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List Of Windmills In Suffolk
A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Suffolk. Locations A B C D E F G H I K L M ''For Minsmere see Leiston'' N O P R S ''For Saxtead Green see FramlinghamFor Sizewell see Leiston'' T, U W, Y Mill bodies A number of post mill bucks, and one smock mill body were moved and re-erected after they had ceased to be used as windmills. Locations formerly within Suffolk *For mills in Belton, Bradwell, Burgh Castle, Cobholm and Southtown see ''List of windmills in Norfolk''. *For mills in Fritton see ''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 ...''. Maps *158Anonymous*1675 Ogilby *1724 John Warburton, Joseph Bland & Payler SmithMap of Essex *1736 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windmill
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications, in some parts of the English speaking world. The term wind engine is sometimes used to describe such devices. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone windmill first appeared in Persia during the 9th century, and the vertical windmill first appeared in northwestern Europe in the 12th century. Regarded as an icon of Dutch culture, there are approximately 1,000 windmills in the Netherlands today. Forerunners Wind-powered machines may have been known earlier, but there is no clear evidence of windmills before the 9th century. Hero of Alexandria (Heron) in first-century Roman Egypt described what appears to be a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.Dietrich Lohrmann, "Von der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webster's Mill, Framsden
Framsden Windmill is a Grade II* listed post mill at Framsden, Suffolk, England which is preserved. The mill was known as Webster's Mill when it was a working mill. History ''Framsden Windmill'' was built in 1760 for John Flick. In 1836, the mill was bought by John Smith, a brickmaker from St Osyth, Essex. Smith had the mill raised by and modernised by John Whitmore and Son, millwrights, of Wickham Market. In 1843, the mill was bought by William Bond, who owned the mill until 1872 (and worked it for at least part of that time), when it was sold to Joseph Rivers. In 1879, the mill was sold to Edmund Webster, who had been listed as a miller at the mill in 1854, and later passed to his son Edmund Samuel Webster, who worked the mill until ''ca.'' 1936. In June 1966 a group of volunteers started to restore the mill. Two new Patent sails were fitted in 1969. Restoration Restoration of ''Framsden Windmill'' commenced in June 1966. A stock had broken and half a sail had fallen shortly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stansfield Windmill
Stansfield Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill at Stansfield, Suffolk, England which is derelict. History Stansfield Mill was built in 1840, replacing an earlier post mill. The millwright who built the mill is probably William Bear of Sudbury Sudbury may refer to: Places Australia * Sudbury Reef, Queensland Canada * Greater Sudbury, Ontario (official name; the city continues to be known simply as Sudbury for most purposes) ** Sudbury (electoral district), one of the city's federal e .... It is not recorded when the mill ceased work, but the cap was removed in 1922 and the mill subsequently became derelict. Description ''Stansfield Mill'' is a five-storey tower mill. It had a dome shaped cap winded by a ''fantail''. There were four ''Patent sails''. The machinery is of wood, including the clasp arm ''great spur wheel''. The mill drove two pairs of ''millstones''. References External linksWindmill Worldwebpage on Stansfield Mill. {{Portal bar , United Kingdom Windmill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxtead Green Windmill
Saxtead Green Post Windmill is a Grade II* listed post mill at Saxtead Green, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England which is also an Scheduled monument and has been restored. History According to the Manorial Records there has been a windmill in Saxtead since 1287. The current ''Saxtead Green Mill'' dates back to at least 1796 when the miller was Amos Webber. In 1810, the Mill House was built for Robert Holmes. The mill was raised a total of three times during its working life. The mill was tailwinded c. 1853. Around this time, the sails were destroyed and remade but in 1854 Whitmore and Binyon, the Wickham Market millwrights fitted new cast iron machinery and windshaft, and the layout of the machinery changed from Head and Tail to Breast stones. It was in this year that the mill was raised for the third time. Collins, the Melton millwright worked on the mill in the 1870s and Whitmore and Binyon again worked on the mill in the 1890s. From 1926 millwright Jesse Wightman (who was initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackshore Mill, Reydon
Blackshore Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill at Reydon, Suffolk, England which has been conserved. History Blackshore Mill was built c1890 by Robert Martin, the Beccles millwright A millwright is a craftsperson or skilled tradesperson who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. The term ''millwright'' (also known as ''industrial mecha ..., who beat Simon Nunn of Wenhaston in gaining the contract for the mill's construction. The mill only worked for about four years before the sails were blown off when the windshaft broke at the poll end. The mill stood derelict for many years until repairs were carried out in 2002 to conserve the mill. Description ''Blackshore Mill'' is a three-storey tower mill. It had a boat-shaped cap winded by a ''fantail''. The four ''Patent sails'' were carried on a cast-iron ''windshaft''. The tower is about high and all machinery is of cast iron. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakenham Windmill
Pakenham Mill is a Grade II* listed tower mill at Pakenham, Suffolk, England which has been restored and is maintained in working order. History Pakenham Mill was built in 1831. Clement Goodrich was the miller in 1846, when he took on an apprentice. The mill came into the ownership of the Bryant family in 1885. A steam engine was used as auxiliary power. In 1947, the mill was nearly tail-winded,A mill is tail-winded when the wind is directly behind the sails. In this situation the fantail will not work. but the miller managed to turn the cap in time to avoid this happening. The mill was restored in 1950, with a new weatherbeam fitted by Amos Clarke, the Ipswich millwright. At this time the swing-pot neck bearing from Buxhall mill was installed. A second-hand stock from Thurston post mill was fitted at this time and a gallery constructed around the cap. The gallery was based on that at Wendover mill, Buckinghamshire. New sails were also fitted. Further restoration took pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lound Windmill
Lound Mill is a tower mill at Lound in the English county of Suffolk which has been converted to residential accommodation. History Lound Mill was built in 1837 by Robert Martin, the Beccles millwright replacing an earlier post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. All p .... The mill worked by wind until 1939. The machinery was removed c1961 when the mill was converted to residential accommodation. Description ''Lound Mill'' is a four storey tower mill. It had a boat shaped cap with a gallery and was winded by a ''fantail''. The four ''Patent sails'' drove three pairs of '' millstones''. References External linksWindmill Worldwebpage on Lound Mill. {{Windmills in England Windmills in Suffolk Tower mills in the United Kingdom Windmills completed in 1837 Towe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastbridge Windpump
Eastbridge Windpump is a smock mill at the Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England which has been restored to working order. History ''Eastbridge Windpump'' was probably built in the mid nineteenth century by Robert Martin, the Beccles millwright. It originally stood at Minsmere Level, Eastbridge, Leiston (). In the early 1920s, millwright Dan England of Ludham reinforced the mill by bolting the frame from a nearby smock mill (), which had collapsed, over the weatherboarding. It worked by wind until 1940. After the war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ..., an iron windpump was erected nearby to take over from Eastbridge Windpump. On 19 February 1977, Eastbridge Windpump collapsed. The remains were dismantled by members of Suffolk Mills Group in Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skoulding's Mill, Kelsale
Skoulding's Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill at Kelsale, Suffolk, England which has been converted to residential accommodation. History Skoulding's Mill was built in 1856 by John Whitmore, the Wickham Market millwright. It was intended to replace a post mill in the same yard. It worked in conjunction with the post mill and a steam mill erected close by. The mill worked by wind until c1905 when it was refitted with roller milling equipment driven by a steam engine A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be trans .... The cap was removed in the early 1950s and the mill stripped of machinery at a later date. The empty mill tower was converted to residential accommodation. Description ''Skoulding's Mill'' is a tall seven storey tower mill. The tower is to the curb. It is di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holton Windmill
Holton Windmill is a Grade II listed post mill at Holton, Suffolk, England which has been preserved as a landmark. History Holton Mill was built in 1749 by John Swann. It was owned by William Fiske until he died in 1761, and was then purchased by Brame Oxford. When he was declared bankrupt in 1781 the mill was acquired by James Tillot. It then passed to John Tillot, who died in 1835. The mill was then put up for auction, and was for the first time described as having a roundhouse. It was bought by Samuel Wilkinson, a miller from Blythburgh. Wilkinson sold the mill to John Youngs of Wenhaston in 1851. Youngs died in 1861 and the mill was sold to Andrew Johnstone of Holton Hall. He in turn sold it to Thomas Buxton in 1863. The mill was again for sale in 1886. An engine shed indicated that an auxiliary engine was employed at that time. The mill was last worked in 1910. The mill was then largely stripped of machinery and used as a summer house. A fantail was added about this time. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herringfleet Windmill
Herringfleet Mill or Walker's Mill is a Grade II* listed smock mill at Herringfleet, Suffolk, England, Now in a bad state of repair with two of the 4 sails removed. History The mill was erected c1820 by millwright Robert Barnes of Great Yarmouth. It was disused in 1883 but later put back to work. The mill was worked by wind until 1956. Her owners, the Somerleyton Estate were keen to ensure that she was preserved. East Suffolk County Council agreed in principle that the mill should be preserved, and approached the Ministry of Works who agreed to pay half the cost of the restoration. Most of the rest of the money came from East Suffolk County Council and the Suffolk Preservation Society, with smaller amounts from other groups. Restoration of the mill was undertaken by Thomas Smithdale & Sons, the Acle millwrights. The mill was officially opened on 25 July 1958 by Charles Howlett, who had been marshman at the mill for over forty years. Further restoration work was done in 1971 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tutelina Mill, Great Welnetham
Tutelina Mill, also known as Clarke's Mill, is a Grade II listed tower mill at Great Welnetham, Suffolk, England which has been conserved. History Tutelina Mill was built in 1865 and shares its name with a Roman harvest goddess (now usually known as Tutilina). A steam mill was erected nearby. The windmill worked by wind until 1910. The sails were removed in 1916, and the mill was worked by a Crossley engine until the mid-1960s. Description ''Tutelina Mill'' is a small four storey tower mill. The tower is to the curb. It had a domed cap, winded by a ''fantail''. The four ''Patent sails'' drove two pairs of ''millstones''. The ''wallower'' is cast iron Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content more than 2%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloy constituents affect its color when fractured: white cast iron has carbide impuriti ... with wooden teeth, carried on a cast iron ''upright shaft''. The ''great spu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
