1: THE TECHNICAL INFORMATION PROJECT
2: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TRADITIONAL WINDMILL TECHNOLOGY IN ENGLAND
3: BEDFORDSHIRE
4: CAMBRIDGESHIRE A-F
5: CAMBRIDGESHIRE G-P
6: CAMBRIDGESHIRE Q-U
7: CAMBRIDGESHIRE V-Z
8: CAMBRIDGESHIRE - WEST WRATTING-YAXLEY
9: CHANNEL ISLANDS
10: CHESHIRE
11: DERBYSHIRE
12: DURHAM
13: ESSEX A-LITTLE BENTLEY
14: ESSEX BIRCH-F
15: ESSEX G-O
16: ESSEX P-TERLING
17: ESSEX M-HIGH ONGAR
18: ESSEX - ORSETT, BAKER STREET
19: ESSEX THAXTED-LITTLE TOTHAM
20: ESSEX - UPMINSTER-SAFFRON WALDEN
21: ESSEX - GREAT WALTHAM-Z
22: HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT
23: HERTFORDSHIRE
24: KENT A-G
25: KENT H-O
26: KENT R-STODMARSH
27: KENT - SUTTON VALENCE-Z
28: LANCASHIRE
29: LEICESTERSHIRE
30: LINCOLNSHIRE A-FULLETBY
31: LINCOLNSHIRE FULNEY-K
32: LINCOLNSHIRE L-OASBY (HAYDOR)
33: LINCOLNSHIRE - OSBOURNBY-R
34: LINCOLNSHIRE - S
35: LINCOLNSHIRE T-Z
36: NORFOLK A-C
37: NORFOLK D-Z
38: NORTHUMBERLAND
39: NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
40: SHROPSHIRE
41: SOMERSET
42: SUFFOLK A-F
43: SUFFOLK G-Z
44: SUFFOLK W-Z
45: SURREY A-O
46: SURREY P-Z
47: WARWICKSHIRE A-N
48: WARWICKSHIRE O-Z
49: WILTSHIRE
50: YORKSHIRE
THE TECHNICAL INFORMATION PROJECT
These technical descriptions were compiled over a period of twenty-five years both from other writers’ research and my own investigations. The images are uploaded to the catalogue here.
The material is still gradually being added to. Unfortunately, there are some mills where the machinery (best seen with everything in its proper position) is currently dismantled or access is for one reason or another difficult to obtain. It has been decided to leave an inspection of these to some future date when hopefully it will have become possible.
The information given in the descriptions is accurate to the best of my ability; nonetheless corrections will be welcome. It is possible some of the orientations given (north, south, east, west etc.) are wrong. I confess to having taken a few liberties and used some milling terms interchangeably, such as “nut”, “cog” and “pinion”, “wire machine/flour dresser/flour machine” or “truck wheel” and “centring wheel”.
Guy Blythman September 2019
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
Buckland Stephen Buckland, molinologist
Dolman 1986 Peter Dolman, Lincolnshire Windmills, Lincolnshire County Council 1986
DS Denis Sanders
Flint Brian Flint, Suffolk Windmills, Boydell Press 1979
FWG Frank Gregory
HESS H E S Simmons Collection, Science Museum Library
HRH/HSRH/RH H S R (Ronald) Hawksley
KSW Karl Wood paintings
LG London Gazette
MB Mark Barnard
McD R & R McDermott, The Standing Windmills of East Sussex, 1978
PD Paul Davies
PWSG Polegate Windmill Souvenir Guide, 2nd edition 1969, compiled by L Stevens
RW Rex Wailes
SA Sussex Advertiser
SF Stanley Freese
SMG Suffolk Mills Group
Stoyel Alan Stoyel, The Windmills Of Thomas Hennell, Landmark Publishing, undated
TIMS Transactions of the International Molinological Society
TJM T J Mason
TMS Quoted in HESS, identity unclear. Transactions of the International Molinological Society
W & WS Wind– and Watermill Section
