Holgate Windmill, York’s last surviving windmill and the oldest 5-sailed windmill in the country is now fully restored and producing traditional stone-ground flour.
The mill shop is open for flour sales every Saturday morning between 10 and 12. We are also take orders each week for 5kg bags of flour (wheat £7.50 and spelt £11.00). If you are interested please send your request through the general contact form on the website with your name, contact number, order details and preferred Saturday date for collection. Orders should be sent by Thursday evening each week to be ready for collection on Saturday morning.
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We are pleased to announce that we will be open again next year. Full details of our open days and events are on our website. The first event of 2022 will be York Residents Festival on the weekend of 29 and 30th of January where York residents can have free entry to the mill. #holgatewindmill #holgatewindmillpreservationsociety #opendays #visityork ✨ Visit York ✨ #exploreyork #yorkresidentsfestival
Hope you all enjoyed the fireworks last night. This great photo reposted thank you from @six_colour_pictures Enthusiasticslly embracing the lifestyle of a hermit. Which has its advantages when you have started hanging out in your loft for fun and see this kind of thing. All the ooohs and ahhhs for the ever lovely HolgateWindmill 🧨 #guyfawkes #rememberremember #whizzbanger #babyyourenotafirework #fireworks #yorkwindmill #holgatewindmill #bonfirenight #fireworks
The sky was brilliant blue but I thought tweaking it to black to match the mill's fresh coat of paint would have an interesting effect.
The sky was brilliant blue on this late October afternoon, but I thought tweaking it to black would have an interesting effect in combination with the mill’s fresh coat of black paint.
Many congratulations to Sarah who works at Acomb Primary School in York has been voted runner up in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region in the World Bread Awards! Sarah is the cook at the school and uses our flour at least twice a week to make pizzas, homemade garlic and herb bread, oaty apple crumble and banana brownies for the children. #holgatewindmill #acombprimaryschool #worldbreadawards #stonegroundflour #windmillflour