Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8621 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Burgh St Margaret Drainage Mill |
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Summary
An early 19th century brick drainage mill, converted to a house in the 1960s and later developed to form part of various business uses.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 4181 1198 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG41SW |
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| Parish: | FLEGGBURGH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Drainage mill.
Brick tower mill, converted to observation gallery for attached weatherboarded restaurant, by addition of large room at top with roof imitating old mill cap.
Seen by E. Rose (NAU) 15 November 1978.
Shown as Burgh Mill on (S1).
E. Rose (NAU)
Apparently the mill established in 1804 at the enclosure of the common, blown down in 1840, and rebuilt by the Drainage Commissioners from the top of the door upwards, to carry patent sails and self winding gear, over 9 metres high to curb. See (S2).
E. Rose (NLA) 28 Jan 2000.
Work here by William T. England in 1896. Pit wheel later transferred to Ashtree Mill. (S3).
E. Rose (NLA), 29 November 2005.
Monument Types
- DRAINAGE MILL (18th Century to 21st Century - 1800 AD to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1994. TG41/X - AB. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1824-1836. Ordnance Survey First Edition 1 inch.. |
| <S2> | Publication: Wade-Martins, S. & Williamson, T.. 1999. Roots of Change. p 150. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Allard, P.. 2005. William T. England, Yarmouth Millwright. Yarmouth Archaeology. p 23. |
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