Heage Windmill Society - Heage, Derbyshire
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  • Heage Windmill Society - Heage, Derbyshire
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  • Heage Windmill SocietyThe mill is open from April to the end of October at weekends and Bank Holidays from 11:00am to 4:00pm. In 1996, a group of dedicated individuals in conjunction with Derbyshire County Council, formed the "Heage Windmill Society" (a registered charitable trust). They recognised that, unless further action was taken to ensure the continued care and attention in the near future, this important six sailed stone tower windmill could be lost forever. The Society is largely made up of local and interested people who had the desire to restore the windmill to working order and to provide opportunities for the public to visit the mill.In 1997 joint applications were made to National Lottery Heritage Memorial Fund, and to English Heritage, for grants to be made to enable the mill to be brought back to working order. English Heritage awarded a grant of almost �40,000 to restore the masonry of the tower and soon after it was announced that the mill had been the subject of a lottery grant of �163,855. A further grant of �92,000 was received from renewable energy promoting organisation, WREN.On 1 June 2002 the mill finally opened to the public and since then many thousands of visitors come to enjoy the spectacle of seeing the windmill working again after more than 80 years of lying idle.
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