| Hempstead with Eccles
postmill
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Hempstead had a postmill in the early 1300s and it could have survived for some considerable time if it was kept in good repair or rebuilt when necessary. |
This lordship of HEMPSTEDE ... Edward I ... Joihn Mansel died seized of a moiety August 6th in the 35th of the said King and Walter his brother inherieted it. About this time, a messuage was found to belong to it: 30 acres of it valued at 7s 6d, 3 of pasture at 12d, a windmill at 3s 4d ... Blomefield's History of Norfolk - Happing Hundred, 1306 |
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