Norfolk Windmills Trust
The Norfolk Windmills Trust is a charity based in Norfolk, England, which restores and cares for windmills in that county. Mills in its care (but not necessarily owned) include those at: * Ashtree Farm Mill *Berney Arms (English Heritage - pictured) * Billingford * Clayrack *Cley next the Sea *Denver Windmill *Dereham *Garboldisham *Great Bircham * Gunton Park Sawmill * Hobb's Mill * Horsey (NT) *Letheringsett Watermill *Little Cressingham *Old Buckenham * Paston (privately owned) *Starston * Stracey Arms *Sutton *Wicklewood See also *List of drainage windmills in Norfolk * List of windmills *Windmills in the United Kingdom This is a list of windmills and windpumps in the United Kingdom. England The list is divided into the current ceremonial counties of England: Bedfordshire See List of windmills in Bedfordshire Berkshire ;Mock mill Buckinghamshire See Li ... External linksNorfolk Windmills Trust website {{Authority control Charities based in Norfolk ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Berney Arms Mill
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Hobb's Mill
Hobb's Mill, also known as Hobbs Drainage Mill, is an open trestle windpump which stands by the side of the River Bure in Horning, North Norfolk, England, and is a Grade II* listed structure. The mill was built before 1930, probably in the late 19th century. The frame is made of wood, with four braced cant posts standing on brick piers supporting a weatherboarded cap and fantail. In the picture, the four sails are missing. The mill was unique in that it was the only trestle mill to operate a scoop wheel Rim driven Scoop wheel of the Stretham Old Engine, Cambridgeshire A scoop wheel or scoopwheel is a pump, usually used for land drainage. A scoop wheel pump is similar in construction to a water wheel, but works in the opposite manner: a wate .... Both the mill and scoop wheel have been partly restored by the Windmill Trust. References {{coord, 52.6932, 1.4724, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Windmills of the Norfolk Broads Smock mills in England Grade II* lis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Windmills In The United Kingdom
This is a list of windmills and windpumps in the United Kingdom. England The list is divided into the current ceremonial counties of England: Bedfordshire See List of windmills in Bedfordshire Berkshire ;Mock mill Buckinghamshire See List of windmills in Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire See List of windmills in Cambridgeshire Cheshire Windmills in Cheshire, including those now within Merseyside. Cornwall See List of windmills in Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire See List of windmills in Derbyshire Devon See List of windmills in Devon. Dorset ;Maps *1710 John Hutchins Durham East Riding of Yorkshire See List of windmills in the East Riding of Yorkshire East Sussex See List of windmills in East Sussex Essex See List of windmills in Essex Gloucestershire Greater London See List of windmills in Greater London Greater Manchester Windmills that survive today within Greater Manchester. Historic windmills will be listed under Lancashire. Hampshire S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Windmills
The List of windmills is a link page for any windmill or windpump. Africa South Africa *See List of windmills in South Africa Asia Israel *See List of windmills in Israel Japan Syria Taiwan Thailand Australia Australia * See List of windmills in Australia New Zealand Europe Austria Belarus Belgium *See List of windmills in Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic *See List of windmills in the Czech Republic Denmark *See List of windmills in Denmark Estonia *See List of windmills in Estonia Finland France *See List of windmills in France Germany *See List of windmills in Germany Greece *See List of windmills in Greece Hungary Ireland *See List of windmills in Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Malta *See List of windmills in Malta Netherlands * See List of windmills in the Netherlands Virtually every small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Drainage Windmills In Norfolk
This is a list of drainage windmills in the current ceremonial county English county of Norfolk. Some of the windmills in this area receive maintenance from the Norfolk Windmills Trust. Locations A B C D - F G - H I - L M N - O P - R S T - W Maps * 1749 Emanuel Bowen * 1765 Corbridge * 1775 Bowles * 1783 Joseph HodgkinsonMap of Suffolk * 1797 Faden * 1826 Bryant * 1834 Greenwood * 1837 Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was a ... * 1838 Ordnance Survey * 1884 Ordnance Survey Notes Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in ''italics'' denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated. Sources Unless otherwise indicated, the source for all entries is ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wicklewood
Wicklewood is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. It is located west of Norwich next to the market town of Wymondham, neighbouring the villages of Deopham, Hackford and Kimberley. It covers an area of and had a population of 886 in 345 households at the 2001 census, which had increased to 922 at the 2011 Census. The villages name probably means, 'wych-elm wood/clearing'. 'Wood' is redundant. Governance An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward has a population of 3,308 at the 2011 Census. Amenities The village has a small primary school, Wicklewood School, as well as a small church, St Andrews and All Saints. Wicklewood has a local cricket team that participates in various Sunday League matches and was the holder of the Wicklewood Shield trophy won in 2006. The village also has one public house called the Cherry Tree where the full range of Buffy's ales, made in Tivetshall St. Mary, can be tasted. Hospital Road is t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sutton, Norfolk
Sutton is a village (with 486 dwelling houses and a population of 1226Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001.Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes.") the village population increasing to 1,163 at the 2011 Census, in the English county of Norfolk. It lies next to the Norfolk Broads (Barton Broad to its south-west, and Hickling Broad to its south-east), about 16 miles north-east of Norwich on the A149 road, adjacent to the slightly larger market town of Stalham. Sutton has a public house A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and wa ... and hotel, infant school, garden centre, village hall and a parish church. Nearby is the striking landmark of Sutton Mill, a Grade II* listed building. Tourism and recreational ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stracey Arms Windpump
Stracey Arms Windpump The cap assembly Stracey Arms Windpump is a windpump located at Tunstall in the civil parish of Halvergate, Norfolk, England. It is a grade II* listed building. It takes its name from a nearby public house formerly called the Stracey Arms, after the local Stracey family. It is a four-storey drainage mill with a tapering red brick tower and a boat shaped weatherboarded cap. The cap, cap gallery, sails, fan and tail pole are all in place. The internal machinery is in working order and drives a turbine pump. The pump was used to drain the surrounding marshland into a channel leading to the River Bure, but was superseded by an electric pump installed in an adjacent building. The mill was built in 1883 by Robert Barnes of Great Yarmouth and was extensively modified in 1912. During the Second World War it was converted into a fortified pillbox with gun ports in the sides. It was taken out of service in 1946. From 1961 the mill was restored to working order by ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Starston Windpump
Starston Wind Pump is a hollow post mill for pumping water, situated west of the village of Starston in Norfolk, England. The Pump is 330 yards away from the parish church of Saint Margaret in Mill Field. The windpump is a Grade II listed building and a scheduled ancient monument. After some years on the Heritage at Risk Register because of its poor condition, it was restored in 2010. History This unusual windmill pump was built c.1850 by the Suffolk Millwrights Whitmore and Binyon Wailes, R. A Source Book of Windmills and Water Mills. Ward Lock & Co, 1979 and it was built to pump water from the nearby Beck to fill up massive water tanks, one on top of Starston Place house and one in the nearby farmyard of Home Farm. So efficient were the large canvas and wood sails of this little windmill, that although there was a stationary engine which could work the pumps, it was seldom used. However, with the installation a piped supply of water to the village and district the use of the pu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paston, Norfolk
Paston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is north-east of North Walsham and south-east of Cromer. It is north-east of the city of Norwich. The village sits astride the coast road between Mundesley and Bacton. The nearest railway station is at North Walsham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International. The village gives its name to the Pastonian Stage, a British regional subdivision of the Pleistocene Epoch. The village was served by Paston & Knapton railway station on the North Walsham to Cromer section of the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway from 1881 until 1964. History The manor of Paston is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Pastuna'' from the Roman name ''Terra Pastorini'' ("Shepherds' Land"), one of the many English holdings of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. The listing mentions the church and a mill. From about 1400 it was dominated ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Old Buckenham
Old Buckenham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, approximately south-west of Norwich. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,294 in 658 households at the 2001 census falling to a population of 1,270 living in 529 households at the census 2011. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland. History Toponymy Old Buckenham was listed as ''Bucham'', ''Buccham'' or ''Bucheham'' in the 1068 Domesday Book. The name comes from the Old English for "homestead of a man called Bucca". Nineteenth century During the nineteenth century there was a small Sandemanian community in the village which the natural philosopher Michael Faraday visited many times in the 1850s and 1860s. Governance Since 2015, Old Buckenham is in The Buckenhams & Banham ward of Breckland district, which returns one councillor to the district council. Since 2010, the parish is part of the Parliamentary constituency of Mid Norfolk. Historicall ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Little Cressingham
Little Cressingham lies south east by road from Great Cressingham, west of Watton and south of Swaffham in the Breckland District of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 157 in 70 households at the 2001 census It is in the civil parish of Great Cressingham. The village is located on the edge of the Stanford Battle Area. The villages name origin is uncertain but probably means 'Homestead/village of Cressa's people', or perhaps, 'cress homestead/village'. The village is dispersed, with the main centre focused on a crossroads around the church and the mill. The village church is dedicated to St Andrew and is partially ruined.St Andrew, Little Cressingham Norfolk Churches. Retrieved 2011-05-02. The building is medieval and designated as a ...
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