1901
Wind-engine recorded at North Via
Papa Westray, North Via, Wind-Engine was associated with an early twentieth-century wind-powered farm-machine record.
Site overview
Papa Westray, North Via, Wind-Engine was a wind-powered agricultural machine site. It was part of the group of Papa Westray wind engines used to drive farm machinery and is recorded as a windmill, engine and threshing-machine site.
Map
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History
Papa Westray, North Via, Wind-Engine was a former wind-powered farm-machine site at North Via on Papa Westray in Orkney. It is recorded as a windmill, engine and threshing-machine site and belonged to the group of small Orkney wind engines used for agricultural power. The site was associated with threshing-machine power rather than with a conventional tower mill.
The wind-engine is associated with an early twentieth-century record and is said to have survived in use or memory into the 1940s. No detailed maker, machinery description, ownership sequence, survival condition, or final operating date has been established.
Timeline
1940–1949
Wind-engine survived into the 1940s
North Via wind-engine is associated with survival into the 1940s.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Orkney Sites and Monuments Record; Scottish Windmills: A Survey; Orkney industrial heritage report