Crowfield Windmill

Crowfield Windmill
Crowfield Mill, April 2007
Origin
Mill name	Crowfield Mill
Mill location	TM 151 571 52°10′12″N 1°08′47″E / 52.17°N 1.14639°E / 52.17; 1.14639
Operator(s)	Private
Year built	c1840
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Smock mill
Storeys	Three storey smock
Base storeys	One storey
Smock sides	Eight sides
Number of sails	Four Sails
Type of sails	Patent sails
Winding	Fantail
Number of pairs of millstones	Two pairs

Crowfield Windmill is a smock mill at Crowfield, Suffolk, England which has been conserved.

History

Crowfield Windmill was originally built as a drainage mill near Great Yarmouth. It was moved to Crowfield c1840 and converted to a corn mill. The mill worked by wind until 1916 when the cap was blown off. An auxiliary engine was used to power the millstones until the mid 1930s.^[1]

Description

For an explanation of the various pieces of machinery, see Mill machinery.

Crowfield Windmill is a three storey smock mill on a single storey brick base. It had four patent sails and the boat shaped cap was winded by a fantail.^[1] It has two pairs of underdrift millstones which are mounted on a hurst frame.^[2]

Millers

• Gibbons - 1930s

Reference for above:-^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Dolman, Peter (1978). Windmills in Suffolk. Ipswich: Suffolk Mills Group. pp. p41. ISBN 0-9506447-0-6. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Flint, Brian (1979). Suffolk Windmills. Woodbridge: Boydell. pp. p50. ISBN 0-85115-112-4.