Record Details

NHER Number:13237
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Strumpshaw windmill

Summary

Faden’s map of 1797 marks this as the site of a windmill. It stood on the highest land in the parish and was pulled down in 1916 after closing in 1908. The site was used for transmitting commercial telegraphs during 1803.

Images

  • Strumpshaw windmill.  © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:TG 353 072
Map Sheet:TG30NE
Parish:STRUMPSHAW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Site of wind mill as marked on (S1) (roads since straightened). On highest ground in parish; used as signalling station in Napoleonic Wars. Pulled down 1916 (Bolingbroke Collection).
The mill was a ten-sided smock mill with double-shuttered Cubitt's sails. Although surviving to 1916, it had closed in 1908.
Newspaper cutting in file (S2).
E. Rose (NAU) 18 September 1981.

It was marked on (S3) - informant, March 1982.

(Strumpshaw windmill)
Reference (S4) notes that it was a commercial telegraph that was in use, not military as the above might imply, in 1803.
E. Rose (NLA) 11 April 1997.

Monument Types

  • SIGNAL STATION (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • WINDMILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797.
<S2>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1981. [Article on Strumpshaw Mill]. 17 September.
<S3>Map: Bowen, E.. 1749. A Map of the County of Norfolk.
<S4>Article in Serial: Fone, J. F. 1996. Signalling from Norwich to the Coast in the Napoleonic Period. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt III pp 356-361. p 360.

Related records - none

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