Pakenham Water Mill

Pakenham Water Mill

Pakenham Water Mill
Mill Road
Pakenham
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP31 2NB

Tel: 01284 724 075
E-Mail: info@pakenhamwatermill.org.uk

Web: Pakenham Water Mill

About Pakenham Water Mill

The parish of Pakenham is unique in Britain in having both a working watermill and a working windmill.
Pakenham Windmill
The 18th century watermill, the last working watermill in Suffolk and now owned by the Suffolk Building Preservation Trust, is on a Domesday site. Here, for almost a thousand years, millers have been using the simple technology of water power to produce stone-ground wholemeal flour from locally-grown wheat. The mill is maintained and operated by a team of dedicated volunteers who continue the tradition.
Water from Pakenham Fen collects in the beautiful mill pond to turn the 16 foot high iron water-wheel that drives the mill-stones which turn the wheat into flour. The friendly guide will show you how the mill works, how to hoist sacks of wheat to the top of the mill, what the damsel does, the 1904 Blackstone oil engine, and much more besides.
In the former miller's house next door you can see the old kitchen with its 18th C. brewing vat and bread oven.
There are pleasant walks beside the mill-pond, a beautiful setting with excellent opportunities for taking photographs, sketching and painting - or you can just sit and enjoy the view!