NHER 35749 (Monument record) - Site of Gaywood Mills

Corn windmill marked as active on (S1).
Homeland Road now on site.
E. Rose (NLA), 24 October 2000.

This site is still marked 'Corn Mills' on a map of 1905 (S2), but by 1927 (S3) Homelands Road has been built over it.
(S4) notes that this was a windmill on the Gaywood Tithe map of 1838 (S5), and sales particulars from 1839 cited by (S4) suggest that the brick tower mill had been 'built about twenty years' and drove three pairs of French stones, with corn screens, flour machine and jumper, flour mill to which is attached a small horse mill wheel, granary, two stables, hay loft, cart shed and piggery and mill house. Particulars from 1849 make reference to a steam mill, as does a notice in the Lynn Advertiser from 1870. The sale of the 'steam milling plant' is reported in 1908, and an advertisement for building materials posted in the Lynn Advertiser in 1912 suggests that by this date the steam mill had been demolished. It appears that the tower mill was demolished in 1914.
See (S4) for further details and photographs.
It appears from Google Earth images that the final building from this milling complex, which stood set back from the junction between Homelands Road and Gaywood Road was demolished sometime between 2007 and 2011 to make way for an apartment complex.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 16 July 2019.