NHER 5787 (Monument record) - Site of post medieval windmill, possibly Whiscards Mill

Cropmark of ring ditch adjacent to trackway (the latter is indicated on Ordnance Survey maps as dotted line) south of South Creake village. Unit air photograph references. TF8535A to D inclusive.
First recorded by D. A. Edwards (NAU): flight 17 on 21 July 1975.
D. A. Edwards (NAU) 22 October 1975.

(S1) shows windmill on approximately this site.

However G. Pooley (NARG) claims it is the site of the village pound! H. Apling confirms a windmill, a postmill blown over in February 1860 and rebuilt. Last used 1866.
E. Rose (NAU) 2 February 1982.

See correspondance G. Pooley/H. Apling in file, showing mill was here as early as 1802 but there has been confusion with another mill in the parish.
E. Rose (NAU) 2 December 1986.

Examination of Enclosure map 1860 (tithe map lost) at Norfolk Record Office shows that field named as Mill Furlong is at site NHER 23274; no mill named at this point. G Pooley thinks that NHER 23274 may well be the correct site; but the drawing of a four-sailed postmill with roundhouse which he mentions as being on the parish church's copy of the enclosure map, is not apparently on the Norfolk Record Office copy. Documentation still filed under NHER 5787 for the time being. Known as Whiscard's Mill, recorded from 1690 onwards. Blown over 1860, sold 1886.
E. Rose (NAU) 2 February 1987.

In fact the site of Whiscards Mill was at site NHER 23312, just to east, from 1841 onwards, and did not appear on the 1860 map as it was temporarily blown down that year. But possibly the pre-1841 mill may have stood on site NHER 5857.
Information from H. Apling.
E. Rose (NAU) 11 February 1987.

April 2026. Northwest Norfolk Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&M) Project.
The site of the post medieval windmill described above is visible as the low earthwork of a mound on visualised lidar data (S2) and the cropmark of a ring ditch on aerial photographs (S3). As the lidar survey was flown relatively recently (2015) it is likely that the mound still survives.
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 20 April 2026.