Halvergate
Lockgate
drainage mill
Acle Marshes


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8th August 1976
8th August 1976

Halvergate Lockgate drainage mill is also known as Freethorpe Mill and in the past as Banham's Black Mill or Duffel's Mill. The Grade ll listed mill is on the Halvergate Marshes and is actually in the parish of Freethorpe approximately two miles west of Gt. Yarmouth.


The mill used 4 patent sails that turned clockwise to drive a 19 ft. diameter scoop wheel with 7 inch paddles. The mill drained Acle Marshes that lay to the north of the mill.


November 2004
November 2004

Dan Banham - earliest recorded mill keeper

c.1922: Bob Banham

c.1923: Gordon Addison, Lockgate Farm

c.1945: Leonard Carter

1953: Sails blown off in a gale

1988: Protective aluminium cap fitted

2001: Majority of machinery destroyed by fire after being set alight by vandals

2008: Scoop wheel remains still adjacent to outside of mill



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