Daily 10:30am to 5pm throughout the year (except Christmas to mid-January).
Please check the Visiting and Exhibitions section for full details.
Little Salkeld Watermill
Working Mill, Tearoom, Breadmaking Courses, Bakery, Millshop, GalleryOpening Times
The Watermill, Little Salkeld, Penrith, Cumbria. CA10 1NN
Phone: 01768 881523
Fax: 01768 881047
The Stones
The millstones are made from French Burr stone, a very hard type of flint-like stone quarried near Paris. The stone was brought over in sections in the late 19th Century and then bound together with metal bands by a firm in Liverpool. They weigh over a half ton each.
The inside surfaces of the stones are dressed - that is they have sets of grooves called the "lands" and "furrows" cut in them using a special pattern. These grind the grain and channel it from the centre - the "eye" - to the edges as milled flour.