• Sarehole Mill has a team of 10 volunteer millers, 15 volunteer gardeners and eight volunteer guides. The site received 14,383 visitors in 2019.[3].
  • JRR Tolkien grew up across the road from Sarehole Mill and in later life he would draw on its rural surroundings to create Middle-earth.
  • It's our Explore Sarehole Open Day today where you can wander round the Mill without the need for a guide.
  • 2,989 Followers, 380 Following, 291 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sarehole Mill (@sareholemill).
  • This prompted a long campaign by local people to restore the building. This was done and Sarehole Mill was opened to the public as a City Museum in 1969.
  • Sarehole Mill, Birmingham. 6.094 beğenme · 2 kişi bunun hakkında konuşuyor · 3.887 kişi buradaydı. Sarehole is currently closed to the general public.
  • In Carpenter's biography, Tolkien was quoted as saying, "There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool (at Sarehole) and I learned to climb it.
  • Sarehole Mill was first built as a corn grinding mill but has only been used for rolling sheet metal, grinding blades and wire rolling.
  • This is a drawing of Sarehole Mill, believed to have been drawn by the young Tolkien brothers. It depicts the mill as it was when they were young.
  • Afterwards we took a tour of Sarehole Mill itself, and although the water mill is closed for repairs, you can still walk around the mill pond and visit the cafe.