Fort Green Mill, Aldeburgh
Encyclopedia
Fort Green Mill is a tower mill
at Aldeburgh
, Suffolk
, England
which has been converted to residential accommodation.
s. A photograph of the working mill (above) shows that the sails were double Patents carried on a cast iron windshaft and the fantail had six blades.
Tower mill
A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind....
at Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh is a coastal town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Located on the River Alde, the town is notable for its Blue Flag shingle beach and fisherman huts where freshly caught fish are sold daily, and the Aldeburgh Yacht Club...
, Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
which has been converted to residential accommodation.
Description
Fort Green Mill is a four storey tower mill. It had four Patent sails and the domed cap was winded by a fantail. It had two pairs of millstoneMillstone
Millstones or mill stones are used in windmills and watermills, including tide mills, for grinding wheat or other grains.The type of stone most suitable for making millstones is a siliceous rock called burrstone , an open-textured, porous but tough, fine-grained sandstone, or a silicified,...
s. A photograph of the working mill (above) shows that the sails were double Patents carried on a cast iron windshaft and the fantail had six blades.
External links
- Windmill World webpage on Fort Green Mill.