NHER 14474 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval windmill

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Summary

The site of a post medieval windmill, marked on 18th and 19th century maps. Nothing remains today except a low earth mound.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG00NW
Civil Parish GARVESTONE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

Mound, mill mound?, ditched. Greenhouses on it.

Reported by Ordnance Survey 2 February 1979.

Low, 1m high mound surrounded by field ditch on north and northeast next to Windmill House. Hardly perceptible as mound, under glasshouses. Marked as a mill on (S1).
A. Lawson (NAU, 16 November 1979.

Mill also marked on (S2).

A post mill, last used in 1868 and demolished in January 1870. Informant.
E. Rose (NAU) 4 February 1982.

  • --- 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> Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.

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Record last edited

Mar 11 2026 4:27PM

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