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Tower corn mill recorded at Harpley
Harpley Tower Mill is recorded as a tower mill with a corn-milling function.
Site overview
The supplied coordinates identify Harpley Tower Mill, not a Docking windmill. Windmill World records the site as Harpley tower mill at the same latitude and longitude and identifies its function as a corn mill. The Geograph windmill index also records a converted windmill at Harpley, grid reference TF 799 253, matching the supplied coordinate position.
Available source coverage is limited, but it establishes the corrected locality, tower-mill form, corn-milling function and later conversion. No detailed construction date, miller chronology, sail or machinery description, closure date or conversion date has been identified in the consulted sources. The site should therefore be treated as Harpley Tower Mill rather than any of the separate Docking post-mill records.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Harpley Tower Mill is identified by the supplied coordinates at approximately TF 799 253. The original town value, Docking, conflicts with the coordinate evidence and with the windmill gazetteer entries, which place this tower mill at Harpley. Windmill World lists Harpley tower mill at latitude 52.79537 and longitude 0.66722 and records its function as a corn mill.
The Geograph windmill index records a converted windmill at Harpley at the same grid reference. The consulted sources do not provide a construction date, original ownership, miller sequence, cap type, sail arrangement, stone numbers, auxiliary power, working cessation date or full conversion history. The available evidence is therefore limited but consistent: the site is a tower corn mill at Harpley and has been converted.
It is distinct from the Docking post-mill records, which relate to other sites and do not match the supplied coordinates.
Timeline
2007
Converted windmill photographed
The Geograph index records a converted windmill at Harpley at grid reference TF 799 253.
Sources and records
Windmill World gazetteer entry: Harpley windmill
Geograph Norfolk windmills index
Mills Archive catalogue reference: Tower mill, Harpley
Geograph Norfolk windmills index
Mills Archive catalogue reference: Tower mill, Harpley