Crowfield Windmill
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.
Description
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. It has two pairs of underdrift millstones which are mounted on a hurst frame.
Millers
- Gibbons - 1930s
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References
- ^ Dolman, Peter (1978). Windmills in Suffolk. Ipswich: Suffolk Mills Group. p. 41. ISBN 0-9506447-0-6.
- ^ Flint, Brian (1979). Suffolk Windmills. Woodbridge: Boydell. p. 50. ISBN 0-85115-112-4.