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Jill Windmill is normally open from 2 pm to 5 pm on most Sundays between May and September.
In addition for 2008, we intend to open Jill Windmill on the Saturday of National Mills Weekend.
Click here for a schedule of 2008 planned Open Days.
There is a souvenir and tea shop, a car park and a picnic area. Admission is free and stoneground wholemeal flour is on sale to visitors on an occasional basis.
For those who are unable to visit on Open Days, this web site includes a Virtual Tour of Jill Windmill, detailing her design, her machinery and how she works.
We can usually accomodate pre-booked visits on weekdays [between May and September only] for school children and other groups. For further details of weekday visits, please either write to us [advising a contact name and telephone number] or send an e-mail to Keith Cook.
Jack Windmill is in private ownership and is not open to the general public. However our Society Members are granted exclusive access to Jack on specified dates each Summer.
How to get there :
Car: 
From the A23 (London - Brighton) road turn off at Pyecombe village just South of Burgess Hill and follow the A273 Northwards.
The windmills can be reached by a short lane on your right hand side as the road begins to run downhill.
Our postcode for Sat-Nav users is BN6 9PG. [Note : This is the location of Jill Windmill and is not a correspondence address. Please do not write to us at this address, refer instead to our contacts page.]
Train: 
The nearest railway station (2½ miles) is Hassocks. A footpath runs alongside the railway line from Hassocks to Clayton village.
On Foot: 
The South Downs Way runs straight past the windmills connecting them to Devil's Dyke to the West and Ditchling Beacon to the East. A footpath runs from Clayton Court Farm up to the windmills. Brighton & Hove City Council have produced some 'Downs on your Doorstep' countryside trails leaflets (including "The Chattri and the Windmills") which are available to download.
National Grid Reference : TQ 303134
Over the course of the year, Jill Windmill is surrounded by a succession of wild flowers including snowdrops and daffodils. Our most prolific flowers are cowslips.
Click here for photographs  
NOSTALGIC VISIT
Circa 1950, Ivan March, a mill enthusiast who resided near Canterbury, brought his family, including the dog, his sister and her son to Sussex for a day out to see Jack and Jill.
No mean feat for that journey in those days !
On Sunday 14th May 2006, National Mills Day, his Daughter Heather, now Tucker, paid a nostalgic return visit to Sussex with her family from their home in Rugby to renew their acquaintance with Jack and Jill.
They brought with them a copy of the photograph taken by Ivan showing (from left to right) his wife Joan, their son Hugh, daughter Heather, his sister Molly Breeze, another daughter Diana and Molly's son Michael. In front is the dog Rex.
My friend Chris Baker from Clayton sent me your web site with all the work that is being done on the windmill.
This was very much appreciated since my spouse Dorothy and I were taken there when we visited Hassocks and Clayton several years back.
It was a most interesting site, especially since we don't have such windmills in Florida, only hurricanes!!
The evening that we went there, we took the tour inside the mill and were treated very warmly by the guide, who was very much up to date on the workings of the mill.
Good luck to all of you for the effort you make in keeping a tradition alive.
Hope to be back there some day..
Donald A. Nicholson Fort Myers, Florida
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