- Located in Hall Green, Sarehole Mill is a 15-minute drive south from Birmingham’s city center. Parking is free. Public buses stop close to the main entrance.
- Sarehole Mill is one of only two surviving working watermills in Birmingham.
- In the 1850s a steam engine was installed and a chimney built, which provides Sarehole Mill with its distinctive silhouette.
- Sarehole Mill has a connection with two famous Birmingham figures: the industrialist Matthew Boulton leased the mill between 1756 and 1761.
- Sarehole Mill was the inspiration for the village and mill in The Hobbit, since JRR Tolkien used to live in the area and spent much of his childhood by the mill.
- Worth visiting in its own right, and linked to two of Birmingham’s most famous residents too – that’s Sarehole Mill.
- The Sarehole Mill standing on the Cole Bank Road, is a fine example of one of more than fifty water mills that existed in Birmingham at one time.[1].
- Sarehole mill, Birmingham. ... Four miles south of central Birmingham in the Hall Green area lies the inspiration for Tolkien’s Shire – the former hamlet of Sarehole.
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