Husborne Crawley #13504

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A horizontal windmill was experimentally used to power the pug mill at the Duke of Bedford's estate brick kiln in the 1820s. When it became beyond repair by 1830 a replacement watermill was considered, but it was replaced by a conventional windmill in 1831. (Info from A. Cox, Brickmaking: A History and Gazetteer, (Survey of Bedfordshire), Bedford: Bedfordshire County Council and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments (England), 1979, illustration no. 10 on p.20 and p.23.)

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