South Havera (aka. South Havra) windmill, Scotland 🌍

South Havera (aka. South Havra), Shetlands (#scot58)

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Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

horizontal mill

South Havera is not a large island, and although now uninhabited since 1923, was once home to 8 families, with up to 50 people. They needed a power source to grind corn, and the island does not have running streams to power a watermill, so a (horizontal) windmill was the solution adopted in the 1860s, but it wasn't very successful.

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