Shaw Mills is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bishop Thornton, in Nidderdale in the former Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England.

[1] It lies in the valley of Thornton Beck, a tributary of the River Nidd, 6 miles (10 km) north west of Harrogate.

The village probably takes its name from a corn mill kept by one Robert Shaw in the 16th century.

The mills closed soon after the First World War.

[4] An industrial settlement developed in the 19th century to serve the mills.