Milldam
title: "Milldam" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["dams", "watermills"] topic_path: "general/dams" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milldam" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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A mill dam (International English) or milldam (US) is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a mill pond.
Water passing through a dam's spillway is used to turn a water wheel and provide energy to the many varieties of watermill. By raising the water level so that the overflow has farther to fall, a milldam increases the potential energy that a mill can harness and use for various tasks.
Examples
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/York-mill-dam-tn1.jpg" caption="231x231px]]Listed are here are some of the many examples of historic milldams and millponds (or [[place names]] taken from them)."] ::
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Examples in the [[United Kingdom]] include
- Bramley Millpond in Bramley, Surrey
- Ifield Millpond in Ifield, West Sussex
- Valebridge Millpond on the outskirts of Burgess Hill, West Sussex
- Mill Dam, Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands
Examples in the [[United States]] include
- Milldam Rice Mill and Rice Barn in Georgetown County, South Carolina
- Atwater Millpond in Kalamazoo County, Michigan
- [[File:River mill dam governor test.png|thumb|286x286px|Governor for a river mill dam ]]Ballardvale Millpond in Ballardvale, Massachusetts
- Bigler's Millpond in Bigler's Mill, Virginia
- Crump's Millpond in Quinton, Virginia
- Gardy's Millpond in Westmoreland and Northumberland County, Virginia
- Glovers Millpond in Glascock County, Georgia
- Goodrich Millpond in Genesee County, Michigan
- Goodwin's Millpond in Marlboro County, South Carolina
- Hands Millpond in Cape May County, New Jersey
- Merchants Millpond State Park in Gates County, North Carolina
- Milldam, Concord, Massachusetts
- Millpond, a small lake in Butler, New York
- Millpond Acres in Sussex County, Delaware
- Millpond Park in Mount Pleasant, Michigan
- Millpond Plantation in Thomas County, Georgia
- Millpond Reservoir in Burlington, Massachusetts
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