Tower mill
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A tower mill is a type of vertical windmill consisting of a brick or stone tower, on which sits a wooden 'cap' or roof, which can rotate to bring the sails into the wind.
Haigh Windmill
Alford Windmill
Foulsham tower mill, five stories of brick, early 1800s. Burned 1912 and converted to private residence.
Dutch windmill Dutch: De Noord, Schiedam
Post mill
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The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single central vertical post. The vertical po
Tower mill
…or roof, which can rotate to bring the sails into the wind. This rotating cap on a firm masonry base gave tower mills great advantages over earlier post mills, as they could stand much higher, bear larger sails, and thus afford greater reach into the wind. Windmills in general had been known to civilization…
Brill windmill, a 17th-century post mill in Buckinghamshire
Chillenden post mill, built in 1868.
Chillenden open trestle post mill (another view).
Friston Post Mill, near Friston, Suffolk.