NHER 15104 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval mill latterly known as Greengrass's Mill

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Summary

This is the site of a post medieval post mill, relocated to this site in the mid 19th century, and demolished 1907/8.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG50NW
Civil Parish GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Map

Site of post mill.
Recorded on (S1) as being at this point north of 'Mill Road' (now Hamilton Road, northwest of the junction of the present Hamilton Road and Windsor Avenue).
Mill built by John Baverly after obtaining lease from Yarmouth Corporation in 1851.
Used body from site NHER 15678 on new roundhouse.
Lease passed to William Beevor prior to 1855 and then to Thomas Greengrass who eventually owned the mill, later run by his son T. Greengrass Junior.
Last used in 1904.
Mill demolished in 1907, last standing mill in Yarmouth, east of river.
Information from source [1].
See (S2).
D. Edwards (NAU) 31 July 1979.

Photograph of mill in Norfolk Record Office.

A distant view of the mill can be seen in the plate in (S3), a photograph taken before 1891.
E. Rose (NLA) 5 January 1996.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-1907. Ordnance Survey Map. 25 inch to the mile. Second Edition. 1:2500.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Rye, C. G. 1970. Yarmouth Windmills on the Denes. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXV Pt I pp 148-151.
  • <S3> Photograph: 1993. Yarmouth Archaeology. p.14.

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Record last edited

Nov 22 2012 3:18PM

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