Crowfield Windmill is a

smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. This t ...

at Crowfield,

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, England which has been conserved.

History

''Crowfield Windmill'' was originally built as a drainage mill near

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. It was moved to Crowfield c1840 and converted to a

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. 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.

Description

''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. It has two pairs of underdrift

millstone Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for triturating, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains. They are sometimes referred to as grindstones or grinding stones. Millstones come in pairs: a s ...

s which are mounted on a hurst frame.

Millers

*Gibbons - 1930s Reference for above:-

References

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