1830–1839
Burgh Mill mapped
The drainage windmill was marked as Burgh Mill on the 1830s Ordnance Survey map.
Site overview
Burgh Mill was a drainage windmill site near Burgh Castle. The mill is marked as Burgh Mill on the 1830s Ordnance Survey map, identifying it as part of the post-medieval and early nineteenth-century drainage landscape beside the lower Yare and Waveney marshes. The available heritage record identifies the site and its mapped presence, but does not provide a detailed machinery description, named millwright, working ownership, closure date or standing structural survival.
No surviving tower or windshaft has been positively identified in the researched records. The site is therefore best treated as a recorded drainage windmill location rather than a surviving complete mill. Its significance lies in the mapped evidence for a marshland windpump associated with Burgh Castle's low-lying drainage landscape.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Burgh Mill was a drainage windmill near Burgh Castle. The site is recorded as an early nineteenth-century drainage windmill and is marked as Burgh Mill on the 1830s Ordnance Survey map. Its position places it within the marshland drainage landscape associated with the lower river system around Burgh Castle, where wind-powered pumps were used to manage low-lying land.
The available record is sparse. It establishes the existence of the mill and its mapped name, but it does not identify a construction date beyond the early nineteenth-century context, a named builder, the form of the cap or sails, the type of pump, ownership history, or a final working date. No later surviving tower, machinery or windshaft has been positively identified in the researched sources.
The site is therefore a documented former drainage windmill location rather than an extant tower mill. Its history can be stated securely only from the mapped and heritage-record evidence: a drainage windmill stood here by the 1830s and was known as Burgh Mill.
Timeline
Sources and records
Norfolk Heritage Explorer: Site of an early 19th-century drainage windmill
Ordnance Survey map evidence, 1830s
Norfolk drainage windmill listing references
Ordnance Survey map evidence, 1830s
Norfolk drainage windmill listing references