Harleston
Redenhall Road postmill |
Harleston School Lane postmill was in the Redenhall end of the town that in the early 1800s was known as Redenhall with Harleston - all that part of the Town of Harleston to the South and East of the Turnpike Road which passed through the town from Bungay to Scole. The mill had a roundhouse and the site had a frontage of 250 ft along the Waveney Valley Railway. Four patent sails were powering two pairs of French burr stones in 1860 and three pairs of stones were advertised for sale when the mill was dismantled in 1886. The mill was self winding via a fantail and the main post was 17 feet high and 7 feet in circumference. |
To Millers |
HARLESTON, Norfolk |
HARLESTON, |
HARLESTON, |
George Durrant is instructed to Sell by Auction at the Magpie Inn, Harleston on Wednesday 7 May, 1873 at 4 for 5 o'c in the Afternoon, the following PROPERTIES as previously advertised - |
HARLESTON |
Sales by Auction by Maddison & Miles |
O.S. Map 1883 Courtesy of NLS map images |
Unallocated Harleston millers: |
White's 1836: Cook & Sims, corn millers February 1860: Mill advertised to be let
September 1862: Mill advertised for sale by auction April 1873: Mill advertised for sale by auction White's 1883: Robert Cullingham, miller O.S. map 1883: Windmill (Corn) May 1886: Dismantled mill gearing, iron windshaft, patent sails, stones etc advertised for sale by auction c.1985: Harry Apling recorded that a bungalow had been built on the site of the mill 2007: Hill Farm |
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Nat Grid Ref TM25088385 |
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