Topjoki Manor Mill, Angelniemi

A wind-powered mill in Finland.

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This mill had eight sails, with bowsprit.

This mill was the only known standing brick tower mill. In a 1909 photograph it stood on a steeply sloping site with a stone base below ground level and a small "pend" in it. The tower with a steep batter could hardly have had more than two floors. It had eight straight-sided tapering sails braced to a bowsprit and the usual Uusimaa cap, but the tailpole does not show.

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• Wailes, Rex, & Auvo Hirsjärvi, "Finnish Mills Part II: Mamsel or Smock Mills", (Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 43, 1970-1971, pp.113-128)

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