• One of two surviving water mills in the Birmingham area, Sarehole Mill provided the inspiration for the writer JRR Tolkien, who lived nearby and visited as a boy.
  • 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.
  • Sarehole Mill was first built as a corn grinding mill but has only been used for rolling sheet metal, grinding blades and wire rolling.
  • Sarehole Mill, Birmingham.
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  • Sarehole Mill is a 250 year old working watermill.There has been a mill on the site since 1542, and the current building dates from the mid-18th Century.
  • 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.
  • In the 1850s a steam engine was installed and a chimney built, which provides Sarehole Mill with its distinctive silhouette.
  • Sarehole Mill is a treasured Birmingham landmark. Help our charity restore the waterwheel to full working order. Get the Mill milling again!
  • Sarehole Mill is a Grade II listed water mill (in an area once called Sarehole) on the River Cole in Hall Green, Birmingham.
  • Sadly the waterwheel at Sarehole Mill is currently out of action and we are unable to operate the machinery due to flood damage at the site last the year.