Breaking Bread!

Join Chiltern Rangers and Wycombe Museum to learn more about the process of milling grain into flour, and have a go yourself!

This is the final event in a four-part series on milling on the RIver Wye in High Wycombe. In this installment, we’ll be exploring the story of the earliest kind of mills – corn mills.

Wycombe’s river, the river Wye, is the reason many of us are living in the town. Historically, its waters attracted people to the valley and by 1816, more than 30 mills were dotted along the Wye, grinding corn into flour, ‘fulling’ cloth, making paper, and sawing wood from the surrounding Chilterns’ woodland.