National Mills Weekend 2012 Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th May 2012 Welcome to the National Mills Weekend website. CLICK HERE to search for Windmills and Watermills you can visit in your area over National Mills Weekend! National Mills Weekend is the annual festival of our milling heritage and provides you with a fantastic opportunity to visit mills, many of which are not usually open to the public. This year it takes place on the 12th and 13th May and we are celebrating the fact that many Traditional Mills are at the Heart of the Community! Flour Mills, Paper Mills, Woollen Mills, Silk Mills - all of these types of mill are represented and open to view. You can see many of them working, enabling you to get a real sense of what it was and indeed is like to work in a mill. Some of the mills still work commercially. There are special events over the weekend hosted by many of the mills, lots for kids to do and get involved with - fun for all the family. Why not make a day of it? Use our pages to locate mills in your area which are open and create a tour. Follow the links to the mill's own web pages to get more information to plan your visit. See your local press for further information. Search for mills open in your area: To find the mills open in your area, search for your county in our Windmills and Watermills pages. Given the number of mills open, we have divided the mills by their type - Windmills or Watermills. We are grateful to the mill owners for opening their mills to the public and for providing us with information on their opening hours. The SPAB Mills Section, who organises this annual event, is not responsible for the content of external websites. We try to ensure that all information provided is correct, but we are reliant on mill owners to keep us updated of changes to their opening dates and hours.
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