c.1908
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Old Buckenham
Dam Brigg postmill |
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c.1908 |
Old Buckenham Dam Brigg postmill stood to the southwest of New Buckenham just inside the Old Buckenham side of the boundary, with the Mill House on the Banham side. The parish boundary actually took a detour to the south at the crossroads thereby incorporating the mill within Old Buckenham. |
Royal Exchange Fire Insurance policy 80953
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Brame Oxford & Ciceley his wife of Blythburgh in the County of Suffolk, as Proprietors & Edwd. Bullock of ----, as Mortgagee. On a House, Shed & Stable adjoing plaister built & thatch'd situate in Old Buckenham in the Co. of Norfolk, Tent., Mattw. Mickleburge, Miller, £100. On a Flower House Stud & plaister built & tiled belonging & on the Mill therein, £50. On a Wind Mill near, £100. 25th June 1781 |
Royal Exchange Fire Insurance policy 87605
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Jno. Mickleburgh of Gifsing in the County of Norfolk, Farmer. On a House stud built and Thatch'd situate in Old Buckenham in the County aforesaid, Tenant Matthew Mickleburgh, Miller, £100. On a timber Windmill near, £50. On a Granary Stud built & tiled near, £50. 9th October 1783 |
Whereas Matthew Mickleburgh, late of the Parish of Old Buckenham in the county of Norfolk, Miller, did assign over his effects to the Rev. John France, Clerk & Samuel Moss, Draper ... for the equal benefit of his Creditors ... a dividend of five shillings in the pound to be paid ... Norfolk Chronicle - 9th February 1793 |
Very much injured in gale 24 November 1836 Suffolk Chronicle - 26th November 1836 |
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Tithe map 1842 - as redrawn by Harry Apling |
Tithe Award 1843 |
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| No. 342 | Danbridge Mill, Yards etc | Pasture |
1a. 2r. 36p. | 19/3d |
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Tithe map 1846 - as redrawn by Harry Apling |
Tithe Award 1846 |
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| No. 75 | Part of House & Garden | 0a. 0r. 15p. | 3d | |
The map shows Dam Brigg postmill just over the boundary into old Buckenham. However, part of the house and garden are just inside the Banham boundary. |
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On the right of Dambrigg stood another Post Mill, latterly the property of Mr. Smith but he also ground with a small steam mill in later years. The old mill seems to have been pulled down between 1910 and the first Great War. Some Notes on Old Buckenham - Edited by H.E. Read 1944 - 1946 |
The mill had a small buck with a pannier built onto the right side, and a mansard roof. The buck stood quite high off the ground - maybe the piers were raised - and between it and the roundhouse roof was a cylindrical, vertically boarded section which was either attached to the top of the roundhouse roof, or the bottom of the buck (this was falling apart as the mill was out of use). Sue Burden - 7th March 2022 |
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O. S. Map 1883 Courtesy of NLS map images |
Unallocated millers from old Buckenham: |
1781: Matthew Mickleburgh, tenant miller |
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