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Norfolk Windmills

Brograve drainage mill at Waxham is 1 mile north of Horsey Mere and is now a Grade II listed building. The mill had a Norfolk boat shaped cap with a petticoat and an 8 bladed fantail with a tailpole. Four patent sails powered an internal turbine to drain the Brograve levels into Waxham New Cut. The nearby Lambridge Mill also drains into the same Cut.

Stocks 1986

Fantail assembly 1986

1771: Mill built by Sir Berney Brograve, 1st Baronet (1726-1797)

c.1930: Mill ceased working

2006: Mill leaning to the west and derelict, used by cormorants as a lookout point and to dry their wings

2010: Bernard & Stuart Ellis, farmers and owners

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