Waltham Windmill & Museum of Rural Life 2025

This six storey and 6-sail working tower windmill was built in 1878 by John Saunderson of Louth. Within the grounds of the windmill there is a miniature railway, a museum dedicated to rural life with an RAF Grimsby Exhibition. Also Grimsby telephone museum, an old sweet shop selling favourites from the 1920s-1970s and a café housed in the body of an old Great Northern Railway six-wheel carriage.

Contacts

Operator: Waltham Windmill Trust

Address: Brigsley Road Waltham Grimsby Lincolnshire DN37 0JX

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Open Days & Times

Easter-Sep Sat-Sun & BHol, also Tue-Sun in Spring/Summer school hols. 1100-1600. Visit website or facebook for more details.

Travel

By Rail: Grimsby Town / 5 miles

Facilities

Parking
Refreshments
Souvenir Shop
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The mill has two pairs of French millstones (for grinding flour) and two pairs of Derbyshire Peak stones (for grinding coarser materials such as animal feed).