Great Gransden windmill, Cambridgeshire 🌍

Great Gransden #2303

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NGR: TL277555
(52.18315,-0.1333)
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open trestle post mill function:Corn mill - renovated 2018

Opening times - WARNING : may not be up to date

opening times charges website notes 
10/5/26 11:00-15:00
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Vintage Morris Minor at Great Gransden mill, 10th August 2001
The Field magazine cover showing a field of poppies, with Great Gransden post mill in the background, issue July 1996
The Field magazine
Post mill, Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire, Oct 35
From a collection owned by Jan Smith
Mill ID 2303
Great Gransden, , 22/5/89
© Peter Hedges collection
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Great Gransden, , 13/4/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 13/4/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 17/8/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 17/8/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 17/8/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 20/10/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 20/10/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 20/10/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 20/10/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 20/10/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 28/7/81
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 28/7/81
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 28/7/81
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 28/7/81
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 28/7/81
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 28/7/81
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 25/4/82
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Great Gransden, , 17/7/83
© Trevor Stainwright collection
Mill ID 2303
Great Gransden, , 17/7/83
© Trevor Stainwright collection
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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2303 - Post mill, Great Gransden

Muggeridge Collection photos

Great Gransden Windmill [2025-06-22]

Chris Allen

Great Gransden Windmill [2025-06-22]

Chris Allen

Great Gransden mill, less the sails [2020-03-21] - HD

Adrian S Pye

Great Gransden mill, less the sails [2020-03-21] - HD

Adrian S Pye

Great Gransden: windmill restoration [2015-11-01] - HD

John Sutton

Great Gransden Mill [2002-09-29] - HD

Kim Fyson

Great Gransden Village sign [2014-01-02] - HD

Bikeboy

Great Gransden Mill [2007-06-03]

Jeff Tomlinson

Great Gransden Windmill [2006-10-24]

Richard Thomas

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Listed Building, Grade II*: POST MILL (listed 1983-11-18)

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Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman
post mill
Photos: (1) Stainwright (a) undergoing restoration (2) NMR (a-h) preserved (i) rear door, ladder and steps
News item: Star trails at Great Gransden (14/8/07)
News item: MG club at Great Gransden mill (9/2/05)

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Document: What do dendrochronology and other timber-dating methods tell us about the history of English post mills.pdf
for information on Post mill, Great Gransden
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Post Mill
Mill Road, Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, SG19 3AG
18 Mar 2005 - Photograph (Digital)
From the Images of England project
International Mill Database Entry
name Great Gransden post mill
id 48965
description 17th century open trestle post mill, which last worked in 1912; sails and most internal machinery in place
drive power recent windmill
drive type recent sails
mill type post mill
function type grain mill
condition type technique
map location 52.183135,-0.1334
country United Kingdom
state England
county Cambridgeshire
city Great Gransden
zip SG19 3AG
street Mill Rd
logo detail windmill
sails cloth; shuttered
luffing tailpole
picture 136948
photographer name Willem van Bergen
website https://windmill.gransdens.org/
shutdown 1912
picture name GB-GreatGransdenCambs_01_ID48965_WillemVanBergen_1977.JPG
picture url https://milldatabase.org/image/136948/download

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