NHER 13237 (Monument record) - Site of Strumpshaw windmill
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG30NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | STRUMPSHAW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Site of wind mill as marked on (S1) (roads since straightened). On highest ground in parish; used as signalling station in Napoleonic Wars. Pulled down 1916 (Bolingbroke Collection).
The mill was a ten-sided smock mill with double-shuttered Cubitt's sails. Although surviving to 1916, it had closed in 1908.
Newspaper cutting in file (S2).
E. Rose (NAU) 18 September 1981.
It was marked on (S3) - informant, March 1982.
(Strumpshaw windmill)
Reference (S4) notes that it was a commercial telegraph that was in use, not military as the above might imply, in 1803.
E. Rose (NLA) 11 April 1997.
Associated Sources (6)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF6047 Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
- <S2> SNF97572 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1981. [Article on Strumpshaw Mill]. 17 September.
- <S3> SNF4820 Map: Bowen, E.. 1749. A Map of the County of Norfolk.
- <S4> SNF6077 Article in Serial: Fone, J. F. 1996. Signalling from Norwich to the Coast in the Napoleonic Period. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt III pp 356-361. p 360.
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Record last edited
Jul 22 2024 7:01PM