| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 54.055°N -1.61°W |
| Official Name: | Shaw Mills |
| Static Image: | Shaw Mills - geograph.org.uk - 7662.jpg |
| Civil Parish: | Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill |
| Unitary England: | North Yorkshire |
| Lieutenancy England: | North Yorkshire |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Constituency Westminster: | Skipton and Ripon |
| Post Town: | HARROGATE |
| Postcode District: | HG3 |
| Postcode Area: | HG |
| Os Grid Reference: | SE256625 |
Shaw Mills is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill, in Nidderdale in the Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the valley of Thornton Beck, a tributary of the River Nidd, 6miles north west of Harrogate.
The village probably takes its name from a corn mill kept by one Robert Shaw in the 16th century.[1] In 1812 John and George Metcalfe began spinning flax in the Low Mill at Shaw Mills[2] The High Mill and Low Mill both closed by 1861, but in about 1890 were restarted for silk-spinning. The mills closed soon after the First World War.[3] An industrial settlement developed in the 19th century to serve the mills. And it is now derelict and about to fall down
. Bernard Jennings. A History of Nidderdale. 1992. 1 85072 114 9.