1st Stop Skidby Mill Traditional Cache

The little Tigerlatics love Skidby Mill!  They love the museum which is great for visitors young and old.  Little Tigerlatics especially love grinding their own flour in there.  They also love the playing field especially the wooden train hence the title for their geocache here!  A great place to explore once you've found the geocache.

The geocache is hidden near the car park.  The car park is free of charge.

This cache is a traditional cache near the car park.  If you look one way you can see Skidby Mill and the other way the Humber Bridge.

Skidby Mill is a working four-sailed tower windmill, set in over an acre of land with magnificent views over the Wolds. Skidby Mill is a Grade II listed working windmill. Originally built in 1821, the mill was further extended to its current 5 stories in 1870. It is powered by 4 sails, 11 metres in length, and was in commercial use until 1966. Between 1954 and 1966 the mill was used for grinding animal feedstuff using newly installed electric rollers but also continued producing stoneground flour, too. The mill was sold to the local council in 1969 for £1 and after being renovated was opened in 1974 as a working museum. It is the last working English windmill north of the Humber, producing stoneground wholemeal flour from locally grown wheat. In 2008, work began on the mill to replace some structural members in the cap and fantail. The work involved the 15 ton cap being removed by a crane, the only time that the cap has been removed since the 1870s.