It rises at the foot of the North Downs escarpment near Titsey in Surrey and runs initially southwards through Oxted before turning eastwards to enter Kent.

After flowing through Edenbridge and passing Hever Castle, the Eden meets the Medway at Penshurst.

From its source to its confluence with the Gibbs Brook (which it meets to the north of Crowhurst), the Eden is also known as the Broadmead Water.

[2] Downstream of Haxted Mill, the river meets its principal tributary, the Eden Brook, and turns eastwards to enter Kent above Edenbridge.

The river continues to flow eastwards, feeding the ornamental lake at Hever Castle, before turning southeastwards to meet the Medway at Penshurst.

The 1868 ordnance survey map identifies the site of this pre-conquest mill from the position of its sluice.

In full working order the current wheel produced about 11 horsepower (8.2 kW), rotating at 8 r.p.m.

The present corn mill building dates to the early 19th century, but incorporates parts of an older structure.

The waterwheel was used to work ancillary machinery until 1968, when the cast iron pit wheel was broken in the floods of that year.

[2][18][19][20][21] TQ 511 454 approx 51°11′16″N 0°09′47″E / 51.187743°N 0.163123°E / 51.187743; 0.163123 A weir in Vexour Park marks the site of a long vanished watermill.

On 28 January 1589 Evelyn was granted a wide-ranging royal licence to explore for saltpetre, a principal ingredient, and his mills at Godstone were the most important in the country.

In 1723, Joseph Marchant renewed his lease on the mill and in 1739 James Marchant (son of Joseph) took a sixty-year lease with William Clayton of Marden on 6 acres (24,000 m2) of Hedgecourt Heath in Horne, on which to erect a windmill.

An unexecuted lease of 1743 mentions that the miller has permission to take timber for the purpose of making charcoal (used in the smelting of iron).

The site remained in the ownership of the Gage family until 1745, when Colonel Edward Evelyn bought it.

The next known millers were Messrs Stenning, Lock and Stone are recorded as paying rent for the Mill at Hedgecourt.

Saunders was still at the mill in 1855 when it was sold by Lady Selina Charlotte, Viscountess Milton to George Gatty.

At that time the mill had an 11 feet (3.35 m) diameter overshot waterwheel driving two pairs of millstones.

in 1586 Thorpe bought property from William Swanne Sr in the Woodcock Forge area.

Thorpe's interest in the forge was sold to Simon Everenden of Cliffe near Lewes.

In 1672, woodland next to the pond was referred to as "Hammerwood" also known as "Wire Wood" thus indicating a drawing mill.

Edward Raby died in 1771, and the forge was taken over by his son Alexander until 1774, when the Government forced him to give up Woodcock furnace in a wrangle over the size of his moulds.

Joseph Wright and Thomas Pickett took the business, but it is thought that the Hammer Mill ceased to be used c.1787.

In 1986 the mill was again sold, and although damaged by a fire during renovations reopened as a restaurant in September of that year.

[31] A planning application to demolish the "historic old tannery" was made in 1996 and the site is now a small housing development.

This rises in springs to the south of the Greensand Ridge at the edge of Limpsfield Common, Surrey.

[34] A mill was on this site in 1241, when Stephen the miller held it of William de Adburton at a rent of 11s annually.

Possibly the site of the Hever mill mentioned in 1279, when Roland, son of Peter de Broke, attempting to "twirl the wheel" was dragged into the cogs and crushed to death.

[36] In 1910 a float device for automatically regulating the water level in the pond was installed.

A Domesday site, this corn mill was powered supplied by a pond fed by a stream.

It was powered by a cast iron overshot waterwheel and the machinery was removed in the early 1930s.