Visitor Centre - Lots to see and do

The Paper Trail's Visitor Centre at Frogmore Mill offers visitors a unique experience including an Activity Zone, where you have the chance to join in hand made papermaking, and printing. An interesting modern exhibition area, which highlights the past, present and future of the paper industry, and also showcases some archival items from the John Dickinson era.

Visitors can then take a mill tour around the Victorian paper machine and learn about how paper is made.

The Visitor Centre also has a Cafe, which serves refreshments and cakes. There is also a gift shop which sells a variety of innovative and sustainable items, including a selection of products made at Frogmore Mill.

Admission: Adults £6; Children & Concessions £5.

Looking north over Frogmore Mill and the visitors car park to the Two Waters lakes The Paper Trail is an award winning Industrial Heritage Visitor Centre based at Frogmore Mill in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

Open to the public
Monday to Friday 10.30am - 4.30pm
Sundays 11.00am - 4.00pm

White paper reeling up on Frogmore's 100 year old paper machine

Exhibition Gallery

Cafe on the Water

Frogmore Mill's new visitor centre provides an exhibition gallery, a cafe, shop and a hands-on activity centre as well as meeting and education facilities for 50,000 visitors a year.

Guided tours around the papermaking operation offer visitors the opportunity to make their own paper and print their own letterpress page.

The entrance to Frogmores new Visitor Centre - a modern 'shell' put on a 100 year old framework A Tour Group viewing the @wet End' of the paper machine

Making your own Letterpress printed page

It's great fun making your own sheet of paper

There has been a mill at Frogmore for at least 800 years and paper has been made here since 1774. Frogmore's special place in history came in 1803 when the world's first commercial paper machine was installed, starting paper's industrial revolution.

Our ferry, the Bryan Donkin, on the river Gade Our very own Fire Engine that has spent its life at Frogmore Mill. Restored and fully working.

The Paper Trail's unique Recycle for Learning scheme collects waste office paper from over 350 local schools (and the local businesses that support these schools by donating their paper), earning the schools PaperPoints that they redeem for recycled art papers, mill visits and themed assemblies.

The Recycle for Learning van provides free waste paper collections for Recycle for Learning Schools Kean waste paper collectors at Bushey Meads School, Watford