A mill pond is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill.
Hagley mill pond on Brandywine Creek in Delaware which fed the mill race powering the gunpowder mills owned by DuPont, historical armaments supplier in the U.S.
Panorama of Cromford mill pond at Cromford, Derbyshire, England
Small pond on the West branch panoramio
A mill race, millrace or millrun, mill lade or mill leat is the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel conducting water to or from a water wheel. Compared with the broad waters of a
Mill pond
…gone. It may be fed by a man-made stream, known by several terms including leat and mill stream. The channel or stream leading from the mill pond is the mill race, which together with weirs, dams, channels and the terrain establishing the mill pond, delivers water to the mill wheel to convert potential and/or…
Mill Race, Redbournbury Mill, River Ver, near St Albans.
Storckensohn water head race, or flume.
Tail race rejoining River Meon.