Combe Mill | Blenheim Estate

V12.61

Registered Charity Number 1111029

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, April, May, July, August and October and on other occasions by appointment. Educational visits for schools or clubs can be booked.