Skidby Walkington A1079 Windmill

A164

Skidby B1233

Cottingham

To Hull Willerby

Skidby Windmill is 4 miles to the south of Beverley off the A164, in the village of Skidby.

Skidby Windmill is open daily 10am - 5pm including Bank Holidays (except Christmas, New Year and Good Friday).

Skidby Windmill Café open Tuesday - Sunday. The Museum of and Museum of East For information about Educational visits, shop, activities and party bookings, please ring 01482 392773. East Riding Rural Life Riding Rural Life

Skidby East Riding of HU16 5TF Tel: 01482 848405 & 01482 842889 (fax) Yorkshire’s last Explore a genuine The ... working Windmill! working mill! granary of the North

Built in 1821, Skidby Windmill has been Skidby Windmill produces its own wholemeal flour, For centuries, the Wolds have been devoted grinding grain almost continually for nearly two ground between one of its three pairs of mill- to growing grain. At the Museum of East centuries! stones, and powered by its four 12 metre sails, each Riding Rural Life, you can explore the history weighing over 1.25 tonnes apiece. of the farming landscape and its village The Wolds were the “bread basket” of communities, told in their own words by the Yorkshire, and in the last century, over 200 Weather permitting, the mill tower echoes to the people who worked and lived on the land. corn windmills dominated the landscape. rumble and creak of the stones and sails every Agricultural depression and changing weekend, as locally-grown wheat is turned into flour. From the horse-drawn ploughs which technology led to the closure of most of these prepared the land in winter, to the wooden Apart from the upper storage floors, all the mill by the end of the 19th century... now only flails used to thresh the wheat grain from the workings can be explored by visitors. Skidby remains at work. chaff, the farming year is chronicled through historic implements and fascinating photographs.

Meet the Thompson family, who owned the mill for over a century, and many other fascinating characters from the villages of the East Riding, all of whom have their own stories to tell about life in the countryside.

Threshing with a portable engine at Leconfield 1904

Annual Sunday School Outing at Lockington Station 1910