NHER 13199 (Monument record) - Site of late 18th-century smock mill known as Cooke's Mill and later Bristow's Mill

Stump of wind mill built 1797, burnt January 1903. It was the first in the country to have patent sails.
During the Luddite riots thirteen incendiary fires were seen from the top at once. Information from NCM Bolingbroke Collection.
This was a large ten-sided smock mill on brick base. The stump no longer survives - informant.
E. Rose (NAU) 23 March 1982.

August 2009
The mill was constructed for Samuel Cooke, son of a prominent local farming family. Surviving photographs from the later 19th century show a very large smock mill with wide sails (reputedly 13 feet 10 inches). A steam plant was added in 1848. After the smock mill burnt down in 1903, the steam mill was restored and the business continued on the site, eventually ending in 1971. The former mill site is now part of a housing development, although the Mill House still stands on the Yarmouth Road. For full details see (S1).
A. Yardy (HES), 10, February 2011.