Water Mill Demonstration at Otterton Mill

Milling has taken place at Otterton Mill for over 1000 years. This short clip shows Otterton's volunteer millers producing wholemeal flour through the current 300 year old process. Otterton Mill produces it's flour twice a month and welcomes visitors, there is no fee. See www.ottertonmill.com for dates and times.

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• otterton
• water mill
• milling
• volunteer millers

[Robinson4643]

This is why I love youtube, thank you for uploading this. 

[spaulsmith127]

Cheers for sharing. It was smashing to watch the process and be able to show me own lad how it works.

[WessCNY]

@hallo1521 Oh, thank you for the information. I certainly plan on visiting the mill when I travel to the UK in a few months.

[hallo1521]

@WessCNY

The stones are not changed, they where "dressed" that mean that the stones have "rifles" which cut the corn into pieces, this rifles have to sharp by a hammer, when they where used.

How often this is by the way they where used, in old times you had to dress them once in three month(good stone quality)

In Mill-museum today maybe all 1-2 years.

[WessCNY]

How often do the stones need to be changed?

[anthonylynch1]

Very relaxing..........nicely filmed