Winfarthing smockmill |
c.1900 |
Winfarthing smockmill had a ten sided tower with very few windows that was built on a brick base only 18 inches high. The mill had a Norfolk boat shaped cap with a petticoat and 8 bladed fantail. The four double shuttered sails, each with 8 bays of 3 shutters were struck by rack and pinion and powered 3 pairs of French burr stones. A further 2 pairs of French burr stones were worked in the adjacent steam mill. |
c.1925 |
c.1926 |
The last miller was Horace William Lincoln, who took over in 1907 and having repaired the mill, worked it until at least 1926. |
1928 |
c.1930 |
By June 1929 only one pair of sails had shutters and the mill then worked for a time using an oil engine. Cecil Thompson, millwright of Hardwick dismantled the machinery around 1937 and in September of that year the mill had been reduced to a single storey with a pointed roof. |
Tithe map 1841 - as redrawn by Harry Apling |
Tithe Award 1842 |
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No. 665 |
Further Mill Meadow |
Pasture |
0a. 3r. 0p. |
4s. Tithe |
No. 734 relates to Roydon_Shelfanger_Road_postmill although confusingly, that mill was not erected until c.1847. Possibly an earlier mill was present on the site. |
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Miscellaneous |
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William Woodrow's Assignment |
WINFARTHING, Norfolk |
WINFARTHING Norfolk |
By 1984 the original cant posts c.15 ft. high had been reboarded in new cedar weatherboard and the structure was being used as a summer house. 18 ins. of the brick base remained. |
O. S. Map 1883 Courtesy of NLS map images |
1828: Mill built
1853: William Jarrett, miller
1862: William Jarrett, miller
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