Sharnbrook windmill, Bedfordshire 🌍


Sharnbrook #1723

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NGR: SP998593
(52.22302,-0.5407)


Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

tower mill function:Corn mill - converted to observation tower

Sharnbrook, 14/10/2001

Entry in Mills Archive database - #1723 - Sharnbrook Windmill, Sharnbrook (has photos)

The mill was built in 1880 to replace a former mill. The sails were removed in 1920. In the 1960s it was converted into an ornamental clock.

Muggeridge Collection photos

Modern House and Converted Windmill in Sharnbrook [2015-04-05] - HD

PAUL FARMER

Sharnbrook Windmill [2006-02-11]

Colin Mitchell

(2) Geograph images are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence

Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman
tower mill
Photos: (1) Howes (a) derelict with cap and tailpole, 1937 (2) NMR (a-l) as Howes (3) A C Smith (WIB) (a) house converted tower with observatory on top, May 1971 (4) BM vol 3 p34 (a) interior view showing upright shaft and great spur wheel with parts of wallower and brakewheel visible (5) BM vol 18 p184 (a) derelict with 4 sails, cap and tailpole (6) UOK (MC) (a) derelict with cap and tailpole, July 1933 (b) derelict with cap and tailpole, August 1934 (c) winch on end of tailpole, August 1934

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for information on Sharnbrook Windmill, Sharnbrook
International Mill Database Entry
name Sharnbrook Windmill
id 10336
description Brick built tower mill, converted to a lookout tower
drive power recent none
drive power originally windmill
mill type tower mill
function type grain mill
condition type no technique
use today observation tower
map location 52.223040,-0.540720
country United Kingdom
state England
county Bedfordshire
municipality Bedford
city Sharnbrook
zip MK44 1PG
street High St
logo detail windmill_nophoto


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