NHER 10543 (Monument record) - Site of Caister White Mill and later steam engine house

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Summary

This is the site of a drainage mill, marked on Bryant's map of 1826 as Caister White Mill. The mill was replaced by a steam pump in the 1860s. This has in turn been replaced by an electrically powered pump.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

Engine house.
Wind pump on (S1).
E. Rose (NAU)

(S2) gives description of a steam pump in this approximate location said to have dated from the 1860s, now destroyed and replaced by electric pump. But not certain that this was on this site, possibly the building marked on Ordnance Survey a hundred yards or so to the west.
E. Rose (NLA) 9 January 1998.

Marked as Caister White Mill on (S3).
E. Rose (NLA), 6 June 2002.

August 2007. Watching brief as part of Broadland flood alleviation project.
The mill was revealed in plan. Further details to follow.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 28 August 2007.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1805-1836. Ordnance Survey Map. One inch to the mile. First Edition.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Ward, J.. 1997. Smoke Drifting Over the Reeds.. NIAS Journal. Vol 6, no 2, p 46.
  • <S3> Map: Bryant, A.. 1826. Bryant's Map of Norfolk.

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Record last edited

Jun 25 2018 9:25AM

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