Bourn windmill, Cambridgeshire

Bourn #2312

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open trestle post mill function:Corn mill - conserved

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opening times	charges	website	notes
9/5/26 14:00-16:30 10/5/26 11:00-16:30 21/6/26 14:00-16:30 19/7/26 14:00-16:30 23/8/26 14:00-16:30 13/9/26 14:00-16:30 Please verify before visiting		https://cambridgeppf.org/bourn-windmill/

Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 29 January 1819

To MILLERS and BAKERS.
TO be LET. a WIND-MILL, with a convenient HOUSE, large Oven and Bake-house, with a Stable, Barn, and Piggeries; all convenient and in good repair, situated at BOURN, in the county of Cambridge.
For particulars apply to Mr. LILLEY, of Bassingbourn, if by letter, post-paid.

Vintage Morris Minor at Bourn mill, 10th Aug 2001

Vintage Morris car at Bourn mill, 10th Aug 2001

Bourn, , 22/5/89
© Peter Hedges collection

Bourn, , 13/4/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2312 - Post mill, Bourn

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Muggeridge Collection photos

537424 - BOURN. Front. Cambs.
537425 - BOURN. side CAMBS.
537426 - BOURN. Side CAMBS.
537427 - BOURN. side. Cambs.
537428 - BOURN. Side. 3/4 REAR. Cambs.
537429 - BOURN. 3/4 FRONT. CAMBS.
537430 - BOURN. 3/4 FRONT. CAMBS.
537431 - BOURN. 3/4 REAR. CAMBS.
F183601 - Governors. Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F183602 - Brake Wheel And Brake Headstones. Quant And Stone Nut. Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F183603 - Brake Lever. Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F183604 - Tentering Gear. Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F183605 - Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F183606 - Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F183607 - Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F183608 - Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F183609 - Substructure. Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F183610 - Bourn. Cambs. 6 Jul 1969 (colour slide)
F186259 - Bourn. Cambridge. 24.7.34 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
F186260 - Bourn. Cambridge. 24.6.34 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
F186261 - Bourn. Cambridge. April 17. 1933 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
F186262 - Bourn. Cambridge. April 17. 1933 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)

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Listed Building, Grade I: BOURN MILL (listed 1962-08-31)

Heritage Lottery Fund - £38300 : 29 Nov 2001 : New Stocks and Sails, Bourn Mill, Cambridgeshire

Bourn, Bourne Mill c1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection

Bourn, Mill c1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection

Official website: Bourn
Photography guide at Photographers Resource: Bourn Mill (Pages dated 2008, so information may be out of date.)
BBC news item: Men's Shed group restore 1940s replica windmill 2025
BBC news item: Repaired 500-year-old windmill reopens to public (Bourn) 2023
BBC news item: Bourn Windmill: Historic mill's timber support successfully removed 2022
BBC news item: Bourn Mill: Volunteers hope ancient windmill can be saved 2021
BBC news item: Bourn Mill: One of oldest windmills at risk of collapse 2021
BBC news item: Bourn Mill: One bad storm 'could topple 400-year-old windmill' 2020
Science Museum collection: Model of Post Windmill. (Bourn)
Science Museum collection: Model of Bourn Windmill, Cambridgeshire, 1601-1625
Science Museum collection: British Railways poster original Bourn Mill
Art UK Cambridgeshire, Bourn Mill, the Oldest Dated Windmill in England
Spotlight on mills: Bourn
ITV News: Bourn

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Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman

post mill

Photos: (1) NMR (a-j) as preserved (k-l) as preserved, rear view (m) view of spout floor (n-o) windshaft, brakewheel and one pair of stones (p) brake lever and part of gearwheel (q-r) view of trestle (2) Wailes (ASBOWAW) (a) as preserved, mid-C20 (3) A C Smith (WIC) (a) as preserved, May 1975 (4) Hills (a) brakewheel, windshaft and stone nut (b) as preserved, January 1974 (5) CCL (a) w/o (6) Wailes (WIE) (a) preserved (7) Reynolds (a-b) w/o (c) view of trestle (d) brakewheel, stone nut, quant and one pair of stones (e) governor (8) Vince 1993 (a) as preserved (9) Gregory and Wright (a) as preserved (10) Coles Finch (a) as preserved (11) Vince 1968 (1st edition 1960s) (a) as preserved (12) Stevens (a) as preserved (13) Wailes (WIC) (a) preserved (14) Vince 1973 (a) as preserved (15) UOK (MC) (a-c) as preserved, April 1933 (d-e) as preserved, June 1934 (f-h) as preserved, August 1934

News item: Quarter size post mill generating electricity, based on Bourn mill (26/9/25 news from 2024-5)

News item: Men's Shed group restore 1940s replica of Bourn windmill (16/9/25 news from 3/6/2025)

News item: Noel Garner's painting of windmills (31/5/11)

News item: Bourn mill reopens after renovations (11/5/04)

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