Great Bardfield windmill, Essex 🌍


Great Bardfield #2428

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Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

tower mill function:Corn mill - house converted

Great Bardfield, 1995
Great Bardfield, 1997
Great Bardfield in the snow, 30/12/2000
Essex Countryside magazine cover showing the converted Gibraltar Mill at Great Bardfield, issue January 1969
Essex Countryside
East Anglian Magazine cover showing Gibraltar Mill at Great Bardfield, issue Aug 1966
East Anglian Magazine
East Anglian Magazine cover showing Gibraltar Mill at Great Bardfield, issue Nov 1972
East Anglian Magazine

Entry in Mills Archive database - #2428 - Gibraltar Mill, Great Bardfield (has photos)

[English Heritage]

Muggeridge Collection photos

Great Bardfield Windmill [2017-08-26] - HD

Marathon

Great Bardfield Windmill [2017-08-26] - HD

Marathon

Gibraltar Mill [2017-04-04] - HD

Keith Evans

Gibraltar Mill, Great Bardfield (listed building) [2013-05-05] - HD

Roger Jones

Great Bardfield Windmill [2013-03-19]

Robin Webster

Windmill, Great Bardfield [2006-04-16]

Stephen McKay

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[Listed Building]

Essex Countryside references

Wikipedia entry

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Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman
tower mill
Photos: (1) Farries 3 (a) disused with sails, 1934 (2) D W Smith (a) w/o (3) Wailes (TEW) (a) w/o (4) Wailes (EW) (a) great spur wheel (5) NMR (WC) (a-c) derelict with 2 sails (6) NMR (a) derelict with 4 sails (b-c) ditto, August 1932 (d) ditto, Sept 1935 (e) ditto, n.d. (f) derelict with 2 sails (magazine cutting) (g) as house-converted in 1970s, with cap and sails restored (magazine cutting) (7) UOK (MC) (a) derelict with 4 sails, 1932 (b) ditto, August 1932 (c) ditto, Sept 1934 (d-e) ditto, May 1936 (f-h) ditto, March 1941 (i-j) ditto, May 1942 (k) detail of fan, May 1942 (8) ERO (a-g) disused with 4 sails (h) derelict with 2 sails, 1950 (i) w/o (9) Col.l (a-c) w/o (except for some missing shutters) (10) TC (a) w/o, 1919 (11) Wailes (ASBOWAW) (a) w/o, with two men working on sails (12) Hopkins (a) w/o (13) ECC (DEW) (a) as house-converted (14) Turpin (a-b) as house-converted (15) Vince 1977 (a) as house-converted (16) ERO (FC) (a-b) w/o (b) w/o: close-up of cap and fan (c) w/o, mid-distance (d) w/o, with some shutters missing, 1930 (e) w/o, 1924 (f-g) w/o with men attending to sails (h) w/o, apart from shutters in disarray; silhouette at night, c1936 (i) governor in Bardfield Cottage Museum, 1970 (j) as house-converted, March 1959 (k) close-up of cap, fan and derelict sails, 1936 (l) as house-converted (from property section of Country Life Supplement, 25th December 1980) (m) rear view of cap, fanstage and winding gear, May 1942 (n-o) disused with four sails (p-q) derelict with four sails (r) derelict with four sails, May 1942 (s) disused with four sails, 1935 (t) disused with four sails, September 1934 (u) disused with four sails, May 1936 (v) disused with four sails, 1936 (w) disused with four sails, c1938 (x) rear view of cap, fanstage, fan and winding gear (y) under repairs with sails off and man standing on scaffolding beside poll end (close-up view with nothing else of mill visible) (z) great spur wheel (aa) one pair of stones (ab) pulley (ac) governors and tentering gear (ad) new cap roof under construction (on ground?) with windshaft and brakewheel inside
News item: Windmill - Wind of the Spirit (instrumental music CD) (2/3/04)

Property details at Zoopla

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Gibraltar Mill
Mill Road, Great Bardfield, Braintree, Essex, CM7 4QG
27 Mar 2002 - Photograph (Digital)
From the Images of England project
International Mill Database Entry:
id 59589
name Gibraltar Mill
drive power recent windmill
drive type recent sails
mill type tower mill
function type grain mill
condition type no technique
use today private residence
map location 51.94966,0.443205
country United Kingdom
state England
county Essex
municipality Braintree
city Great Bardfield
zip CM7 4QG
street Mill Road
logo detail
sails shuttered


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