1901
Wind-engine recorded at Hookin
Papa Westray, Hookin, Wind-Engine was associated with an early twentieth-century wind-powered farm machine record.
Site overview
Papa Westray, Hookin, Wind-Engine was a wind-powered mechanical drive at Hookin. The site belonged to the wider group of Orkney wind-powered farm machines used before modern power supplies reached the island.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Papa Westray, Hookin, Wind-Engine was a former wind-powered engine site at Hookin on Papa Westray in Orkney. It was part of the island tradition of wind-powered farm machinery and appears to have been used as a mechanical drive rather than as a conventional tower corn windmill. The site should be distinguished from Hookin Mill, the roofless watermill structure nearby.
The wind-engine was known as an industrial wind-powered machine, but it could not be relocated during later late twentieth-century survey work. No detailed construction date, maker, machinery inventory, ownership sequence, or final operating date has been established.
Timeline
1998
Wind-engine not relocated
The Hookin wind-engine site could not be relocated during late twentieth-century survey work.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Orkney Sites and Monuments Record; RCAHMS inventory record; Scottish Windmills: A Survey; Orkney industrial heritage report