Visitor Information

Directions

Coldharbour Mill is only 5 minutes by car from junction 27 of the M5. Follow the signs to Willand (B3181), then the brown tourist signs saying ‘Working Wool Museum’ to Uffculme. There are bus connections from Exeter, Cullompton, Tiverton, and Taunton (see below). The nearest mainline railway station is Tiverton Parkway. Please click here for a Map.

Bus Routes:

The stop nearest the Mill is 'Russet Close/Coldharbour Mill'

Stagecoach Devon Route 1 ('Culm Valley Connect') Exeter/Tiverton/Exeter; seven days, but reduced service on Sundays & Public Holidays.

First Routes 92 Taunton/Exeter/Taunton & 92A Taunton/Tiverton/Taunton; seven days, but reduced service on Sundays & Public Holidays.

Opening Times

Christmas Holiday Closing:

The Mill will be open for self guided tours from 10.00am – 4.00pm Monday - Friday (Not open at weekends) - Until Friday 16th December 2011. 

The Mill & Shop will open for the New Year Steam Up - Saturday 31st December 2011 and Sunday 1st January 2012.

The Mill & Shop will re-open for tours &c. on Monday 9th January 2012.

Ticket Prices 2011

Self Guided Tour

Adult                                          £5.50

Child                                          £3.00

Family (2 adults + 2 children)       £13.50

Concession                                  £4.50

Steam Up & Self Guided Tour

Adult                                          £8.00 

Child                                          £4.50                                

Family (2 adults + 2 children)       £20.00

Concession                                  £7.50

Self Guided Tours.

Production of knitting wool at Coldharbour Mill can be followed on the self directed tour of the main spinning and weaving floor (Level 2).This is a unique journey through the different stages of making a yarn to a finished woven cloth. Visitors are able to see the original spinning and weaving machinery, some powered by the fully restored water wheel. 

Visitors may then go upstairs to Level 3 where machines from earlier eras are on display, together with the 'Puttee Story' which demonstrates one of the iconic products of the Fox business.

The Mill Shop

Open for tickets and souvenirs from 10.00am until 4.00pm  Monday - Friday (Not open at weekends & closed for the Christmas Holiday between Monday 19th December 2011 and Friday 6th January 2012).

The Gillbox Restaurant

Open daily from 10am until 5:30pm (March – October) Reduced hours between November & February telephone 0800 389 3859.

GROUP BOOKINGS WELCOME BY ARRANGEMENT

Details available from Museum Office.
If you would like to contact us, please email us info@coldharbourmill.org.uk or telephone the Mill office between 9:30am-1:00pm on 01884 840960

Access

Mobility impaired visitors can access the mill from the back entrance through the double red gates (please ask in the shop). The Factory and the Fox Gallery are fully accessible with the use of the lift. The steam complex is now accessible to wheel chair users.

The Gill Box Restaurant is currently inaccessible to mobility-impaired visitors but does offer alternative, accessible seating arrangements within the museum.

Museum staff are happy to advise wheel chair users about accessibility. The museum has one wheel chair for visitors use subject to availability. Please ring the mill office for further advice or to book this facility.

To see the range of goods available to buy, please visit our On-Line Shop.

For special events please visit our Events page.

If you would like to contact us, please email us info@coldharbourmill.org.uk