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Gayle Mill -Industrial evolution and Quaker Connections
Heritage Open Day: Explore this fascinating water powered sawmill in the heart of the Dales, and learn more of the connections it has with Quakers in North Yorkshire. Gayle Mill near Hawes in Wensleydale is a functioning water-powered sawmill, originally built in 1784 for the spinning of cotton grown in America.
Visit and see the Victorian woodworking machinery and our turbines in action and hear about its fascinating history, its involvement in the very early stages of the Industrial Revolution and its evolution into the sawmill it is today.
With particular reference to this year's HODs theme, there will be additional information regarding the Quaker network across the Yorkshire Dales, its connections with the Mill itself and how that network influenced the particular routes that the transportation of the cotton took and ultimately how that played a part in its evolution and change of function.
Visit and see the Victorian woodworking machinery and our turbines in action and hear about its fascinating history, its involvement in the very early stages of the Industrial Revolution and its evolution into the sawmill it is today.
With particular reference to this year's HODs theme, there will be additional information regarding the Quaker network across the Yorkshire Dales, its connections with the Mill itself and how that network influenced the particular routes that the transportation of the cotton took and ultimately how that played a part in its evolution and change of function.
Thu 12 Sep:1000-1600. Tours: 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400 & 1500; Free Entry.
Gayle Mill, Gayle, Hawes, North Yorkshire DL8 3RZ
Thu 12 September