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Tower drainage mill recorded
A tower drainage mill is recorded at Barton Turf as a separate entry from Turf Fen Windpump and Barton Turf smock mill.
Site overview
Barton Turf is recorded in drainage-windmill lists as the location of a tower drainage mill in addition to the better-known Turf Fen Windpump and Barton Turf smock mill. The supplied coordinates fall within the Barton Turf and Barton Broad landscape. The available evidence for this exact tower-mill site is limited, but it identifies the record as a drainage windmill rather than a corn mill.
No secure construction date, machinery inventory, ownership sequence, final working date, or later structural treatment has been identified. The site should therefore be recorded cautiously as a former tower drainage-mill location in the Barton Turf marsh landscape, without assigning details from Turf Fen or the Barton Turf smock mill.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Barton Turf tower drainage mill is recorded as a separate tower mill entry in published lists of Norfolk drainage windmills. The site lay within the Barton Turf and Barton Broad marsh landscape, where drainage mills raised water from low-lying grazing marshes into dykes and rivers. This entry should be kept distinct from Turf Fen Windpump, which stands on the River Ant and has its own detailed history and Grade II* listing, and from Barton Turf smock drainage mill, also known as the Black Mill, which stood on Mill Dyke.
The evidence found for the present tower-mill site does not provide a construction date, named millwright, cap or sail description, windshaft detail, scoop-wheel arrangement, or final closure date. The record is therefore limited to the confirmed identification of a Barton Turf tower drainage-mill site. No surviving working machinery or restored visitor function has been confirmed for this exact record.
Timeline
Sources and records
List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
Norfolk Mills drainage windmills index
Norfolk Mills page: Barton Turf smock drainage windmill
Norfolk Mills drainage windmills index
Norfolk Mills page: Barton Turf smock drainage windmill