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The List of windmills is a link page for any windmill or windpump This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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In this nation more than others, "windmill" is often used to refer to what are properly termed windpumps bringing up water for agriculture. This is at least partly due to usage by windpump builders Eclipse Windmill Company (1873) and Aermotor Windmill Company (1888, the sole surviving US "windmill" manufacturer [ 1 ] ).
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Little Downham: 1251: Little Downham Cornwell's Mill: Tower: Windmill World: Little Downham Good Intent Mill Tower: Burnt down 13 June 1884. [17] Little Paxton: Little Paxton Mill: Smock: Standing c. 1864 [1] Littleport: Arber's Mill: Tower: 1840s Little Wilbraham: Little Wilbraham Mill: Tower: c. 1820 [18] Windmill World: Lode: Smock
The cloth is extended or retracted by a rod and lever system, and connected with a shutter bar on each sail. Adjustment of the roller reefing sail can be made without stopping the mill. This type of sail was popular in Yorkshire, although the only remaining mill with roller reefing sails intact is Ballycopeland Windmill in Northern Ireland.
This is a list of operational, offshore wind farms in the North Sea.. This information is gathered from multiple Internet sources, [1] [2] and primarily the 4C Offshore's Global Offshore Wind Farm Map and Database and is current up to July 2015.
Heckington Windmill is the only eight-sailed tower windmill still standing in the United Kingdom with its sails intact. Heckington is located between Sleaford and Boston in Lincolnshire, England. The mill stands very close to Heckington railway station, hence its name of the 'Station Mill' in the 19th century. The windmill is designated a Grade ...