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Six Mile House mill built
The tower drainage windpump was built on Haddiscoe Island beside the River Yare.
Site overview
Six Mile House Drainage Mill stands on Haddiscoe Island beside the River Yare. It was also known as Chedgrave Detached Mill or Hewitt's Mill and originally lay in the parish of Chedgrave before boundary changes placed it in Haddiscoe. The tower was built as a marsh drainage windpump and is recorded among the Broads drainage mills.
The available specialist record identifies the mill, its alternative names, riverside location and later restored survival. Wider drainage-mill lists place Six Mile House among the Norfolk tower drainage mills and note its restoration in the twenty-first century. Detailed construction, machinery and operating chronology remain limited in the available sources, but the site is clearly evidenced as a surviving restored drainage-mill structure rather than a corn mill.
Map
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History
Six Mile House Drainage Mill stands on Haddiscoe Island beside the River Yare. It is also recorded as Chedgrave Detached Mill or Hewitt's Mill, reflecting its former parish association before boundary realignment placed the site in Haddiscoe. The mill was built as a tower drainage pump serving the marshland landscape of the lower Yare.
The researched sources identify its location, alternative names and present restored survival, but provide limited detail on its original builder, exact construction date, sail arrangement, pump type or named operators. It appears in drainage-windmill listings for Norfolk as Six Mile House Mill, and recent references note the restored condition of the tower. The site therefore represents one of the surviving Broadland drainage windmills rather than a milling site for grain.
The most secure account is that a tower windpump stood here to drain Haddiscoe Island marshes and now survives as a restored drainage-mill structure.
Timeline
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Marsh drainage use recorded
The mill worked as a wind-powered drainage pump on Haddiscoe Island.
2021
Restored tower recorded
The tower was recorded in restored condition in drainage-windmill listings.
Sources and records
Norfolk Mills: Haddiscoe Six Mile House drainage windmill
List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
Norfolk drainage windmill listing references
List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
Norfolk drainage windmill listing references