Wind Engines in Britain 🌍

Amberley working Museum, near Arundel, West Sussex

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Postcode: BN18 9LT

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wind engine by Duke & Ockenden of Littlehampton

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Calbourne watermill, Isle of Wight

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Charterhouse monastery, Horsham, Sussex

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Éolienne Bollée No.1 - substantially complete; restoration under consideration

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Crux Easton, Hampshire #1777

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Wind engine by John Wallis Titt function:Corn mill|Pumping mill/wheel|Saw mill - magnificently restored in 2002

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #1777 - Wind engine, Crux Easton (has photos)

This wind engine is of the 'Simplex' type designed by John Wallis Titt, and was constructed in 1891 for the Earl of Caernarvon to pump water from a nearby well. It also operated a saw and corn mill. It ceased work in the 1920s, but was restored in 2003.

Crux Easton wind engine [2011-10-23]

Chris Allen

Crux Easton Wind Engine [2004-04-25]

ANDY FISH

The Wind Engine [2006-10-21]

Ian Wallace

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Listed Building, Grade II: WIND ENGINE AND FORMER MILL HOUSE AT SU 4268 5632 (listed 1991-06-17)

Associated charity THE CRUX EASTON WIND ENGINE CONSERVATION TRUST Trust Website

Heritage Lottery Fund - £202600 : 03 Aug 1999 : Crux Easton Wind Engine Restoration

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Wind Engine And Former Mill House At Su 4268 5632
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Halstead House Farm, Halstead, Tilton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire

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Postcode: LE7 9DJ

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19th Century wind engine

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Old Kiln Museum, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey

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hybrid wind engine, consisting of a Climax mechanism on a Duke & Ockenden tower

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The Bob Morse collection, Repps, Norfolk

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a collection of restored wind engines

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Historical locations

Bury St Edmunds

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John Wallis Titt wind engine

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Chilworth Friary, Killarney, Ireland

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Duke & Ockenden

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Creech St Michael, Somerset

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Halladay's patent design of 1854, as manufactured by Bury and Pollard, Pollard Jephson and Co., Owens and Co. and others. The last examples to survive complete were Angmering (now gone) and Iwade (now restored by Bob Morse). Halstead House Farm, Leicestershire, partially surviving, was another one of the same type.

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Hawkinge, Kent

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Hinton Charterhouse, Avon

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John Wallis Titt wind engine

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Marchwood Yacht Club, Southampton

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Postcode: SO40 4UX

John Wallis Titt wind engine - purchased 1873 for £155, now long since disappeared

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Mow Cop, Staffordshire

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John Wallis Titt wind engine

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The UK does not have the wide open prairies to be found in the USA, Australia, or South Africa, and as such did not have huge quantities of the metal windpumps which these countries tend to associate with the word "windmill".

In the UK, these machines are generally called "wind engines", to distinguish them from our windmills which (predominantly) grind grain.

Wind engines have 4 main distinguishing features:

Manufacturers

John Wallis Titt

The wind engines made by John Wallis Titt were some of the finest British made wind engines.

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Duke & Ockenden of Littlehampton

Duke & Ockenden, commonly known as DANDO, produced wind engines from at least 1869-1914. They still exist, but now are mostly concerned with specialist drilling for water etc.

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