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Site overview

Norton Subcourse Boyce's Mill is recorded as a tower drainage mill in the lower Yare and Waveney marsh landscape. Drainage windmill lists identify it separately from Norton Marshes Mill and give 1861 as its first mention or construction date. The supplied coordinates fall within the Norton Subcourse area rather than Haddiscoe.

The evidence found for this exact site is limited, but it establishes the identity, mill type, and drainage function. No secure machinery inventory, detailed working chronology, final closure date, or later fabric description has been identified in the searched material. The site should therefore be recorded cautiously as a former tower drainage mill rather than as a confirmed restored or publicly accessible structure.

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History

Norton Subcourse Boyce's Mill is listed as a tower drainage windmill at Norton Subcourse. It is one of the drainage-mill sites recorded for the marshland landscape between the lower Yare and lower Waveney. The identified drainage-windmill list distinguishes Boyce's Mill from Norton Marshes Mill, with Norton Marshes first mentioned or built in 1863 and Boyce's Mill recorded in 1861.

The supplied coordinates place this entry within the Norton Subcourse locality, so the Haddiscoe town label is not the best evidenced location for this record. The available sources do not provide a full account of the mill's construction details, cap, sails, windshaft, scoop wheel, engine replacement, closure, or demolition. The confirmed record is therefore confined to its identity as a tower drainage windmill site, its Norton Subcourse location, and the 1861 date attached to Boyce's Mill in published drainage windmill listings.

Timeline

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Tower drainage mill identified

The site is identified as a tower drainage windmill in the Norton Subcourse marsh landscape.
1861

Boyce's Mill recorded

Boyce's Mill at Norton Subcourse is recorded as a tower drainage windmill with an 1861 date.

Sources and records

List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
Norfolk Mills drainage windmills index