Whitchurch Silk Mill

About Whitchurch Silk Mill

A working Georgian silk mill on the River Test, run as a heritage attraction with a riverside café. Its Activity Space, overlooking the mill gardens and river, is hired out for meetings, workshops and group events — up to 50 theatre-style or 30 cabaret, with tables, chairs and a projector — and the mill and grounds can be taken for exclusive use. Free public car parks are close by.

• Free parking
• Ev charging

Finding the door

Activity Space for meetings and workshops (50 theatre, 30 cabaret). Use the Venue Enquiry Form on the venue-hire page; site hire terms are a PDF there.

• Only guide dogs are allowed in the shop, café and mill

Parking

Two Blue Badge spaces on the mill forecourt. Free car parks nearby: Winchester Road (sat nav RG28 7HP; 29 spaces incl. 2 disabled, 2 EV charging, 1 coach bay; sharp turn in and 2 m height limit), Church Street (RG28 7AD; 13 spaces) and Bell Street (RG28 7AE; 76 spaces incl. 2 disabled). Coach parking can be arranged through the mill.

• Winchester Road car park

  Nearby · 4 min walk · 29 spaces · EV charging

  Free

• Bell Street car park

  Nearby · 4 min walk · 76 spaces

  Free

• Church Street car park

  Nearby · 2 min walk · 13 spaces

  Free

Getting here

On Winchester Street just south of Whitchurch's town square. The mill says Whitchurch station is a 10-minute walk. Buses stop at Test Road, a minute away.

• Test Road · 1 min walk

• Cycle parking on Winchester Street · 1 min walk

  4 spaces, from OpenStreetMap.

• Whitchurch Square · 2 min walk

• Whitchurch · 10 min walk

  South Western Railway

  Walk time given by the mill.

Inside

Access: Blue Badge bays on the forecourt; other access details are on the mill's Access page, not confirmed here.

Food and drink

Riverside Café, Tue–Sun and bank holidays 10.30am–4pm.