Kingsbury Watermill - On the river Ver, half a mile upstream from St. Albans Abbey, stands Kingsbury Watermill in the village of St. Michaels. The site was used for milling since before the Domesday Survey of 1066.

During the 18th century, a Georgian brick facade was built, including the miller’s house. Since then, the mill has remained virtually unaltered. It is thought that a mill was in use at Kingsbury during Saxon times and at the same time there was a mill belonging to the abbey.

During the 12th century, Geoffrey de Gorham, the 16th Abbot of St. Albans, built a house on land he owned in the proximity of Kingsbury Mill. This area subsequently became Gorhambury, later inherited by Sir Francis Bacon, lawyer, philosopher and scientist.

Until the late 1920’s , Kingsbury Mill ground the grain grown on the Gorhambury Estate. The last time it milled flour was in 1936, and was only used to crush oats for animal fodder by the 1960s.