You probably know us as a lovely place for children to see the animals, run around in beautiful countryside and let off steam in our state-of-the-art playbarn - but there’s a lot more to Sacrewell.
With the help of £1.4 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, our 18th century watermill is being transformed into a national centre for milling excellence - take a tour and find out how your great-grandparents got their daily bread. Foodies can also join a tractor ride around the fields of our tenant farmers Riverford Organic Farms (it’s on our land).
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Our home used to be a working Mill. We still have a lot of the history from the working flour mill in a museum created in our home. The water now feeds through a Turbine which generates our electricity. After renovating it, we're now selling our Mill in Oxforshire :-(
Looks very good, great for conservation. The old farm I grow up on did this, but by the end of 60s it had stopped and lots of the hedges had gone. Fields opened up for the new agriculture.
Thank you very much. I want to get a tattoo of how a mill works and I needed this video to see each step. I always thought water wheels were beautiful decoration as a kid but growing and understand their mechanical purpose made me love engineering. Thank you again
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Hello!!! 👋😄 Great video! I love water mills! 😊 A sustainable industry to produce flour or electric energy too today! I wish every mill was restructured and used or as a museum or to produce renovable electric energy. Ancient and contemporary together. 😊 Thanks for your wonderful video! 😉👍
Thanks for your question James, we've asked our expert Stuart (who you can see in the video) and he says: "There are a number of variations of billhook that have developed in different regions. The ones with a 'V' notch in the end may well have been developed for this reason. I have a couple of this type and I certainly use the notch for pushing loose twigs into a hedge to tidy it up. I certainly don't think the notch is just there as a decorative feature, nor is it solely for use on blackthorn or briars. Our forbears generally designed tools for a purpose." So the answer to your question is... yes! But you can also use the 'v' on the end for pushing non-thorny twigs into the right position.
That is so wonderfully organic ! So respectful of the environment . It reminds me of how grateful I am when I can hang clothes out on the clothesline. Just the energy of the sun ! And in your case , water. Mother Nature has given us so many gifts. Best wishes to you.
I've got what may be the only English style hedgerow in Japan! Interestingly, there is a Japanese style billhook, which is the "basic" curved billhook shape with a single edge on the inside of the curve. What's different is it has a very long handle - around 50cm, a bit like the Yorkshire billhook, although the head is relatively small - a little smaller than the single handed models shown here. Hedgelaying is a totally unknown art in Japan though - largely because animals were never kept in fields!
