Buttsworth Mill

Buttsworth Mill was located on the bank of Buttsworths Creek, Wilberforce, New South Wales from 1830 to 1915.

A landmark for over seventy years, Buttsworth Mill with its impressive chimney stack once stood at the approach to the town of Wilberforce on the northern bank of Buttsworth Creek. Constructed for Henry Buttsworth of locally quarried Hawkesbury sandstone, reputedly by John Stephens of Ebenezer in the mid 1840s, the mill replaced an earlier timber structure which had been in existence since the mid 1830s.

Henry Buttsworth arrived on the convict transport Guildford in January 1812 and was assigned to Sarah, the youngest daughter of Thomas Rose, whom he married in November 1813. Henry and Sarah acquired about 115 acres on the banks of the Hawkesbury at Wilberforce in 1828.

By 1830, twenty-six of the forty-six grain mills in the colony were located in the Hawkesbury district. Buttsworth saw the potential of establishing the milling industry in the Wilberforce district where many acres had been given over to grain crops such as wheat, maize and barley.

In conjunction with the mill, a wharf was constructed to facilitate the transport of grain and the shipping of the resultant flour or meal. Whereas most of the mills in the district were water-powered, Buttsworth’s Mill was driven by steam which required large quantities of both water and fuel, the most efficient being coal which was transported by coastal vessel from Newcastle.

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