National Mills Weekend 2008 will be held on Saturday 10th and Sunday
11th May 2008.
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here for the Press Release.
Mills that will be open are shown below
BEDFORDSHIRE
Stevington windmill
Stotfold watermill
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Ford End watermill
Open: Sunday
Contact: Chris Tugby
Lacey Green windmill
Post code (for sat nav): HP27 0PG
Quainton windmill
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Bourn windmill
Great Mill, Haddenham
Grid Ref: TL458745
Open: Saturday and Sunday
Contact: Nick and Veronique Baker
01353 749667
nick@baker-malone.co.uk
Hinxton watermill
Post code (for sat nav): CB10 1RD
Open: Sunday 14.30-17.30
www.cpswandlebury.org
Contact: Janet Cornish
Madingley windmill
Post code (for sat nav): CB3 7PH
Open: Saturday and Sunday 11.00-15.00
Contact: Matthew Mortlock
Wicken Corn windmill
CHESHIRE
Dunham Massey Saw Mill
Post code (for sat nav): WA14 4SB
Open: Saturday and Sunday 12.00-16.00
Contact: Sarah Merriman
Stretton Watermill & Salt Museum
CUMBRIA
DERBYSHIRE
Heage windmill
Post code (for sat nav): DE56 2AH
Open: Saturday and Sunday 11.00-16.00
www.heagewindmill.co.uk
Contact: Margaret Bonsall
Stainsby watermill
Post code (for sat nav): S44 5QJ
Open: Saturday and Sunday 11.00-16.30
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Contact: Rae Godfrey
DEVON
The Bridge Mill, Mill Lane,
Bridgerule
Post code (for sat nav): EX22 7EL
Open: Sunday 10.30-16.30
Contact: Alan and Rosie Beat
01288 381341
rosie@smallholders.org
Bickleigh Mill
Post code (for sat nav): EX16 8RG
Open: Saturday 10.00-22.00 and Sunday 10.00-17.30
www.bickleighmill.com
Contact: Fiona Collier
Otterton Mill
Amanda Richards 01803 863168
DORSET
Ann Simon 01371 830285
Sturminster Newton watermill
Open: Saturday and Sunday 11.00-17.00
Contact: Peter Loosmore 01747 854355
EAST and WEST SUSSEX
Glynde Wind Pump on site
Amateur radio station : callsign GB0HSM
Halnaker windmill
Open: Saturday and Sunday all day
High Salvington windmill
Open: Sunday 14.30-17.00
Ifield watermill
Hyde Drive, Ifield, Crawley, West Sussex
Post code (for sat nav): RH11 0PL
Open: Sunday 14.30-17.00
Contact: Ted Henbery / Janet Roskilly
01293 524447 / 01293 539088
Jack windmill
will be open exclusively to Members of the Jack and Jill Windmills Society
Jill windmill
Open: Saturday and Sunday 11.00-17.00
Refreshments in Roundhouse
Free entry and free parking
Lowfield Heath windmill
Lurgashall Watermill
at The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
Post code (for sat nav): PO18 0EU
Open: Saturday and Sunday 10.30-18.00
www.wealddown.co.uk
Contact: Cathy Clark 01243 811363
office@wealddown.co.uk
Park Mill Batemans
Polegate windmill
Open: Sunday 11.00-17.00
Contact: 01323 734496
Rottingdean windmill
Open: Saturday and Sunday 14.00-16.30
Contact: John Cooper 01273 306910
Shipley windmill
Open: Sunday 14.00-16.00
Stone Cross windmill
Open: Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00
Morris dancers
West Blatchington windmill
Open: Sunday 11.00-17.00
Amateur radio, Model loco display, Stationary engine operating, Origami
display & demonstration, 2nd-hand book stall, Tea, coffee & cakes in the
North Barn
Windmill Hill windmill
Open: Saturday and Sunday 14.00-17.00
Amateur Radio station on site
ESSEX
Alderford Street watermill
Open: Sunday 14.00-17.00
www.essexcc.gov.uk
Contact: Geoff Wood
Ashdon windmill
Bocking windmill
Post code (for sat nav): CM7 5LQ
Open: Sunday 10.00-17.00
www.essexcc.gov.uk
Contact: Christine Burden
Finchingfield windmill
Fyfield watermill
Post code (for sat nav): CM5 0RZ
Open: Sunday 11.00-17.00
Contact: Christine Baker
fyfield_mill@yahoo.co.uk
Stansted Mountfitchet windmill
Open: Sunday 14.00-18.00
Contact: Mrs D P Honour
01279 647213
Thaxted windmill
Open: Saturday and Sunday 14.00-17.00
Contact: Len Farren 01371 830285
GREATER LONDON
House Mill, Bromley by Bow
Upminster smock mill
Post code (for sat nav): RM14 2QH
Open: Saturday and Sunday 14.00-17.00
Norman Plastow 020 8947 2825
HAMPSHIRE
Whitchurch Silk Mill
HEREFORDSHIRE
Watch out for posters to help you find the mills.
Visits are by courtesy of the various owners – respect their privacy.
Please take care -You visit all these mills at your own risk.
1. Kington, Hergest Mill NGR.:SO288561
Saturday 10am.-6pm. From Kington church go down Hergest Road for ½ mile; mill
is on left. Free entry. Limited parking. An 18th century building on an
ancient site, formerly fed by a long leat from the river Arrow. Most of the
main internal iron machinery survives, having been replaced in the mid 19th
century. Part of the timber framing on the ground floor is much older. The
fixed, lower millstones of the 4 pairs are still in place. There were once two
overshot wheels in line, but these and the ancillary machines have gone.
2. Eastnor, Clenchers Mill NGR.:SO731351
Saturday, 11am-1pm. 1½ miles S of Eastnor church, beside Clenchers Mill Lane,
leading to Bromsberrow. Free entry. Limited parking at ford, 100 yards away.
This 18th century timber-framed mill, part of the Eastnor Castle Estate, has
lost its water supply, but retains most of its machinery, and has been
repaired. The upright shaft and the fine wooden gear on the first floor are
original. The fairly large iron overshot waterwheel is of 1820 - probably the
oldest one surviving in Herefordshire.
3. Much Cowarne, Cowarne Mill NGR.:SO620467
Sunday 12-5pm. To reach the mill, take the lane southwards from the minor
crossroads near the church and keep going for about 700 yards. Very limited
parking. Outside viewing only. The mill has been converted to a private
dwelling. Donations (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings). After
being rebuilt in brick about 110 years ago this mill was one of the last to
work in Herefordshire. The overshot waterwheel can be seen turning with water
from the large pond.
4. Rowlestone, Rowlestone Mill NGR.:SO370270
Saturday 2-6pm. Entrance to mill is ¼ mile down hill to W (towards
Walterstone from Rowlestone church) No parking at mill. Parking at village
hall (by church). Donations (to Rowlestone village hall). Teas. One of the
more remote corn mills, in a steep, wooded valley. It worked until the end of
the war, but lost most of its machinery soon afterwards. It retains its
external overshot waterwheel, and this will be turning. The water for the
wheel was taken from the top of a waterfall, some distance upstream, and the
leat to the mill is dramatic.
5. nr. Staunton on Arrow, Court of Noke Mill NGRSO372595
Sunday 10am.-4pm. On N side of road, halfway between Shobdon and Lyonshall.
Turn into lane on W side of house. Large car park is within 50 yards on
right-hand side. Donations (to Staunton church). Visitors may also walk round
the water gardens of the early 18th century house. The gardens were supplied
from the river Arrow. The water then fed a waterwheel here at the adjoining
farm. Its main purpose was to grind feed for the herd of prize Hereford
cattle. The 19th century low breast-shot waterwheel and complicated iron gear
is complete. It powered one pair of millstones, plus belt drives to whatever
farm machines might be required.
6. Clodock, near Longtown, Clodock Mill NGR.:SO326273
Saturday 10.30am.-5pm. & Sunday 2-5pm. Mill entrance is by the W side of
the bridge over the River Monnow near Clodock church. Limited parking.
Donations (to Air Ambulance). Light refreshments on Sat. Tea/coffee on Sun. A
water-powered corn mill in a lovely situation, formerly fed by a leat from a
weir below the church. The external breast-shot waterwheel is under repair.
The machinery is mostly of iron and of the 19th century. The history of the
building and its working parts is quite complicated. The large waterwheel, two
pairs of stones, and the ancillary machinery are complete and in good
condition. Near the mill is a separate turbine, formerly driven off the same
leat to generate electricity.
7. Kingsland, Arrow Mill NGR.:SO437587
Sunday 11am.-2pm. Mill entrance is on W side of the A4110 road, just N of
the bridge over the River Arrow, at Arrow Green, 1½ miles S of Kingsland.
Limited parking. Free entry. One of the most impressive mills in
Herefordshire, a large 17th century timber-framed building with a low
breast-shot waterwheel – which should be turning. The 19th century machinery,
mostly of iron, and 3 pairs of millstones, are still in position. A machine
for beating out clover seeds, was driven by very old wooden gearing, and is
unique, as is the original beaten-earth ground floor of the mill. There is a
fine old flour dresser. In the NE corner of the mill was a hop kiln.
8. Lucton, Mortimer’s Cross Mill NGR.:SO426637
Sunday 10am.-4pm. Mortimer’s Cross is on the A4110, 1 mile S of Aymestrey. The
mill is on the N side of the B4362 road to Ludlow, just E of Mortimer’s Cross.
Large car park Entry £4, concession £3.50, children £2.50. Free to English
Heritage members. Tea and coffee. The waterwheel will be turning all day, but
only grinding corn between 3.00 & 4.00pm. The only workable water-powered corn
mill in Herefordshire, it dates from c.1750. The external breast-shot
waterwheel and machinery were replaced a little over a hundred years later. A
remarkably complete mill, with three pairs of stones, and all its machinery
and equipment. Alongside once stood a paper mill. A footpath leads along the
leat to the weir on the River Lugg.
9. Staunton on Arrow, Staunton Mill NGR.:SO369599
Sunday, 10am.-5pm. Down the hill from the church. Limited parking. Donations
(Staunton church). Originally built as part of a grand scheme, combining corn
milling with irrigation, in the 1650s. The present building is 18th century,
but most of the machinery is of iron, having been replaced a century later.
There are two overshot waterwheels, one on each side of the mill, each of
which drove two pairs of millstones. The big wooden flour dresser is of
interest, as is the sackhoist in the loft.
10. Hereford, Waterworks Museum NGR.:SO496393
Sunday 1-4pm. Good parking. S side of Broomy Hill, on W side of Hereford.
(Follow brown signs from Barton Road, off N end of Greyfriars Bridge) Entry
£3, Seniors £2, Children £1. Café. Water pumping station. Engines will be in
steam. Exhibits include 1920s wind-pump from Bridge Sollers, 1890
turbine-driven pump from Warwickshire, 1907 waterwheel from Carmarthenshire,
tiny 1912 Pelton wheel from Ross on Wye, 1880 turbine from Dorset and 1937
turbine from Kington.
11. Mordiford, Mordiford Mill NGR.:SO572372
Sunday 10.30am – 4.30pm. Do not park in yard in front of mill. Access is
off B4224, 100 yards S of mill, which is on S side of Mordiford village.
Limited parking. Free entry. A tall stone building of c.1840 on a steep site.
The large overshot waterwheel drove 19th century iron machinery and 2 pairs of
stones. The mill is under restoration to workable condition, although there is
no water supply at present.
For any further details please contact Alan Stoyel
HERTFORDSHIRE
Cromer windmill
Post Code (for sat nav): SG2 7QA
Open: Saturday and Sunday 14.30-17.00
Contact: Robin Webb
01763 271305
Mill Green Museum and Mill
Post code (for sat nav): AL9 5PD
Open: Saturday and Sunday 14.00-17.00 - plus ticketed breadmaking course
10am-5pm Saturday
www.welhat.gov.uk/museum
Contact: Linda Dobbs
Redbournbury watermill
Post code (for sat nav): AL3 6RS
Open: Sunday 10.30-17.30
www.redbournmill.co.uk
contact: Mandy James
ISLE of WIGHT
Bembridge windmill
JERSEY
de Quetivel Mill
Post code (for sat nav): JE3 7EF
Open: Saturday 10.00-16.00
www.nationaltrust.org.je
Contact: Dixie-Lee Whiteman
KENT
Chart Gunpowder Mills, Westbrook Walk, Faversham
Post code (for sat nav): ME13 8NS
Open: Saturday & Sunday 14.00-17.00
www.faversham.org
Contact: Tom Robinson
Honorary Curator, Chart Gunpowder Mills
01795 597886
Faversham1@aol.com
Crabble Corn Mill
Lower Rd, River, Dover, Kent
Post code (for sat nav): CT17 0UY
Open: Sunday 11.00- 17.00
www.ccmt.org.uk
Contact: Anthony Reid
Haxted Mill
Haxted Road, Edenbridge, Kent
Keston windmill
Post code (for sat nav): BR2 6BF
Open: Sunday 11.00-16.00
www.kestonwindmill.com
Contact: Philip and Elizabeth Anker
01689 852187
Union Mill Cranbrook
Post code (for sat nav): TN17 3AH
Open: Saturday and Sunday 14.30-17.00
www.unionmill.org.uk
Contact: Wynn Tremenheere
01580 712984
Meopham windmill
Open: Sunday 12.30-16.30
Contact: I B Kerr
01474 812794
LANCASHIRE
Lytham windmill
Lytham Green, Lytham
LEICESTERSHIRE
LINCOLNSHIRE
Mount Pleasant windmill Kirton in
Lindsey
Post code (for sat nav): DN21 4HH
Open: Saturday and Sunday 10.00-17.00
www.mountpleasantwindmill.co.uk
Contact: Mervin and Marie-Christine Austin
Sibsey Trader windmill
Post code (for sat nav): PE22 0SY
Open: Saturday 10.00-18.00 and Sunday 11.00-18.00
Contact: I Ansell
07718 320449
01205 750036 (the mill)
Waltham windmill
Post code (for sat nav): DN37 0JZ
Open: Saturday and Sunday 10.00-16.00
www.walthamwindmill.co.uk
Contact: Pip Carter 01472 823444
NORFOLK
Bircham windmill
Cley windmill
Denver windmill
Old Buckenham windmill
NORTH YORKSHIRE
Fountains Abbey watermill
Holgate windmill
Post code (for sat nav): YO26 4TX
Open: Saturday & Sunday 11.00-17.00
www.holgatewindmill.org
Contact: Brian Lambert
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Tuxford windmill,
Great North Road, Tuxford
OXFORDSHIRE
Ardington watermill
Post code (for sat nav): OX12 8PD
Open: by appointment only
Contact: Lockinge Estate Office
01235 833200
Chinnor windmill
Charney Bassett watermill
Map reference: SU 382 945
Open: Sunday 14.00-17.00
Contact: Bruce Hedge
01235 210612
bruce.hedge@virgin.net
RUTLAND
Whissendine windmill
Post code (for sat nav): LE15 7EH
Open: Saturday 10.00-12.00 - 14.00-16.00
Contact: Nigel Moon 01664 474172
SHROPSHIRE
Daniels Mill, Eardington,
Brignorth
Post code (for sat nav): WV16 5JL
Open: Saturday and Sunday 11.00-18.00
Contact: Alan George 01746 762753
SOMERSET
Dunster watermill, Dunster
Post code (for sat nav): TA24 6SW
Open: Saturday & Sunday 11.00-16.45
www.dunsterwatermill.co.uk
Contact: Mike Bushen
01643 821759
Nimmer Mill, Nimmer, near
Chard
Post code (for sat nav): TA20 3AD
Contact: Chris Black
01460 62731
Somerton watermill
Post code (for sat nav): TA11 7HP
Open: Saturday and Sunday 11.00-17.00 (milling demonstrations 12.00-15.00)
Contact: Graham Deane
01458 273265
grahamdeane9@aol.com
STAFFORDSHIRE
Broad Eye windmill, Stafford
SUFFOLK
Bardwell windmill
Post code (for sat nav): IP31 1AD
Open: Sunday 10.30-17.30
Contact: Enid Wheeler
01359 251331
Buttrum's Mill, Woodbridge
Open: Sunday 14.00-17.50
Contact: 01473 264755
Drinkstone Mills
Open: Saturday and Sunday 12.00-17.00
Contact: Christopher Rowe
07843 074700
Herringfleet marsh mill
Open: Sunday 13.00-17.00
Working demonstration wind permitting
Contact: 01473 264755
Pakenham watermill
Post code (for sat nav): IP31 2NB
Open: Saturday 14.00-17.30 and Sunday 11.00-17.30
www.pakenhamwatermill.co.uk
Contact: David Eddershaw or Roger Gillingham
Pakenham windmill
Open: Saturday and Sunday 14.00-17.30
Saxtead Green Post Mill
01728 685789
Stanton Post Mill
Post code (for sat nav): IP31 2AW
Open: Saturday and Sunday 12.00 - 18.00
Contact: Dominic & Linda Grixti
Thorpeness Post Mill
Open: Saturday and Sunday 11.00-13.00 and 14.00-17.00
Contact: 01394 384948
Woodbridge Tide Mill
Open: Saturday and Sunday 11.00-17.00
Contact: 01473 626618
SURREY
Elstead Mill
Post code (for sat nav): GU8 6LE
Open: Saturday and Sunday 12.00-23.00
Contact: Wynn Tremenheere
Shirley windmill
Open: Sunday 12.00-17.00
Contact: Tony Skriypcztk
020 8406 4676
TYNE & WEAR
WARWICKSHIRE
Charlecote Mill
Hampton Lucy, Warwick
Post code (for sat nav): CV35 8BB
Open: Sunday 11.00-17.00
www.charlecotemill.co.uk
Contact: John Bedington
01789 842072 or 01926 851127
WORCESTERSHIRE
Forge Mill Museum, Redditch
WALES
Melin Howell
Post code (for sat nav): LL65 4AL
Open: Saturday
Contact: Ivor Wyn Owen 01407 730240
St Fagans: National
History Museum
Trefriw Woollen Mills, Trefriw, Conwyn Valley, North Wales
Post code (for sat nav): LL27 0NQ
Open: Saturday & Sunday 10.00-17.00
www.t-w-m.co.uk
Contact: Elaine 01492 640462
elaine@t-w-m.co.uk
Y Felin, St. Dogmaels,
Pembrokeshire
Post code (for sat nav): SA43 3DY
Open: Saturday 10.00-17.00 & Sunday 14.00-17.00
www.yfelin.co.uk
Contact: Michael Hall
01239 613999