Photograph © George Stebbing-Allen
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Bourn Windmill
Location Grid reference: TL 312 580
OS sheet: 153
Postcode: CB23 2SU
About 11 miles west of Cambridge, off B1046. Reached via A1198 Royston to Huntingdon road.
Mill is ¾ mile east of Caxton, signposted on open days only.
An open trestle post mill, extensively repaired and with most machinery intact.
A mill is recorded on the site in 1636.
Opening times 2017 May to September, last Sunday in the month and National Mills Sunday, 14.00 to 16.00.
(14 May, 25 June, 23 July, 13 August, 10 September). Other times by appointment.
Further details from web
site.
National Mills Weekend opening times 2017 Sunday only, 14.00-16.00.
Contact Head of Properties and Green Spaces,
Cambridge Past Present & Future (formerly Cambridge Preservation Society),
Wandlebury Ring, Gog Magog Hills, Babraham, Cambridge CB22 3AE. Tel. 01223
243830.
Web site
http://www.bourn.org.uk/index.asp?pageid=544853 or
http://cambridgeppf.org/bourn-post-mill.shtml
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