Learning Centre, Waterwheels Cafe & Shop
Our new fully accessible Learning Centre, Waterwheels Cafe and Museum Shop.
Spirit of the Homefront
The WW2 re-enactors showcase life on the Home Front.
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Visit our new Learning Centre, café, gallery and workshops
‘All About Abbeydale’ reveals the story behind the works, its people and their working lives
See the last complete surviving crucible steel furnace in the UK!
Follow the repair of the Hamlet’s waterwheels and machinery
Traditional crafts and skills displays showcased throughout the year
Abbeydale Works was once the largest water-powered industrial suite on the River Sheaf
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is a unique eighteenth century industrial works. Catch a glimpse of life at home and at work at a rural scythe and steelworks dating back to the 18th century.
Abbeydale Works was once a producer of agricultural tools and the largest water-powered industrial site on the River Sheaf. It is now a group of Grade I and Grade II listed buildings and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
See the Manager's House and Worker's Cottage, waterwheels, workshops, tilt hammers, a grinding hull, steam engine and the last complete surviving crucible steel furnance in the UK!
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet has been restored and transformed following a 3 year £1million Heritage Lottery Funded restoration project completed in 2016.
See a working waterwheel in action every Wednesday!
What's on
Make Your Own Wednesdays Summer Holiday Fun
School holiday family fun with make and take craft activities every week!
All About Abbeydale
Our new gallery tells the story behind the works, its people and their working lives.
The Works!
Everyone can get hand-on with history at The Works!
Explore the Hamlet
Rediscover Abbeydale with so many exciting changes to explore ...