Please refer to the map on the previous page.

Ruskin Mill is situated on the outskirts of Nailsworth and was built as a woolen mill in the 1820's. The main building and workshops have been gradually restored and developed since it was started as an educational and cultural centre in 1987.

Within the main building is a reception area, administrative offices, craft workshops, classrooms, Coffee shop and balcony. In the basement is the Gallery which holds Ruskin Mill Events including exhibitions, music, drama, lectures, workshops and the student exhibition at the end of the summer term. Ruskin Mill also sponsors and hosts events from the yearly Nailsworth Festival.

Beyond the Gallery are two Art rooms and the water wheel room which has been restored along with the water wheel. Upstairs is the Festival room which houses the library,is used for larger meetings and student activities.

The workshops behind the Mill house various craft workshops and small businesses. To the front of the Mill is a small carpark from where the Coffee Shop may be visited. There students learn associated skills and serve the public. The path to Horsley Mill starts at the side of the Shop and the Ruskin Mill pond.

At the far end of the pond towards Horsley Mill is the Market Garden which provides vegetables, fruit and soft fruits for the Shop, kitchens and the Food Preservation and Fermentation classes. Volunteers and Bio-Dynamic apprentices work alongside tutors and students.

Continuing along, the path crosses a boundary into the Fish Farm and Horsley Mill. To the left are woodlands, managed by the College within the student programme, the Green Woodworking workshop and the Iron Age Forge and on the right is Swan Bank, an extension to the Market Garden.

Horsley Mill houses administartion offices, the college canteen, Basic Skills and the main student reception and courtyard from where transport to the outreaches of the College can be taken. Its overlooks the main fish ponds, leather processing and making workshops with the Fishery building located at the far end of the ponds where public footpaths connect the Horsley Valley to the Woodland Centre, Park Wood and Gables Farm.

The Woodland Centre houses a Green Woodworking workshop, a tree nursery, the Woodland Soup Kitcken where staff and students working in the area have tea breaks and lunch and the Saxon building, a classroom for Woodland Management and seminars.

Park Wood has 30 acres of broadleaf woodland dating back to ice age times and provides a faculty for forestry management skills, coppicing, path laying and producing the raw material for woodwork and charcoal making.

Gables Farm provides a centre for horticulture, bio-dynamic farming and animal husbandry. At the Gables is a car park, Gables Farm Grocery Store that supplies Ruskin Mill households with organic produce and products and a class room situated in a converted barn. The farm has an orchard, chickens, pigs, sheep, a working cob horse and produces field crops. Soap Making, Plant Dyeing and Motor Mechanics are located at the farm and Wool to Finished Product classes are to be based here. The Gables house is one of the college Households which has an Independence flat attached.

Ruskin Mill College has worshop facilities in Stroud and provides lunches at Upper Grange, a College household, for staff and students working in the area. College buses are used for transport between Stroud and Nailsworth.