A Dales mill will star in BBC's popular Restoration programme tonight.

Viewers will be able to vote for vital restoration work to be carried out on the eighteenth-century Gayle Mill, near Hawes.

Funding has been raised to convert the building into a learning centre but the North-East Civic Trust needs to find further cash to restore its 250-year-old water system, one of the oldest still remaining.

Griff Rhys Jones, who presents Restoration, said his visit to Gayle Mill has been a lovely surprise. "I have never been in Wensleydale before and I am convinced this is the most beautiful place in the world," he said

The mill was built in 1776 as a cotton factory and for more than two centuries harnessed the power of water flowing through the village .

Restoration starts at 9pm tonight on BBC2.

The final judging of the competition to find the public's favourite entry, takes place on Sunday, August 8.