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Tower mill site recorded
The Burgh Castle site is recorded as the location of a former tower windmill.
Site overview
Burgh Castle tower mill is recorded in Norfolk windmill lists as a tower mill site near the Breydon Water and River Waveney landscape. The identified evidence for this exact record is limited, but it establishes the site as a windmill location rather than an active or restored structure. The available material does not provide a secure construction date, machinery inventory, ownership history, closure date, or later treatment for the tower.
The site should therefore be recorded cautiously as the former location of a tower windmill at Burgh Castle. No present working machinery or accessible preserved structure has been confirmed from the searched sources.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Burgh Castle tower mill is identified as a tower windmill site in the Burgh Castle area. The site lies within the broader windmill landscape around Breydon Water and the lower Waveney, where both corn-milling and drainage structures were historically present. The evidence located for this specific entry confirms the windmill classification and locality, but does not provide a detailed documentary history.
No secure construction date, named miller sequence, sale notice, machinery description, or final closure date has been identified in the searched material. The present record should therefore remain limited to the confirmed site identity and its character as a tower windmill site. It should not be described as a restored or substantially surviving mill unless further source evidence confirms that condition.
Timeline
Sources and records
WindmillWorld county list: Windmills of Norfolk
Norfolk Mills county windmills index
Norfolk Mills county windmills index