Museums & Galleries · Hampshire
Eling Tide Mill Experience Visitor Centre
📍 SO40 9GH
Photo: Chris Gunns (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
- Watch the tide turn the water wheel and millstones
- Interactive exhibition exploring the mill's history
- Riverside walks along Eling Creek shoreline
- One of the only fully working tide mills in the UK
- Grade II* listed mill building dating from around 1785
Eling Tide Mill Experience is a working tide mill and visitor centre in Totton and Eling, New Forest, where you can see the power of the tide turning the water wheel and powering the millstones, explore a new interactive exhibition, and stroll along Eling Creek shoreline before relaxing with a coffee in the Mill café. It is one of the only fully working and productive tide mills in the United Kingdom, housed in a Grade II* listed tide mill dating from around 1785. The Cafe and Discovery Room are open Wednesday to Sunday, there is a free car park located nearby, and dogs are permitted inside our buildings. Totton station is 0.4 miles away, with 32 bookable places to stay within 5 miles on BritStays.
Practical details
- Open
- Cafe and Discovery Room open Wednesday to Sunday, 9.30-16.00
- Parking
- Free car park on the opposite side of the toll bridge
- Dogs
- Dogs permitted inside buildings and outside areas
- Accessibility
- Level access to platform 1; platform 2 has steps
- Booking
- Coach visitors asked to contact in advance
From the attraction's own website on 7 Oct 2026 — check before you travel.
Facilities
- ✓ Bar
- ✓ Cafe
- ✓ Disabled Access
- ✓ Parking
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Turn a visit to Eling Tide Mill Experience Visitor Centre into a proper getaway — ready-made plans, and the drive worked out with fuel, EV charging and the best stops.
🚆 Or come by train
- Totton 0.4 miles
- Redbridge 0.8 miles
- Millbrook (Hants) 2.1 miles
Straight-line distances · live departures on each station page