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Cromer Windmill is a post mill with a single-storey roundhouse. The trestle, entirely made of oak, [8] is enclosed by the roundhouse. The main post is 22 inches (560 mm) square at its lower end, and 20 inches (510 mm) diameter at the crown tree.
Medmerry Mill was built as a five-storey mill, driving two pairs of millstones.Holloway's completely refitted the mill in 1908, resulting in a four-storey brick tower mill with a domed cap which was winded by a fantail.
Upthorpe Mill is a post mill on a single-storey roundhouse. It has two pairs of Double Patent sails carried on a wooden windshaft with a cast-iron poll end. [3] This carries a wooden brake wheel with iron segment teeth, driving a cast-iron wallower mounted on a wooden upright shaft.
Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia. ISBN 0-7385-0288-X. Lombardo, Donald (2003). Windmills of New England, Their Genius, Madness, History & Future. Cape Cod, MA: On Cape Publications. ISBN 0-9719547-7-1. Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is the Windmill World website.
Dempsters was a privately held American company that over time produced submersible pumps, windmills and wind energy systems, water systems, recycling trailers, fertilizer equipment, and accessories. Originally named the Dempster Company and then the Dempster Wind Mill Company, it was incorporated under the laws of Nebraska in 1886 as Dempster ...
The windmills at Kinderdijk in the village of Kinderdijk, Netherlands is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.
Pumping windmill, demolished 1939. [33] Heage: Heage Windmill: Tower: Built c. 1797. First use c. 1805 [34] Heage Windmill Official Website: Heanor: 1791 1808 Holbrook: Holbrook Mill: Post: 1825 1836 1880 1825 [35] Standing in 1841, not marked on any map later than 1880. [35] Hopton: Carsington Pasture Mill: Tower: 1839 1880 1780s [36] [37 ...
King's Mead Mill is a four-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base. It has a Kentish-style cap winded by a fantail.When working it had four shuttered sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft, driving three pairs of millstones.