Crowfield Windmill

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Crowfield Windmill is a smock mill at Crowfield, Suffolk, England which has been conserved.

History

Crowfield Windmill was originally built as a drainage mill near Great Yarmouth. It was moved to Crowfield c1840 and converted to a corn mill. The mill worked by wind until 1916 when the cap was blown off. An auxiliary engine was used to power the millstones until the mid-1930s.[1]

Description

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For an explanation of the various pieces of machinery, see Mill machinery.

Crowfield Windmill is a three-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base. It had four patent sails and the boat-shaped cap was winded by a fantail.[1] It has two pairs of underdrift millstones which are mounted on a hurst frame.[2]

Millers

  • Gibbons - 1930s

Reference for above:-[2]

References

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