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Wendling
towermill |
Wendling towermill stood at Mill Farm and was built to replace an earlier postmill. A bake office was also run on the site. |
The late Mr. John Masons's Freehold, Copyhold and Leasehold Estates at WENDLING and SCARNING with frontages to the Railway near the Station at Wendling which |
WENDLING & SCARNING Three miles from East Dereham |
WENDLING & SCARNING |
WENDLING |
WENDLING |
WENDLING |
In the late 1800s, Charles Horsley ran Hempton towermill along with Fakenham and Sculthorpe watermills. Charles Horsley also had a granary at Wendling on the site of the towermill that had ceased working and been demolished a few years before.. |
Horsley & Son, Millers and Merchants; |
The business controlled by Messrs. Horsley & Son, millers and merchants, is one of the most extensive and influential of its character in the county of Norfolk. It was founded many years ago, and has grown and prospered at a steady and substantial pace right from the start, a result which furnishes abundant testimony to the enterprise and ability displayed in its management. The mills are situated on the river side, a few minutes' walk from the Eastern and Midlands Station and Great Eastern Station, and are of a very extensive character. They are equipped in part with the best improved roller plant, the firm still retaining the advantages of the old-fashioned stones. The general arrangement of the mills is especially admirable and convenient, Messrs. Horsley having spared no expense to turn out the very best productions. They employ a large number of hands, and experience no difficulty in meeting all demands in the promptest style. The firm is also well known as general corn merchants, for the convenience of which business they utilise spacious granaries near the Great Eastern Station, besudes others at Wendling Station near Dereham. In leading commercial circles of the county Messrs. Horsley's name is held in high repute, and it can be safely predicted that so long as their business is conducted on the same able and enterprising lines as hitherto it will continue to prove prosperous and progressive. NIAS Norfolk Directory - 1890 |
Mr. Edward Brian Clifton-Sprigg and wife Rosemary have purchased Mill Farm property north of the old A47 and are restoring the house and buildings to modern standards. |
Sale by GEO. S. ANDREWS at King's Arms, Dereham, 12 August of Horsley's Granary etc. near Wendling Station. |
c.1853: Mill built to replace a postmill on the same site
White's 1883: Charles Horsley & Sons,millers & c. & Fakenham c.1885: Mill demolished
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