Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8605 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Clippesby or Lower Davey's Drainage Mill |
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Summary
A brick tower drainage windmill with boat shaped cap. There is an associated brick engine house nearby.
Images
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 4092 1280 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG41SW |
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| Parish: | ASHBY WITH OBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Drainage. Brick tower mill c.1800; cap remains, part restored, of the "upturned boat" type. Stocks lie on ground, part burnt suggesting struck by lightning. Function usurped by engine in brick shed over culvert to north, probably around turn of century; this itself now defunct.
Visited E. Rose (NAU) 15 November 1978.
Also known as Clippesby Mill. Stocks remained in position until struck by lightning January 1978. Photo in File. (S1) (1973 photo).
E. Rose (NAU).
Marked on (S2).
E. Rose (NAU).
(S3) in file.
Monument Types
- DRAINAGE MILL (18th Century to 21st Century - 1770 AD? to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TG4012A. |
| --- | Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1372905. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1994. TG4012/F - J. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Fiche: Exists. |
| --- | Photograph: CQX10-11. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Smith, A.C.. 1975. Drainage Windmills of the Norfolk Marshes.. no 2. |
| <S2> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
| <S3> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1978. Lightning sets top of windmill ablaze. 4 January. |
Related records - none
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