Heritage Open Day
Wed 17 Sept
|Dean Heritage Centre
Date & Address
17 Sept 2025, 10:00 – 17:00
Dean Heritage Centre, Camp Mill, Soudley, Forest of Dean GL14 2UB, UK
About the event
Free entry to the entire site to celebrate Heritage Open Day!
The site of Dean Heritage Centre, Camp Mill, is a Grade II listed building with an industrial history stretching back at least 400 years. It is a popular museum and visitor attraction, but the history of the buildings is often overlooked. As the theme for Heritage Open Day is architecture this year, we will be sharing our knowledge of the site with our visitors. What are the buildings that make up what is now the Dean Heritage Centre? How old are they? What industry has gone on here for hundreds of years? The site has been a possible Iron Forge in the 1600s, an iron foundry in the early 1800s, a corn mill in the late 1800s, a leather board factory in the late 1800s to early 1900s, a saw mill in the mid 1900s, a scrap metal yard in the 1960s/70s and Dean Heritage Centre in the 1980s onwards.
Come in for free on our Heritage Open Day, walk around, see the buildings, see displays on Dean industries and find out about the history of the site.
Book onto a tour to get an in-depth guide to Camp Mill and its former uses. Tours at 11.30 & 1.30