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Upton
towermill |
Upton towermill was built a tarred red brick mill and stood near the village green. Two pairs of patent sails powered two pairs of French burr stones, a flour mill and jumper. |
A few days ago, a lad about twelve years of age, at Upton, near Southwalsham, riding on an ass without a bridle, the ass went between the sails of a mill, which struck him on the head and fractured his skull; he languished a short time and died. Norfolk Chronicle - 5th July 1783 |
TO BE SOLD OR LET |
A CAPITAL TOWER WINDMILL, driving two pairs of French bur stones, flour mill jumper, and all requisite machinery, with four new patent sails. There is a first class business attached, with house, shedding, and garden. The premises are situate very conveniently for water carriage, and stand well for a good grist trade. Also an orchard with about 2¾ acres of ground, planted with different descriptions of fruit trees, and a splendid house and premises adapted for a clergyman or medical man. Can be let with or without the mill. – Apply to Adam Waters, butcher, Upton, near Acle, Norfolk; or to Azh. Waters, 3, Sefton-terrace, Southtown, next Great Yarmouth. Yarmouth Independent - 3rd January 1874 |
TO MILLERS AND OTHERS. UPTON, NEAR ACLE, NORFOLK. |
SAMUEL ALDRED will sell by auction, by direction of the respective Mortgagees under powers of sale, at the White-horse Hotel, Great Yarmouth, on WEDNESDAY, March 15th., 1876, at two for three oclock in the afternoon, Lot 1.- A valuable and substantially erected TOWER WINDMILL with garden, yard, orchard, and dwelling house (now converted into cottages) attached, situated at the corner of the High-road from Acle, in the parish of Upton, containing 3r. 13p., copyhold of the Manor of Upton. Fine certain. Lot 2.- A piece of arable and marsh LAND, with dwelling house (now or lately occupied as three tenements) and garden and outbuildings attached, abutting on the road leading from South Walsham, in the parish of Upton, the whole containing 4a. 1r. 12p., of which two rods are copyhold of the Manor of Upton. Fine certain. Lot 3- A piece of highly productive MARSH LAND, near Lot 2, abutting on the mill bank, in the parish of Upton, containing 3a. 3r. 35p., of which 3a. 2r. 0p. are copyhold of the Manor of Upton. Lot 4. – A slip of freehold LAND, called the Dole, containing 40 rods, abutting on the marsh bank, in the parish of Upton. All of the above property was recently in the occupation of Mr. Adam Waters, deceased. Particulars and conditions of sale of Messrs. Worship and Rising, the vendors’ solicitors; of Mr. S. B. Cory, solicitor; or the auctioneer, Great Yarmouth. Yarmouth Independent - 4th March 1876 |
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O.S. Map 1889 Image produced from the www.old-maps.co.uk service with permission of Landmark Information Group Ltd. and Ordnance Survey |
There are 2 cottages built from the brick known as "Thrift" cottages as they saved money by using recycled bricks and someone whose family lived in one, says the bricks were originally painted black. |
Kelly's 1854: Adam Waters, butcher, grocer & draper |
5th July 1783: A boy killed by being hit with the mill sails
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