NHER 15672 (Monument record) - Site of North Denes Mill

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Summary

This is the site of a post medieval post mill, which was built in the late 18th century. The post mill was replaced by a smock mill, which was destroyed by fire in the mid 19th century.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

Site of wind mill.
Built 1770, burnt down in 1852.
Site levelled 1879.
See (S1), grid reference wrongly given.
E. Rose (NAU) 29 January 1980.

The mill was 'new erecting' in June 1779 and was replaced in 1842 by a smock mill (it was formerly a post mill) known as North Denes.
It was this that was burnt down 1852.
E. Rose (NAU) 26 March 1982.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: Rye, C. G. 1970. Yarmouth Windmills on the Denes. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXV Pt I pp 148-151. p 148.

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Record last edited

Jan 15 2013 11:43AM

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