1794
Tibenham windmill recorded
A Tibenham post mill is listed with a first mention in 1794.
Site overview
The Tibenham entry is a documented windmill site rather than a fully described surviving industrial complex in the consulted sources. Norfolk Mills lists a Tibenham Mill Road post mill, and the wider county list records a Tibenham post mill shown on historic mapping in 1797, 1826 and 1834, with first mention in 1794 and disappearance around 1891. Norfolk Heritage Explorer also records a post-medieval windmill site in the Tibenham area, noting that a windmill was shown on the 1883 Ordnance Survey map and that later research identified a post mill at the site.
No detailed construction account, machinery inventory, operator chronology, or surviving tower description has been identified in the consulted sources. The available evidence therefore supports a cautious record of a historic windmill site associated with Tibenham, with its exact built form and later physical survival not fully established from the sources consulted here.
Map
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History
The consulted sources identify a historic windmill presence at Tibenham, but they provide only limited detail. Norfolk Mills includes Tibenham Mill Road post mill among Norfolk corn windmills. The county list of Norfolk windmills records a Tibenham post mill, shown on maps of 1797, 1826 and 1834, with a first mention in 1794 and a disappearance or last record around 1891.
Norfolk Heritage Explorer records a post-medieval windmill site in the area and notes that a windmill was shown on the 1883 Ordnance Survey map. It also records that further research identified a post mill at the site. The exact construction date, builder, ownership sequence, machinery, and final closure circumstances have not been identified in the consulted sources.
No sourced evidence has been found for a surviving tower structure at the coordinates supplied. The record is therefore limited to the documented presence of a post-medieval windmill site near Tibenham, supported by map evidence and local windmill gazetteer entries.
Timeline
1797–1834
Windmill shown on historic maps
The Tibenham post mill is recorded on historic mapping in 1797, 1826 and 1834.
1883
Windmill shown on Ordnance Survey map
Norfolk Heritage Explorer records a windmill at the site on the 1883 Ordnance Survey map.
1891
Windmill no longer recorded
The Tibenham post mill is listed as having disappeared or ceased to be recorded around 1891.
Sources and records
Norfolk Mills county windmills index
Norfolk Heritage Explorer record for post-medieval windmill site
Wikipedia list: List of windmills in Norfolk
Norfolk Heritage Explorer record for post-medieval windmill site
Wikipedia list: List of windmills in Norfolk