National Mills Weekend 2025

Event details

Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 May, nationwide

This year, National Mills Weekend will focus on the way that mills past and present have been recorded in pictorial form with the theme Mills in Time. 

The weekend is an annual celebration promoted by the Mills Section of SPAB.  Across the country hundreds of mills – including some not normally open to the public – will be taking part. 

With their elegant turning sails or distinctive waterwheels, it’s not surprising that windmills and watermills appear so frequently in paintings and photographs, posters and postcards. These instantly recognisable buildings feature in some of Britain’s most popular works of art: in a BBC poll, John Constable’s 'The Hay Wain', featuring Flatford Mill in Suffolk, was voted the nation’s second best-loved painting. 

This year, we are encouraging everyone - whether owner, volunteer, neighbour or visitor – to share and display images participating mills. These can be your recent photographs or artworks (including embroideries, collages, films or videos), or paintings or drawings and even old maps, postcards or posters.

Share your images on the #NationalMillsWeekend Facebook page. Please credit the copyright owner and photographer where known. 

Check with your local wind or water mill, what time they will be opening during the weekend.

SPAB-owned Fladbury Mill and Kibworth Harcourt Post Mill, which aren't normally open to the public, will be open for te weekend. Please check here again for details of Fladbuy Mill opening.

Pre-book your timed visit to Kibworth Harcourt Post Mill

Photo credit: Bridge Mill Devon, National Mills Weekend © Martin Watts