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Flatford hamlet, Suffolk, has many interesting tales to tell. Help the National Trust ensure it's future by discovering its past.
Flatford hamlet, Suffolk, has many interesting tales to tell. Help the National Trust ensure it's future by discovering its past.
Early records describe a mill involved in 'fulling' cloth and it was called Flotfordmelle.
For nearly a hundred years from 1742 to 1846 Flatford Mill was owned by members of the Constable family.
Follow the history of the mill as a working mill untill 1900 and thereafter as a private residence until 1943 when it was acquired by the National Trust and leased to the Field Study Council in 1946.