1,000-year-old British flour mill helps bread-making during lockdown

The popularity of baking bread during coronavirus lockdowns led to an increased demand for flour. Ian Lee gets a tour of a 1,000-year-old mill in Southwest England grinding to rescue with flour power.

[@maximilian9295]

My house is falling apart and it was built in 1983.

[@DripDripDrip69]

Build your next house out of concrete and steel instead of wood.

[@claireconover]

wow... this is kind of cool

[@feliciaalbanese3338]

Blimey!! Love ya friends from the other side of the pond😂

[@wmtyrance]

I love stories like this.

[@Kelz_X]

Austin Powers daddy ! 😆 That’s a gorgeous building ! Very picturesque mill and scenery !

[@DylanF]

As a positive thing, it's really awesome to see something local get any TV news coverage. It's another thing to see a news network thousands of miles off take interest in it.

[@s.leemccauley7302]

Be careful. Media attention is fickle. Tomorrow and they will be against you for being a threat to the ecology of the stream.

[@peterpan9596]

We buy grain and mill it ourselves, but only in a small way, 500g weekly. The taste is amazing, but the best part is that we are getting all the nutrients from the grain, because once flour is milled, it loses nearly all it's goodness within the first 24 hrs. Also by milling your own, you are not restricted to a "shelf life" because un-broken grain lasts indefinitely, so you can safely buy a large sack, knowing that it won't go to waste. Try it!. Best wishes to all in these trying times(orchestrated by the 1% elites).

[@GazalaKazi07]

How do you mill your grains?

[@pelviselvis3421]

What a stunning building! This is so cool.

[@chansaicommerce1721]

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@wesleyrodgers886]

You can always fall back on old tech.

[@Luckyluke870]

😂😂😂😂😂 they defo told the British lads to talk extra British lol

[@49lucky]

Yeah I bought a flour mill years ago and buy my own flour berries... Been doing it for years. Don t like preground flour this is wonderful..

[@DylanF]

There is nothing like really fresh bread. I went on a school trip to Oxford's bakery (the one featured in this news story); I've yet to taste bread anywhere near as good as it in the past 22 odd years.

[@gregthornton4209]

Place looks like the cover of the first Black Sabbath album!!

[@jimoneill7657]

I was thinkin the same thing. Just sayin

[@lunchbox-9164]

I thought so too, I had to find out. Sabbath cover was the Mapledurham mill. This one is the Sturminster Newton Mill. They look almost identical.

[@carinwiseman4309]

We were running out of flour and yeast too in U S. Has been very hard to get.

[@s.leemccauley7302]

Here cbs would be chastising the owners for interfering with the flow of water and sticking up for some snail or guppy.

[@asmashahzad4446]

News Milled s in England UK 🇬🇧 Very Very Neat New

[@eileenlester4342]

Cool!

[@okamivolgan]

none of the people seen in this video is wearing a Mask

[@tylercarrell]

okamivolgan who cares? Don’t be such a snowflake

[@peterpan9596]

That's because some people didn't fall for the lies

[@chansaicommerce1721]

SO COOL +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[@harpalkarwal774]

I will watch this mill please help me

[@CHamlin86]

I thought gluten was deadly, too.

[@DylanF]

Oh the tales spurred. Bread has been a staple part of our diet for thousands of years. If gluten was deadly most of us wouldn't be alive.

[@s.leemccauley7302]

To some folks who have an intolerance it is not good.

[@DylanF]

@@s.leemccauley7302 Yes, like those with coeliac disease. But it in itself is not harmful.

[@cherylcarlson3315]

Really hate hearing Tv people acting so provincial and narrow. Really should watch broadcasts from around the world, travel and give up the America first crap.

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

Cheryl Carlson ...really hate to see non-US citizens criticize the narrow-mindedness of US citizens, relative to such things. The US is ENORMOUS, and travel outside of our own northern continent is EXTREMELY expensive. Most of us would love to visit other places, but what with our conservatives defunding every aspect of the government, extremely poor wages, NO MEDICAL CARE, and many, many legally-enforced sorts of “insurance,” few can ever afford the money or time it takes to travel anywhere but our own backyard. And the phrase, “Only in ____” is not exclusively utilized by US journalists. Why couldn’t you just enjoy the fact that American journalists were saying nice things about Brits? You need to take a hard look at yourself.

[@cherylcarlson3315]

@@philoctetes_wordsworth I am US citizen. I stand by what I said

[@erinrising2799]

I agree, when they said we didn't run out of flour here, I was thinking these people don't do their own shopping

[@s.leemccauley7302]

@@cherylcarlson3315 maybe an extended stay overseas would be more to your taste. Feel free to adopt someplace you like better.

[@cherylcarlson3315]

@@s.leemccauley7302 your attitude is why US is in this multifaceted mess. You and your ilk do not explore,learn and listen.

[@asmashahzad4446]

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[@Tarun10723]

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