ENGLISH WINDMILLS
USE IN WAR TIME SUGGESTED. Mr De Bere's proposal to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food that "in view of the dangers of air bombardment disused windmills should be repaired and put into working order” is a reminder that scattered over England at the present time there arc still about 1.000 old windmills, the "Manchester Guardian” states. Essex probably has the largest number in any county. After Essex come Norfolk and Suffolk, then Kent and Sussex. the Fen country and, | South Lincolnshire. Cambridgeshire. . Huntingdon, and parts of Cheshire and Lancashire. Outwood. in Surrey, has oldest windmill in the country. It was built in 1665. and its builders, from the top storey, watched the Fire of London. When windmills were first introduced into England has never been definitely ascertained, but there is no evidence that they existed before the time of the Crusades. Doomesday Book mentions a large number of mills, but the earliest authentic reference to windmills in England is to be found in the "Chronicles of Jocelyn de Brakeload." which describes the building of one by Dean Herbert on his glebe lands at Bury St. Edmunds about 1191.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 9
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193ENGLISH WINDMILLS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 9
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