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Wind-powered drainage equipment recorded
The mill used four double-shuttered sails and a six-bladed fantail with a Norfolk boat-shaped cap and tailpole.
Site overview
Ingham Marsh Mill, also known as Randall's Mill, was built in the 1880s as a red-brick tower drainage pump for land at the south end of Hempstead Marshes. It stood beside a dyke reached by a short track just south of The Causeway, later renamed Palling Road. The mill had four double-shuttered sails and was turned to wind by a six-bladed fantail.
Its Norfolk boat-shaped cap had a petticoat and held a tailpole. The site was photographed around 1910 and is recorded as a surviving drainage-mill structure. The evidence establishes the mill's drainage function, late nineteenth-century construction, local alternative name, and principal wind-powered equipment.
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History
Ingham Marsh Mill stood beside a dyke south of the road formerly known as The Causeway, later Palling Road. The mill was also known as Randall's Mill. It was built in the 1880s as a red-brick tower drainage pump to drain land at the south end of Hempstead Marshes.
Wind power was supplied by four double-shuttered sails, and the cap was turned into the wind by a six-bladed fantail. The Norfolk boat-shaped cap had a petticoat and held a tailpole. The mill was photographed around 1910, showing its role within the marsh-drainage landscape of the north-east Norfolk Broads.
The identified evidence does not provide a final working date or a full later repair sequence, but it confirms the mill's construction period, drainage purpose, alternative name, wind gear, cap form, and setting beside the dyke. The site remains recorded as a tower drainage-mill survivor at Ingham.
Timeline
1880–1889
Drainage pump built
The red-brick tower drainage pump was built in the 1880s to drain land at the south end of Hempstead Marshes.
1910
Mill photographed
The drainage mill was photographed around 1910.
Sources and records
Norfolk Mills page: Ingham Marsh Mill drainage pump
List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
Norfolk Mills drainage windmills index
List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
Norfolk Mills drainage windmills index