Heritage Open Day: Explore this fascinating water powered sawmill in the heart of the Dales, and learn more of how it fits into the history of industrial revolution in North Yorkshire and beyond. Gayle Mill near Hawes in Wensleydale is a functioning water-powered sawmill, originally built in 1784 for the spinning of cotton grown in America.
Visit and see the Victorian woodworking machinery and our turbines in action and hear about its fascinating history, its involvement in the very early stages of the Industrial Revolution and its evolution into the sawmill it is today.