Flitwick Mill

The Domesday Book

One of 6 mills on the river Flit, the mill was originally built by the Monks of Dunstable Priory. Records show a mill on this site since the 1085 Domesday.

Source - BBC Domesday Reloaded

Dip into the history

Restoration

Catch up on progress with the restoration and conversion of the mill

Stories

Dip into the history and the stories we have gathered along the way

Gallery

Browse a growing collection of photographs and drawings

Crown Wheel

The crown wheel is a horizontally mounted wheel on the first floor, the 'stone floor'. It is connected via an upright shaft from the great spur wheel on the ground floor. The crown wheel drives a shaft on the first floor from which a number of belts were used to drive machines such as the bolder, corn cake crusher, oat-roller and extractor fan.

Brush up on milling terms

Half the wheel now has buckets

February 13, 2018

Hot on our bucket list is finishing this job. We have folk arriving tomorrow to make a film about the machining of the drive system they want to see "real milling" rather than five axis precision CNC milling. It's just an industry thing really.

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