Toftwood Post Mill Toftwood · Norfolk · England

Toftwood Mill stood on Toftwood Common on the outskirts of Dereham. The mill was rebuilt at least once. The earliest known form had a two-storey roundhouse, four common sails, a tailpole with a wheel and a gable porch.

A later build carried four double-shuttered patent sails, each with eight bays of three shutters, and drove two pairs of French burr stones; it also had a fantail on a ladder. John Poulter took over the business from Old Lady Day 1778 and advertised corn grinding, flour dressing and meal sales. In 1781 he advertised Toftwood Mill to let, describing it as well situated and convenient.

In 1786 the mill was advertised for sale or letting as a substantial windmill called Toft Wood Mill, with a large roundhouse, two floors, two pairs of French stones, a flour mill and going gears, together with a dwelling house, stable, cow-house, garden, orchard and enclosed land near the road to Shipdham. The mill continued through the nineteenth century under successive millers, including the Norton, Tallent, Thompson and Smith families. By the late nineteenth century George Richard Smith was recorded as a miller using wind and steam.

The mill closed around 1914 when wartime restrictions came into operation. Around 1921 it was bought by H. C. Stammers & Co Ltd and around 1928 it was demolished. In 1970 parched grass still showed the foundations of the roundhouse and piers, while by the early 1980s the mill house was named The Old Mill and the mill site had been put down to lawn.