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Norfolk Windmills

Two postmills were working at Wereham in the 1249.

CAVENHAM MANOR
Jeffrey Fitz Piers ... held in the reign of King John ...
... in the 33rd of Henry III the prior had a charter for free warren by an old parchment roll sans date, it appears that he had ...
He also had 3 carucates of arable land, 10 of meadow in pure alms and freely the gift of the aforesaid Jeffrey with free tenants and villains etc. and there belonged to him 2 windmills, the moiety of a watermill also ...
Blomefield's History of Norfolk - Clackhouse Hundred

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