Swim Coots Mill, Catfield
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Swim Coots Mill is a tower mill
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 Catfield
Catfield
Catfield is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is south-east of Cromer, north-east of Norwich and north-east of London. The village lies south-south-east of the nearby town of Stalham. The nearest railway station is at Worstead for the Bittern Line which...

, Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, England
England
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 which has been conserved with some machinery remaining.

History

Swim Coots Mill was built in the early nineteenth century. It was marked on the 1838 Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...

map. The mill was working until at least the 1930s but was derelict by 1978. The mill has since been conserved, with the tower roofed over.

Description

Swim Coots mill is a two storey tower mill which formerly had a boat shaped cap winded by a fantail. It had four double Patent sails. The tower is 15 feet (4.57 m) diameter at the base and 19 feet (5.79 m) high to curb level. It drove a 5 in 2 in (1.57 m) diameter scoopwheel housed internally. The mill also drove a single pair of millstones.

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