins

The windmill of Romanèche-Thorins, built in the 18th century, is a listed historical monument located in the commune of Romanèche-Thorins, in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, in the department of Saône-et-Loire.