Greenhill Windmill

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Greenhill Windmill
Origin
Mill nameGreenhill Windmill / Windmill Farm windmill
Mill location Greenhill, Victoria
Coordinates 37°11′59″S144°26′08″E / 37.199688°S 144.435487°E / -37.199688; 144.435487 Coordinates: 37°11′59″S144°26′08″E / 37.199688°S 144.435487°E / -37.199688; 144.435487
Year built1856
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Purpose Corn mill
Type Tower mill
StoreysFour storey tower
No. of sailsFour sails

Greenhill Windmill is a traditional masonry tower windmill, built in 1856 at Greenhill Farm near Kyneton, Victoria, Australia.

Joseph Hall (1804-21 August 1871) and William Hoad purchased thirty hectares of farm land located on Metcalfe Road, Green Hill, at the original Crown sales in 1855. The following year they erected the windmill, using bluestone quarried on their property. [1] [2] [3]

Joseph Hall was born at Dacre, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England, and married Annie Walton on 23 July 1831 at Kirkoswald. He became a local Kyneton pioneer who resided for a time at Sunbury Lodge prior to moving to Windmill Farm and then lived Park Hall, Lauriston where he died on 21 August 1871. [4]

The property was bequeathed to the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) in 1984. [5] is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register (H0311) and Shire of Metcalf Heritage Overlay (HO127) [1] and is classified by the National Trust. [6]

The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is a community-based, non-government organisation committed to promoting and conserving Australia's indigenous, natural and historic heritage places of cultural significance in Victoria. It was founded in 1956.

The mill is located at 1203 Kyneton-Metcalfe Road, Kyneton, Victoria 3444

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References

  1. 1 2 Victorian Heritage Database, Windmill Farm Windmill
  2. Shire of Kyneton. No.311. Windmill, Windmill Farm, Greenhill, Kyneton. Victoria Government Gazette No 100 Wednesday, October 9, 1974 p.3650
  3. "Wind Energy Guide". Saturday, 9 November 2019
  4. Lynch, John (2008), Joseph Hall (1804-1871) Kyneton pioneer : including Park Hall, Windmill Farm & Sunbury Lodge, John Lynch, retrieved 5 January 2017
  5. WIND - POWERED FLOUR & GRAIN MILLS IN AUSTRALIA
  6. Windmill Farm Windmill