This year, SPAB’s National Mills Weekend will take place on 10 and 11 May. It 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.
This year, SPAB are encouraging everyone (owner, volunteer, neighbour, or visitor) to share and display images of participating mills. These can be recent photographs or artworks (including embroideries, collages, films, or videos), or paintings, or drawings, and even old maps, postcards, or posters. To share your images go to the #NationalMillsWeekend Facebook page. Please remember to credit the copyright owner and photographer where known.
To check whether your local wind or water mill is opening during the weekend click on the individual site website or follow this link for further details: https://www.spab.org.uk/whats-on/events/national-mills-weekend-2025
SPAB-owned Fladbury Mill and Kibworth Harcourt Post Mill, which aren’t normally open to the public, will also be open for the weekend. To book go to the SPAB website.
Industrial Heritage Networks 
SPAB are encouraging us to visit mills but seem to have removed the list of mills, opening times and contact details from their webpages. Some years back this was a fantastic resource searchable by county and up to date before the weekend, then it became clunkier and less good and now it seems to have disappeared altogether. A great shame in my opinion. Some of us like to look for clusters of mills that can be visited but it is getting harder. Not helped when many sites all decide to open on just Sunday afternoon say, perhaps only for three hours.
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