Eling Tide
Mill
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Eling Tide
Mill is a water mill that harnesses the power of the
tide to grind wheat into wholemeal flour.
Situated on
the edge of Southampton Water beside the renowned
New Forest, there has been a mill on the site for
over 900 years, although it has had to be rebuilt
several times, with the current building being some
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Eling Tide
Mill, although abandoned in the 1940s, had the great
good fortune to survive until it was restored
between 1975 and 1980, at which time it re-opened as
both a working mill, and a museum to this part of
our industrial heritage. It is the only fully
working and productive tide mill in the United
Kingdom, once again producing flour as it had
throughout the last Millennium. It is, in fact, one
of only two productive tide mills in the entire
world (to the best of our knowledge), and the only
one producing what it was built to produce.
The mill
originally had two waterwheels, each driving two
sets of millstones. We have restored one wheel with
one set of millstones and left the other side
unrestored so that people can see the machinery
without modern safety screens around it.
We
run the working machinery each day when the tide is
right and produce and sell flour to visitors and
local customers.
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Visit by Shadow Minister to Eling Tide Mill on June
20, 2008 |
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Eling
Tide Mill was visited by Eric Pickles, Shadow
Secretary of State for Communities and Local
Government along with representatives of Totton Town
council and the New forest MP Dr. Julian Lewis.
Miller Dave Plunkett demonstrated the mill in
action, supported by other HMG members, producing
flour. |
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Opening Times |
The Mill is open to visitors from
10.00am to 4.00pm, Wednesday to Sunday all year
(Christmas Day and Boxing Day excepted), plus Bank
Holiday Mondays.
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Where We Are |
OS map ref: SU 365125
The Tollbridge
Totton
SOUTHAMPTON
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Eling Tide Mill is on the
southern edge of the town of Totton & Eling, on the
west side of the northern end of Southampton Water
on the South Coast of Great Britain; it is
approximately two miles west of Southampton in the
county of Hampshire, just outside the New Forest. |
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For opening times and further information
telephone 02380 869575 (admission charge)
Its web site is
found here :
The information on this page is from
the web site. |
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