Photograph © Jim Woodward-Nutt

Town Mill, Lyme Regis

Location

Grid reference: SY 341 922
OS sheet: 193
Postcode: DT7 3RN
In Mill Lane, off Combe Street, Lyme Regis.

A stone-built watermill, last worked commercially in 1926. Restoration was completed in 2001 when a Victorian 13 ft iron waterwheel with wooden buckets was acquired from South Devon. This drives two sets of millstones grinding locally grown organic wheat. A hydro-electric turbine installed in 2006 generates electricity for the mill and supplies its surplus to the grid.

Opening times

Easter to October, Tuesday to Sunday & bank holiday Mondays, 11.00-16.00. November to Easter, Saturdays, Sundays & school holidays, 11.00-16.00. Parties & school visits by arrangement.

National Mills Weekend opening times

Saturday and Sunday, 11.00-16.00.

Contact

Robert Eliot, tel. 01297 443579 (mill).

Email

info@townmill.org.uk

Web site

www.townmill.org.uk