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Drainage tower recorded on Halvergate Marshes
Six Mile House Mill is recorded as a tower drainage mill, also known as Blake's Mill or Perry's Mill.
Site overview
Six Mile House Mill stands on the Halvergate Marshes at the supplied coordinates and is also recorded as Blake's Mill or Perry's Mill. It is a wind-powered tower drainage mill rather than a corn mill. Gazetteer and photographic sources place it at grid reference TG 461 098, matching the coordinate position.
The mill is recorded as a tower mill, and recent source summaries state that the tower was restored in 2021. Geograph photographs from 2011 show the mill before that restoration, while later listings identify it as a restored tower. The consulted sources do not provide a full construction date, detailed machinery sequence, keeper chronology, closure date or full engineering description, but they establish the site identity, drainage function, alternative names and survival.
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History
Six Mile House Mill is a Halvergate Marshes drainage mill recorded at grid reference TG 461 098, corresponding to the supplied latitude and longitude. It is also listed under the alternative names Blake's Mill and Perry's Mill. The mill belongs to the group of marshland wind pumps that drained low-lying grazing marsh by wind power.
It is identified as a tower mill rather than a post, smock or hollow-post pump. The Mills Archive records it as a wind-powered drainage mill in Norfolk, while Windmill World and the Geograph windmill index identify its location and name. A Geograph photograph taken in January 2011 records Six Mile House drainage mill at this position.
Later drainage-mill listings state that the tower was restored in 2021. The consulted sources do not provide a detailed construction date, original sail arrangement, scoop-wheel dimensions, full machinery inventory, working-life chronology, or closure sequence. The strongest evidenced record is therefore the mill's identity, its alternative names, its drainage function, its marshland setting, and its survival as a restored tower.
Timeline
2011
Mill photographed before restoration
A Geograph photograph recorded Six Mile House drainage mill at grid reference TG 461 098 in January 2011.
2021
Tower restored
Later drainage-mill listings record Six Mile House Mill as restored in 2021.
Sources and records
Mills Archive entry: Six Mile House Mill, Haddiscoe
Windmill World gazetteer entry: Halvergate tower mill
Geograph photograph: Six Mile House drainage mill
List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
Windmill World gazetteer entry: Halvergate tower mill
Geograph photograph: Six Mile House drainage mill
List of drainage windmills in Norfolk