Crowfield Windmill

*Crowfield Windmill*
Crowfield Windmill
	Crowfield Mill, April 2007
Origin
Mill name	Crowfield Mill
Mill location	TM 151 571
Coordinates	52°10′12″N1°08′47″E / 52.17000°N 1.14639°E Coordinates: 52°10′12″N1°08′47″E / 52.17000°N 1.14639°E
Operator(s)	Private
Year built	c1840
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Smock mill
Storeys	Three-storey smock
Base storeys	One storey
Smock sides	Eight sides
No. of sails	Four Sails
Type of sails	Patent sails
Winding	Fantail
No. of pairs of millstones	Two pairs

Last updated March 22, 2019

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

The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded or thatched tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. This type of windmill got its name from its resemblance to smocks worn by farmers in an earlier period.

Crowfield is a village in Suffolk, England. It is in Helmingham and Coddenham ward in the Mid Suffolk local authority, in the East of England region.

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket and Felixstowe, one of the largest container ports in Europe.

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]

A windpump is a type of windmill which is used for pumping water.

Great Yarmouth, often known to locals as Yarmouth, is a seaside town in Norfolk, England. It straddles the narrow mouth of the River Yare, approximately 20 miles (30 km) east of Norwich. It had an estimated population of 38,693 at the 2011 Census, making it the most third populous place in Norfolk.

A gristmill grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to both the grinding mechanism and the building that holds it.

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.^[1] It has two pairs of underdrift millstones which are mounted on a hurst frame.^[2]

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, for grinding wheat or other grains.

Millers

Gibbons - 1930s

Reference for above:-^[2]

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References

1 2 Dolman, Peter (1978). Windmills in Suffolk. Ipswich: Suffolk Mills Group. p. 41. ISBN 0-9506447-0-6.
1 2 Flint, Brian (1979). Suffolk Windmills. Woodbridge: Boydell. p. 50. ISBN 0-85115-112-4.

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[Dolman-1] 1 2 Dolman, Peter (1978). Windmills in Suffolk. Ipswich: Suffolk Mills Group. p. 41. ISBN 0-9506447-0-6.

[Flint-2] 1 2 Flint, Brian (1979). Suffolk Windmills. Woodbridge: Boydell. p. 50. ISBN 0-85115-112-4.

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