Saham Toney Tower Mill Saham Toney · Norfolk · England

Saham Toney towermill was built in 1826. Norfolk Mills records it as a six-storey brick mill, fifty feet high, with a Norfolk boat-shaped cap and gallery. The original datestone read J & S B 1826 and referred to John Bristow senior and his wife Sophia. The mill had patent double-shuttered sails and an 8 ft 6 in great spur wheel. It was a corn mill, and Windmill World records the site as Tower mill, Saham Toney.

The detailed nineteenth-century operator sequence was not identified in the consulted source excerpts, but Norfolk Heritage Explorer places the mill within a wider Saham Toney landscape in which several windmills are recorded. The same parish summary states that the tower mill is the one for which most information is available and records that it was built in 1826 before being rebuilt in 1960.

The twentieth-century rebuilding is central to the surviving structure. Norfolk Mills records a later datestone reading Rebuilt 1960 E.G. & M.E. Twining. The site therefore survives as a restored or rebuilt tower mill rather than as an unaltered nineteenth-century working structure. Norfolk Heritage Explorer records the tower mill under NHER 15264, and Windmill World identifies it as a surviving tower mill. The present character is that of a notable Saham Toney survivor whose fabric reflects both its 1826 origin and its 1960 rebuilding.