Gazeley Mill is a

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Gazeley Gazeley is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England and is part of the West Suffolk UK Parliament constituency. In 2005 it had a population of 740. A house converted from a windmill survives in the ...

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, England which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History

Gazeley Mill was built in 1837 by William Death, replacing a nearby

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. The mill drove five pairs of

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s. A Gippeswyck oil engine was installed by Turners, the

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s in 1880. In 1893, a one-and-a-half-sackA capacity of 1½ sacks (30 stone / 190kg) per hour roller mill made by Messrs E R & F Turner of

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was installed. This was driven by the oil engine, which could also drive three of the five pairs of millstones. The mill ceased work c.1920 and was stripped of machinery and house converted in 1947.

Description

Gazeley Mill is a six storey tower mill. It had a boat shaped cap with a gallery, winded by a fantail. The four

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drove five pairs of millstones.

Millers

*William De’ath 1844–1893 *R J Harvey 1893–1910

References

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