Useful Contacts

General

Mills Archive Trust: extensive collection of documentary and photographic records of mills, many of which can be viewed online. It also has a shop selling mill-related books and images.

The Templeman Library at the University of Kent: houses collections of mill photographs and documents

Windmill World: Information on many mills (both wind and water powered) in the UK and elsewhere

Mill Drawings: Computer-generated technical drawings of windmills and watermills across the UK and beyond

Crafty Tech: Computer-generated animated drawings of vintage mill and other machinery

Milling and baking

Traditional Cornmillers Guild (TCMG)

Campaign for Real Bread

Cope Seeds & Grain: Organic grain suppliers in Lincolnshire

See our Technical Advice page for information on Health & Safety

See our Planning and Conservation page for Bread and Flour Regulations

Water management and hydropower

Fish pass approval

Harnessing hydroelectric power

British Hydropower Association (BHA)

See also our Planning and Conservation page

Regional and international mill websites

Essex Industrial Archeology Group 

Hampshire Mills Group

Midland Wind and Water Mills Group

North UK Mills Group

Norfolk Mills

North East

North West Mills Group

Suffolk Mills Group

Sussex Mills Group

Wessex Mills Group (Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire)

Cymdeithas Melinau Cymru (Welsh Mills Society)

Mills and Millers of Ireland

The International Molinological Society (TIMS)

De Hollandsche Molen (The Dutch Mill Society)

FDMF (Federation des Moulins de France, the national mills group for France)

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