Wreningham
postmill |
c.1910
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Wreningham post windmill stood to the south of the village at Toprow on the west side of the Norwich road. The mill buck was set on a roundhouse and was turned to wind via an 8 bladed fantail on a frame attached to the end of the ladder leading up to the leanto porch. The mill was built with common sails to drive the two pairs of 4ft 6ins French burr stones, a flour mill and a malt mill but the sails were eventually converted to patent sails and in later years an auxiliary steam engine was installed. A bake office was also run on the site. |
To Millers & Bakers |
WRENINGHAM Norfolk Chronicle - 18th February 1837 |
WRENINGHAM |
HADDISCOE, THORPE, WRENINGHAM & WYMONDHAM |
WRENINGHAM & WYMONDHAM |
TERRIBLE THUNDERSTORM IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. |
2nd August 1879 – terrible thunderstorm & cyclone (several tower mills decapitated) |
WRENINGHAM & WYMONDHAM Windmills at above dismantled and much injured by violence of wind of the 3rd. The Brook (Browick) mill sustained injuries, part of one of the sails being hurled into field adjoining. Eastern Daily Press - 4th August 1879 |
WRENNINGHAM |
An indenture of 1887 lists the following items: |
WYMONDHAM & WRENNINGHAM |
In Wreningham Lot 2. A POST WINDMILL Driving 2 pairs of 4½-feet French Stones CONTAINING ROUND HOUSE AND TWO FLOORS FITTED WITH Chain and Sack Tackle, Flour Mill,Two Flour Bins and Malt Mill, ALSO Granary, Leant-to Shed, Stable, Cart Shed, Piggeries and Out-houses, with a piece of Accomodation Arable Land adjoining |
Sale Particulars - Friday, 30th September 1887 |
Harry Andrews outside the mill c.1900 |
WRENINGHAM MILLER’S DEATH |
Kelly's 1912: Pillar Letter Box, near the Mill, cleared at 10.45 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. week days only. |
c.1980 Harry Apling reported that Mrs. Agnes Cain, 12 West Raynham, Fakenham, whose mother was Harry Andrew’s daughter had a photo of the mill still in working order. |
O. S. Map 1880 Courtesy of NLS map images |
Faden's map 1797: Windmill
White's 1864: Henry Banham, corn miller |
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Nat Grid Ref TM16479815 |
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