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The Importance of the Broads Drainage Mills.

The Importance of the Broads Drainage Mills. Although windmills had been in use for grinding corn since the 12th century, it is believed that windmills for land drainage were …

Heritage Statement, Oby Mill, Norfolk Broads. History

Oby Mill is a Broads drainage mill, and the oldest dated windmill in the area. Windmills were built in The Broads to raise water from the marshes into the rivers, and thus regulate the marshland water levels for grazing. Cattle were fattened on the marshes, and then …

Usines de transformation du mil

Selon les caractéristiques du millet, du millet gluant, du millet kodo, de l'éleusine, du sorgho et d'autres céréales, notre société a conçu un ensemble complet de technologies et …

(PDF) Drainage Windmills on the Broads

The first section of the book places the mills in context, briefly covering the story of the drainage of the Broads, with map sources referred to, including Faden's 1797 map of …

Norfolk Drainage Windmills

Scope and content. Photographs (copies), booklets, maps and research notes relating to drainage windmills in Norfolk. Includes:

10 Broads mills you might not have heard of

The Drainage Mills: Our story begins with the arrival of the wind driven water pumps (drainage mills) to the Broads region from the 1750's onwards. They were built to improve control of the water levels …

Norfolk Drainage Mills, 1988-89

File ACSC-IMA-02-28 - Norfolk Drainage Mills, 1988-89. Contains black and white photographs (and negatives) of the following windmills in Norfolk: Envelope 1: …

Drainage Windmills on the Broads

Rex Wailes, in his book Windmills in England, refers to Norfolk drainage mills thus: On the Norfolk Broads marsh mills were recently more numerous since the …

Land of the windmills

But do many of the enquirers realise that most of the mills in the Broads are drainage windmills, not mills for grinding corn? Today there are still 63 drainage mills of all kinds …