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Surviving mills

# photo id name location type condition maps
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#1031   Aldeburgh tower mill house converted in 1902
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#992   Bardwell tower mill restored and workable
3 #996   Barnham tower mill house converted
4 no
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#1003   Blundeston tower mill house converted, conical roof, no machinery
5 no
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#1016   Brome post mill remains now finally demolished
6 no
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#1019   Bungay tower mill house converted, truncated top storey
7 no
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#1021   Burgh Tower mill conserved tower with fine mock cap
8 no
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#1024   Buxhall Tower mill conserved, roofed, no original machinery
9 no
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#1025   Chilton Street Tower mill empty derelict tower
10 no
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#2462   Cockfield tower mill house converted
11 no
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#2563   Corton tower mill house converted
12 no
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#2270   Creeting St Mary Post mill Converted post mill buck
13 no
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#2504   Crowfield Smock mill conserved, conical roof, some machinery
14 #2439   Dalham smock mill restored 1970's, internally complete
15 no
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#2551   Darsham post mill roundhouse house converted - doubled height upon conversion
16 no
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#2510   Debenham tower mill truncated
17 no
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#2529   Dennington Post mill low walls of roundhouse form a garden feature
18 #2473   Drinkstone post mill being restored
19 no
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#2472   Drinkstone smock mill conserved
20 no
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#2522   Earl Soham post mill Multi storey roundhouse
21 no
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#1046 Ladbrook's Mill Elmsett post mill recently the remaining roundhouse was demolished, and a newly built house reusing some of the bricks was built on the same site, in the shape of a post mill
22 no
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#2440   Eriswell smock mill base
23 no
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#1027   Eye Post mill house converted 3 storey roundhouse
24 no
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#1053   Eye Post mill conserved walls of roundhouse with lozenge shaped piers
25 no
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#2531   Eyke Post mill derelict walls of ground floor of 2 storey roundhouse
26 no
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#1071   Felixstowe Smock mill conserved, roofed, no machinery
27 no
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#2528   Framlingham smock mill base house converted
28 #1073   Framsden post mill preserved, recently reroofed
29 #2549   Friston post mill conserved, with external steel framework for support
30 no
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#2437   Gazeley Tower mill house,converted - flat roof, with more recent large annular extension round lower part of tower
31 no
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#2546 Chillesford Lodge Gedgrave drainage tower mill ruined ground floor
32 no
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#2508   Gosbeck post mill roundhouse
33 no
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#2424   Great Thurlow smock mill conserved, with machinery
34 no
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#1068   Great Whelnetham tower mill derelict, but kept watertight
35 no
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#1074   Great Whelnetham Post mill remnants of brick piers
36 no
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#2521   Grundisburgh post mill roundhouse
37 no
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#1067   Hadleigh Smock mill fragment of base survives on end wall of mill house
38 no
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#2423   Haverhill Tower mill house converted ground floor of tower
39 #2557   Herringfleet smock mill drainage mill
40 no
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#2547   Holton post mill preserved, no machinery
41 no
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#2463   Honington post mill roundhouse house converted
42 no
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#1036 Harvey's Mill Kelsale post mill house converted roundhouse
43 no
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#1064   Kelsale Cum Carlton tower mill flat roof
44 no
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#2464   Lavenham tower mill 2 storey shell on mound
45 no
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#1035   Laxfield Smock mill conserved ground floor of all wooden smock mill with a few courses of brickwork at the base
46 no
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#2497   Little Stonham tower mill ruined
47 no
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#2426   Little Thurlow Smock mill house converted base with slanting flat roof
48 no
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#2255   Lound tower mill house converted
49 no
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#991   Metfield Post mill ruinous
50 no
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#1033   Metfield Tower mill ruinous
51 no
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#1049   Mildenhall smock mill base
52 no
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#1062   Minsmere base
(52.23861,1.62657)
53 no
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#2506   Occold smock mill unroofed short outline walls from bottom floor of 2 storey base
54 #2468   Pakenham tower mill complete and workable
55 no
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#2537   Peasenhall smock mill body conserved
56 no
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#2538   Peasenhall Post mill roundhouse
57 no
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#2476   Rattlesden tower mill conserved
58 no
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#2474   Rattlesden Smock mill 4 alternating sides of smock base incorporated into the square ground floor of house converted power mill
59 no
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#1002   Reydon Tower mill conserved - triple plunger pump
60 no
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#2466   Rougham post mill trestle
61 #2544   Saxmundham post mill roundhouse house converted
62 #1060   Saxtead Green post mill preserved
63 no
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#2460   Shimpling smock mill ruins
64 no
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#2540   Sibton post mill ruined roundhouse, no roof
65 no
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#1039   Snape post mill roundhouse, house converted 1930's
66 no
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#extra13   Southwold wind engine water tower that once supported a Titt engine
(52.32731,1.67050)
67 no
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#2534   St James South Elmham post mill roundhouse
68 no
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#2449   Stansfield tower mill conserved, roofed, some machinery
69 #1070 Upthorpe Road Stanton post mill under restoration
70 no
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#997 George Hill Mill Stanton post mill house converted
71 no
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#1075   Stoke by Nayland Post mill roundhouse used as store
72 no
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#2489 Eastbridge mill Stowmarket Smock mill Reconstructed in the Museum of East Anglian life, from remains recovered from its original site.
73 no
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#995   Stradbroke post mill roundhouse ruin
74 no
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#2539   Stratford St Andrew post mill roundhouse
75 no
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#1038   Sudbury Smock mill house converted 3 storey base
76 no
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#1032   Swefling post mill cross trees, part of post, 1 quarterbar
77 no
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#1037   Swefling post mill 3 brick piers
78 no
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#1050   Swefling post mill house converted
79 #2513   Swilland post mill roundhouse
80 no
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#2520   Syleham post mill roundhouse with high conical roof over complete post
81 no
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#2553   Theberton tower mill very truncated
82 #2484   Thelnetham tower mill restored
83 no
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#2503   Thorndon post mill 3 storey roundhouse, house converted
84 #1066   Thorpeness post mill adapted for pumping water up to the "House in the Clouds"
85 no
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#1044   Trimley St Martin Post mill house converted 2 storey roundhouse
86 no
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#2532   Ubbeston Post mill low walls of roundhouse as a garden feature
87 no
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#2561   Walberswick tower mill derelict windpump
88 no
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#2483   Walsham le Willows post mill roundhouse
89 no
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#1045   Wenhaston post mill roundhouse
90 no
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#1001   Wenhaston Post mill low walls of roundhouse form a garden feature
91 #1014   Wetheringsett post mill roundhouse
92 no
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#1051   Wickham Market smock mill house converted from ruins of 12 sided smock mill base
93 no
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#1018   Wickhambrook Post mill some remains of piers
94 #1023 Buttrums mill Woodbridge tower mill preserved
95 #1022   Woodbridge tower mill converted, some machinery retained
96 no
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#1057   Worlingworth post mill roundhouse
97 no
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#1056   Worlingworth post mill roundhouse foundations forming a garden feature - appears to have been destroyed c2010
98 no
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#2545   Yoxford Post mill roundhouse house converted

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
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#1065   Aldeburgh Post mill  
(52.15642,1.59497) (approximate location)
2 no
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    Glemsford
Details

Ipswich Journal, 14 January 1764

To be SOLD or LETT, at GLEMSPORD in the County of Suffolk.
An exceeding good WINDMILL, built about three Years; with two Pair of Stones, a Boulting-Mill, and Cloths, Scales & Weights, and every thing to the said Mill, as she is now going.
Also a House to lett, either for a large Family or a small one.
For further Particulars enquire of James Watson at Glemsford aforesaid.

3 no
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    Great Bricett smock mill
Details [info]
4 no
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#2425   Haverhill tower mill  
(52.08703,0.44187) (approximate location)
5 no
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    Lakenheath
Details [historical roundup] [info]
6 no
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#2509   Pettaugh Post mill  
(52.18692,1.15843) (approximate location)
7 #9678   Southwold salt works hollow post saltwater pump  
(52.32213,1.67592) (approximate location)
8 no
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#2495   Thornham Manga Post mill  
(52.29748,1.09295) (approximate location)
9 no
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    Tuddenham
Details [info]
10 no
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    Wangford  
11 no
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    Westleton
Details [info] [history]
12 no
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    Wickhambrook post mill
Details [info]
13 no
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#9706   Woodbridge Post mill  
(52.09459,1.31107) (approximate location)
14 no
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    Woolpit
Details

Ipswich Journal, 14 January 1792

WANTED immediately, A Journeyman Miller who is capable of the whole care of a windmill and can come well recommanded from his last place, may have constant employ. Enquire of James Dunn, Woolpit.


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