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A Grade II* Listed Building, Combe Mill Museum is the original ‘power house’ of the old Blenheim Palace Estate timber mill and workshops. This working industrial museum offers visitors a fascinating insight into work that went on behind the scenes of the Blenheim Estate over the last century or so.
Visitors get a feel for the past as they enter this authentic building where they are able to talk with Society members operating the machinery and demonstrating lost skills. The exhibits will be of interest to the whole family and children are catered for too.
During steaming days there are continuous demonstrations at the forge, and demonstrations of wood turning and other crafts upstairs in the Pattern Shop.
Outside there are several examples of portable single cylinder engines operating machinery.
Refreshments are available in the shop and there is also a riverside picnic area.
Visitors to Blenheim Palace wishing to experience all aspects of estate life should also come and visit Combe Mill.
The museum is open and ‘in steam’ on the third Sunday of March thru’ October each year and on other occasions by appointment. Educational visits for schools can be booked.
We are not a commercial sawmill -
No more steaming until 15 March 2009
Click here for 2009 Calendar of Open Days.
Click here for educational visits.
Click here to see about booking a visit.
Press coverage of the Mill here
Open between 10am and 5pm when in steam
Thinking of visiting ....?
Take a preview by clicking on the right so see a film made by Frank Huddleston
