Explore! Mills on the River Wye

Interactive learning workshops aimed at home educators, targeted at different age groups. Sessions will be run on a different theme, with role play, museum object handling, crafts and activities.

In September, we’ll look at the history of mills on the River Wye. In 1816, more than 30 mills were dotted along the Wye, grinding corn into flour, ‘fulling’ cloth, making paper, and sawing wood from the surrounding Chilterns’ woodland. In this sessions, we’ll particularly look at cloth milling, and have a go at weaving fabric!

Tickets are only required for participating children, and children must be accompanied by an adult throughout the sessions.

Tickets £7.35 per child

Time slots:

• Ages 4 – 6: 11.30am – 12.30pm
• Ages 7 – 11: 12.30 – 1.30pm

Please note these age ranges are recommendations rather than rules, and is an indication of who the session will be best for.

If you have multiple children who fall into different age categories, it’s okay to bring both to one session. Please select whichever session you think will be most appropriate for your children. We’ll do our best to accommodate children who fall outside of the recommended age range, and will have resources available from both sessions that can be made available. Please note that if bringing younger children to the 7-11 session, some of the museum objects we offer for handling might require closer adult supervision.