Photograph © Burwell Museum
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Stevens' Windmill, Burwell
Location Grid reference: TL 590 664
OS sheet: 154
Postcode: CB25 0HL
About 10 miles north east of Cambridge, off B1102 in Burwell village. Follow signs for Burwell Museum.
Parking in Gardiner Memorial Hall car park in High Street.
A tarred brick and clunch (a local hard chalk-like stone) tower mill built in 1820 and working until around 1955.
Grade II* Listed building. The mill has undergone a major restoration
as part of a £420,000 project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Burwell Museum adjoining.
Opening times 2017 The museum is open 1100 - 1700 Sunday, Thursday & Bank Holiday Mondays
from Easter to end October, plus other times as on web site.
National Mills Weekend opening times 2017 Saturday
11.00 - 16.00 (free admission to mill) & Sunday 11.00 - 17.00 Milling, subject to suitable weather conditions.
Tours of the mill. Bread making etc.,
Last mill tour entry 15.00.
Contact Paul Hawes, tel. 01638 742847 (home),
or leave a message on the museum answering machine, tel. 01638 605544 .
Web site www.burwellmuseum.org.uk
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