Visitor Information

Directions

For SatNav - our post code is EX15 3EE.

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 Route 92 Taunton/Tiverton/Cullompton; six days. No service on Sundays & Public Holidays.

Opening Times

The Mill is open for self guided tours from 10.00am – 4.00pm; Monday - Friday throughout the year.

The Mill does not open at weekends.

Ticket Prices 2013

Self Guided Tour

Adult                                          £6.00

Child                                          £3.50

Family                                       £17.50

Concession                                  £5.00

 Steam Up & Self Guided Tour

Adult                                          £8.50 

Child                                          £5.00                                

Family                                       £25.00

Concession                                  £8.00

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 (Ground Floor).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 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 Fox Gallery is on the Second Floor. The permanent exhibitions include the World War II 'Home Front'; the Millennium Screen - a stunning work of craftsmanship celebrating the Culm Valley Parishes and a model of the Culm Valley Light Railway which linked the valley's villages for almost 100 years.

The Fox Gallery hosts temporary exhibitions through the summer - see the Events page for more details.

The Mill Shop

Open for tickets and souvenirs from 10.00am until 4.00pm  Monday - Friday.

The Gillbox Restaurant   CLOSED (From 25-03-2013)

Hot drinks are available from a vending machine.

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.

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.

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