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Tower corn mill recorded at Hales
The Hales site is recorded as a tower mill with a corn-milling function.
Site overview
The supplied coordinates correspond to Hales Tower Mill rather than Haddiscoe. The consulted windmill gazetteer identifies the site as a tower mill at Hales, Norfolk, with the same latitude and longitude. Available online evidence for this particular mill is thin.
It records the site as a tower mill and identifies its function as a corn mill. No detailed development date, operator chronology, machinery description, working life, closure date, or later treatment has been identified in the consulted sources. The record is therefore limited to the positively evidenced identification, location and mill type.
The site should not be confused with the separate Haddiscoe drainage and corn-mill records on the marshes to the east, which have different grid references and coordinates.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
The coordinates supplied for this record resolve to Hales in south-east Norfolk, not to Haddiscoe. Windmill World lists a Hales tower mill at latitude 52.52052 and longitude 1.50898, matching the supplied coordinate position. The same gazetteer entry identifies the mill as a tower mill and gives its function as a corn mill, with an associated Mills Archive entry for Tower mill, Hales.
The consulted sources do not provide a construction date, the names of millers, a description of sails, stones, cap, gearing, or auxiliary power, nor do they identify a closure date or subsequent adaptation. Because the available evidence is limited to identification and function, the record is kept deliberately brief. The important correction is locational: this is not one of the Haddiscoe drainage mills or Haddiscoe corn-mill records, all of which are listed separately with different coordinates.
The best evidenced locality for the supplied point is Hales.
Timeline
Sources and records
Windmill World gazetteer entry: Hales Tower mill
Mills Archive catalogue reference: Tower mill, Hales
Geograph Norfolk windmills index
Mills Archive catalogue reference: Tower mill, Hales
Geograph Norfolk windmills index