This article is from the 26th February 2026 Newsletter DRESSING STONES AND JUST HOW MUCH STONE DO YOU EAT IN YOUR FLOUR? Karen is now back from her winter holiday and she has managed to mill a stock of flour to cover a couple of days without milling. With this in mind and if you […]

This article is taken from the 19th February 2026 Newsletter MORE FROM MR GILESPY I was out on Tuesday up north and decided to visit Stapleton Church to see if I could find the gravestone commemorating William Gilespy. To make things easier there is a copy of all the gravestones inscriptions in the church with […]

This article appeared in the Newsletter on 12th February 2026 MR W GILLESPY We unfortunately don’t have a lot of records for the mill and the millers who ran it. An account book for the Manor of Corby does exist for 1797 and this shows that William Gillespy paid the rent on the mill, £94 […]

This article appeared in the 6th February 2026 Newsletter PAYING THE MILLER. The mill was until the 1880s owned by the local Lord of the Manor, which from the early 1600’s was the Howards of Corby Castle. They would lease out the mill to a miller and by that period in time the rent would […]

This article was published in the Newsletter 30th January 2026. WHAT DID THE MILL DO IN EARLIER TIMES? We now mainly mill wheat for either bread flour or plain for cakes etc. We mill a small amount of the ancient grain Spelt for again bread flour and Rye and Oats. However, probably before the early […]

This article was in the Newsletter 23rd January 2026. SECRET CUMBRIA. Secret Cumbria is a feature on BBC Radio Cumbria lunchtime programme. It is compiled by Andrew Carter and he visited the mill to record it just before Christmas. Alas the first two episodes were presented this Wednesday and Thursday and the other two will […]