8-779: Lower Mill is the name of a number of mills. United Kingdom [ edit ] Windmills [ edit ] Lower Mill, Dalham , a windmill in Suffolk Lower Mill, Eastry, a windmill in Kent Lower Mill, Great Baddow, a windmill in Essex Lower Mill, Hailsham, a windmill in East Sussex Lower Mill, Hockwold, a drainage mill in Norfolk Lower Mill, Poringland,
16-749: A windmill in Norfolk Lower Mill, Radwinter, a windmill in Essex Lower Mill, Stanton, a windmill in Suffolk Lower Mill, Woodchurch , a windmill in Kent Watermills [ edit ] Lower Mill, Cheadle , a watermill in Cheshire Lower Mill, Crayford, a watermill on the River Cray , Kent Lower Mill, East Malling, a watermill on the East Malling Stream , Kent Lower Mill, Shoreham,
24-403: A beehive cap with a gallery which was winded by a fantail . The four Patent sails were 27 feet (8.23 m) long and 7 feet (2.13 m) wide carried on a cast-iron windshaft. They drove three pairs of French Burr millstones which are mounted on a hurst frame on the first floor. Reference for above:- Windmill fantail A fantail is a small windmill mounted at right angles to
32-582: A watermill on the River Darent , Kent United States [ edit ] Elliottville Lower Mill , East Killingly, Connecticut, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District , Boston, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed Lower Mill (Honeoye Falls, New York) , NRHP-listed Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
40-405: Is a Grade II* listed smock mill at Dalham , Suffolk , England which has been preserved. Lower Mill or Opposition Mill was built in the 1790s by a Mr Ruffle. The sails were blown off in 1802. She was working until 1926 and by 1935 was in need of repairs. These were completed in 1938 but the mill again deteriorated until it was purchased in 1972 by Frank Farrow and restoration began with
48-502: The intention of returning the mill to working order, assisted by grants from Suffolk County Council and the Historic Buildings Council for England . The windmill's restoration work was carried out by Gormley and Goodman Engineers of Warwickshire between 1979 and 1980. (see also Bromham Watermill and Stevington Windmill, Bedfordshire. Lower Mill is a three-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base. It has
56-712: The sails, at the rear of the windmill , and which turns the cap automatically to bring it into the wind. The fantail was patented in 1745 by Edmund Lee, a blacksmith working at Brockmill Forge near Wigan , England, and was perfected on mills around Leeds and Hull towards the end of the 18th century. Fantails are found on all types of traditional windmills and are especially useful where changes in wind direction are frequent. They are more common in England, Denmark and Germany than in other parts of Europe, and are little-known on windmills elsewhere except where English millwrighting traditions were in evidence. The rotating fantail turns
64-489: The title Lower Mill . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lower_Mill&oldid=423277437 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lower Mill, Dalham Lower Mill or Opposition Mill
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