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A fantail is a small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, and which turns the cap automatically to bring it into the wind. The fantail was patented in 1745 by Edmund Lee, a blacksmith working at Brockmill Forge near Wigan , England, and was perfected on mills around Leeds and Hull towards the end of the ...
Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill is a five-storey tower mill with a domed cap winded by an eight bladed fantail. [4] The tower is 21 feet 6 inches (6.55 m) diameter at base, and 10 feet (3.05 m) diameter at curb level. The brickwork is only 27 inches (690 mm) thick at ground level, and generally only about 18 inches (460 mm) at higher levels ...
Other former five- and six-sailed Lincolnshire and Yorkshire tower mills now without sails and partly without cap are LeTall's Mill in Lincoln, Holgate Windmill in Holgate, York (currently being restored), Black, Cliff, or Whiting's Mill (a seven-storeyed chalk mill) in Hessle and (with originally six sails) Barton-upon-Humber Tower mill ...
Fantail blades Five blades Waterhall Mill , also known as Westdene Windmill , is a grade II listed [ 1 ] tower mill at Westdene , [ 2 ] Sussex , England which has been converted to residential use.
Billingford Windmill is a five-storey tower mill with a boat-shaped cap winded by a fantail. The tower is 36 feet (10.97 m) high to curb level. It has four double Patent sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft. The brake wheel carries a tablet inscribed "W SKINNER 1860". The upright shaft is of cast iron, and is 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (114 ...
Buttrum's Mill is a six-storey tower mill with an ogee cap with a gallery. [4] The tower is 20 feet 6 inches (6.25 m) diameter internally at the base and 11 feet (3.35 m) diameter at curb level. It is 48 feet (14.63 m) high to the curb. [3] The brickwork is 23 inches (580 mm) thick at the base.
Bardwell Mill is a four-storey tower mill. The beehive cap is winded by a fantail.When fitted, the four double Patent sails have a span of 63 feet (19.20 m) [6] and are carried on a cast-iron windshaft [1] which was cast in 1989 [8] (the original windshaft in the mill was cast in two pieces [9]).
Great Bircham Mill is a five-storey tower mill with a stage at third-floor level. [2] The tower is 52 feet (15.85 m) to curb level and 25 feet (7.62 m) outside diameter at the base, with walls 2 feet 6 inches (760 mm) thick. [3] It has an ogee cap with a gallery. The cap is winded by a six-bladed fantail.