List of drainage windmills in Norfolk explained

This is a list of drainage windmills in the current ceremonial county English county of Norfolk. Some of the windmills in this area receive maintenance from the Norfolk Windmills Trust.

Locations

A

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Acle	Charlie Water's Mill	Tower
Acle	Palmer's Mill	Hollow post			Dismantled 1976, rebuilt at Upton in 1978.
Acle		Trestle
Acle	Marsh Farm Mill	Tower		1890	1905 Norfolk Mills
Ashby	Clippesby Mill	Tower		1814

B

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Barton Turf	Turf Fen Windpump	Tower		c. 1875	Norfolk Mills
Barton Turf		Tower
Belaugh	Old Hall Mill	Tower
Belton	Black Mill	Tower		c. 1830
Buckenham	Buckenham Ferry Mill	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Burgh St Peter	Burgh Mill	Tower			1920 Norfolk Mills

C

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Calthorpe	Randall's Mill	Tower
Caister		Tower
Caister	West Caister	Hollow post
Catfield	Barton Broad	Tower
Catfield	Swim Coots Mill	Tower	1838	1838	Norfolk Mills
Chedgrave[1]	Six Mile House	Tower		1870s	Norfolk Mills
Chedgrave	Pettingell's Mill	Tower
Chedgrave	Upper Seven Mile House Mill	Tower
Claxton		Tower

D - F

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Dilham		Trestle
Eaton				1884	1930 Norfolk Mills
Fleggburgh	St Margaret's Mill	Tower		c. 1747	Norfolk Mills
Fritton	Caldecott Mill	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Fritton	Fritton Marshes	Tower
Fritton	St Olaves Mill Priory Mill	Trestle		1910	Norfolk Mills
Fritton	Fritton Marshes	Tower	1837	1837	Demolished 1895[2]
Fritton	Fritton Warren Mill	Trestle		c. 1910	Demolished c. 1948
Fritton	Bell Hill Mill	Tower	1783	1783	Demolished 1844
Fritton		Smock	1884	1884	Demolished 1898

G - H

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Great Yarmouth	Ashtree Farm[3]	Tower			Demolished by 1912
Great Yarmouth	Ashtree Farm Mill[4]	Tower		1912	Norfolk Mills
Great Yarmouth	Lockgate Mill	Tower		1877[5]	Norfolk Mills
Haddiscoe	Toft Monks Mill	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Halvergate	Six Mile House Mill Blake's Mill Perry's Mill	Tower			Tower restored 2021[6]
Halvergate	Key's Mill	Tower
Halvergate	Stone's Mill Kerry's Mill	Tower
Halvergate	Mutton's Mill	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Halvergate	High's Mill Gilbert's Mill Lubbock's Mill	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Halvergate	South Walsham Mill Howard's Mill	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Halvergate	Carter's Mill	Tower
Hardley	Hardley Marshes	Tower		1874	Norfolk Mills
Hellesdon	Marsh Mill	Smock		c. 1828	Blown down June 1842 Norfolk Mills
Hickling	Hickling Windmill Roland Green's Mill	Tower		c. 1860	Norfolk Mills
Hickling	Stubb Mill	Tower		c. 1800	Norfolk Mills
Hockwold	Lower Mill			1829	1838 Norfolk Mills
Hockwold	Upper Mill			1829	1838 Norfolk Mills
Hockwold	Redmoor Mill	Smock	1797 1824 1826	1797	1826 Norfolk Mills
Horning	Neave's Mill Kettle's Mill	Tower		1810[7]	Norfolk Mills
Horning	Hobb's Mill	Trestle		Late 19th century	Restored 1983 English Heritage Windmill World
Horning	Horning Ferry	Smock
Horsey	Black Mill[8]	Tower		Early 18th century	Demolished 1912
Horsey	Horsey Windpump	Tower		1912	Norfolk Mills
Hoveton	Dydall's Mill Miller's Mill	Tower

I - L

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Irstead		Hollow post
Langley	Langley Detached Mill	Tower
Limpenhoe	Limpenhoe Mill	Tower		1831	Norfolk Mills
Ludham	Boardman's Windmill	Trestle
Ludham	Clayrack Drainage Mill	Hollow post		1987
Ludham	Womack Water	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Ludham	North Mill, Ludham Bridge	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Ludham	South Mill, Ludham Bridge	Trestle			Standing 1930s
Ludham	South Mill, Ludham Bridge Beaumont's Mill	Tower			Demolished 1960s Norfolk Mills
Ludham	St Benet's Abbey Mill	Tower	1749 1765 1775 1797 1826	c. 1735	Norfolk Mills
Ludham	St Benet's Level Mill	Tower		c. 1775	Norfolk Mills
Ludham
Ludham	Ludham Staithe Horsefen Mill	Tower		c. 1800	Demolished 1950s-60s Norfolk Mills
Ludham		Tower			1939 Norfolk Mills

M

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Martham	Bracey's Mill	Tower		1908	Norfolk Mills
Mautby		Trestle		1783	1783 Norfolk mills
Mautby	Marsh Mill	Tower			Norfolk mills

N - O

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Nordelph	Well Creek Mill	Smock			Norfolk Mills
Nordelph	Upwell Fen Mill	Smock			Norfolk Mills
Nordelph	Popham's Eau Betty Mill	Smock			Demolished 1920s Norfolk Mills
Norton Subcourse	Norton Marshes	Tower		1863	Norfolk Mills
Norton Subcourse	Boyce's Mill	Tower		1861[9]
Oby	Oby Mill Wiseman's Mill'	Tower	1797	1753	Norfolk Mills

P - R

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Potter Heigham	High's Mill	Tower		c. 1875	Norfolk Mills
Potter Heigham	Heigham Holmes Mill Eelfleet Dyke Mill	Tower
Ranworth	Small Mill	Tower
Ranworth	Ranworth Marshes	Hollow post			Demolished 1980s, re-erected at Ludham (Clayrack), 1987
Reedham	Cadge's Mill Batchie's Mill Stimpson's Mill	Tower
Reedham	Polkey’s Mill South Mill	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Reedham	North Mill	Tower
Reedham	Reedham Ferry (north)	Tower		1840	Norfolk Mills
Reedham	Reedham Ferry (south)	Tower
Reedham		Tower	1797 1826 1834	1797	Demolished 1865 Norfolk Mills
Reedham	Berney Arms Mill High Mill	Tower		1865	Norfolk Mills
Reedham	Tuck's Mill	Tower
Repps	Repps Level	Tower
Repps	Pug Street Mill	Tower
Rockland Broad	Long's Corner	Trestle			Norfolk Mills
Runham	Five Mile House Mill	Tower		1849
Runham	Perry's Mill South Mill, Runham Swim	Tower
Runham	Child's Mill North Mill, Runham Swim	Tower

S

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Salters Lode		Smock			Norfolk Mills
Sea Palling	Lambridge Mill Lambrigg Mill
Sea Palling	Sea Palling Mill
Smallburgh	Wayford Bridge Mill Dilham Dyke Mill				1847 Norfolk Mills
Smallburgh	Moy's Mill	Tower		1900	1937 Norfolk Mills
Smallburgh	Wayland Bridge drainage mill	Hollow post[10]			Standing 1930s Norfolk Mills
Stalham	Hunsett Mill	Tower		1860	Norfolk Mills Hunsett Mill
Stalham		Tower
Starston	Starston Windpump	Hollow post		c. 1850
Stokesby	Commission Mill	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Stokesby	Old Hall Mill Dack's Mill	Tower			Norfolk Mills
Stokesby	Calthorpe's Mill	Tower
South Walsham	Debbage's Mill	Tower

T - W

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Thurne	Thurne Dyke Mill Morse's Mill	Tower		1820	Norfolk Mills
Tunstall	Stracey Arms Windpump	Tower		1820
Tunstall	Tunstall Dyke	Tower
Tunstall	Acle Mill	Smock
Tunstall	Old Hall Mill	Tower
Upton	Palmer's Mill	Hollow Post		1978
Upton	Black Mill	Tower		1800	Norfolk Mills
Upton	Tall Mill	Tower
Waxham	Brograve Mill	Tower		1771	Norfolk Mills
West Somerton	West Marsh Mill	Tower		1858
Wheatacre	Black Mill	Tower
Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen	Wiggenhall Mill	Smock

Maps

• 1749 Emanuel Bowen
• 1765 Corbridge
• 1775 Bowles
• 1783 Joseph Hodgkinson^[11]
• 1797 Faden
• 1826 Bryant
• 1834 Greenwood
• 1837 Ordnance Survey
• 1838 Ordnance Survey
• 1884 Ordnance Survey

Notes

Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.

Sources

Unless otherwise indicated, the source for all entries is Book: Smith, Arthur C. 1990. Drainage Windmills of the Norfolk Marshes. Stevenage Museum. Stevenage. 0-9515766-0-7. or the Norfolk Mills website per individual entries linked.

Notes and References

1. Now in Haddiscoe parish.
2. Book: Dolman, Peter. 1978. Windmills in Suffolk . Suffolk Mills Group. Ipswich. 0-9506447-0-6.
3. Book: Wailes, Rex. Rex Wailes . 1954. The English Windmill. 72, 78. Routledge & Kegan Paul. London.
4. The mill stands in a detached part of Acle parish. Listed under nearest place.
5. Norfolk Chronicle, 18 August 1877
6. Web site: Project through to National Construction Awards Final . Broads Authority . 24 August 2021 . 17 July 2024.
7. Norfolk County Record Office MC225/3
8. Book: Brown, R J. 1976. Windmills of England. 154. Robert Hale. London. 0-7091-5641-3.
9. Norfolk County Record Office BR136/1
10. Book: Thurston Hopkins, R. Robert Thurston Hopkins . 1932. Old Watermills and Windmills. 131. Phillip Allan & Co Ltd. London.
11. Map of Suffolk