Editing Tring (section)

==Flour mill==

Heygates Mill is a [[flour mill]]. Originally it was a windmill, and the company was run by William Mead. The windmill was demolished in 1910 to make way for a wheat [[storage silo]]. In those days, Mead lived on-site, in a house next to the yard, and owned half the area taken by the mill of today. The remaining space was occupied by boat-builders, Bushell Brothers, who built [[narrowboat]]s for the canal. The Heygate family took over Mead's business in 1945, and today mills 100,000 tons of wheat a year, resulting in 76,000 tons of flour. This is mainly bakers' flour, but there is also a commitment to wholemeal digestive for biscuits, bulk outlets and a large output of 1.5&nbsp;kg bags from the pre-packed flour plant.

In the days of the Tring windmill, only two men operated the system, milling ten [[Stone (unit)|stone]] per hour. Now, computerised, more than twelve [[ton]]s per hour are produced. Heygate's Tring mill has 80 employees and sixteen trucks delivering throughout the [[Southern England|south of England]].