Monument record WPT 018 - Pykes Mill

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Summary

`TL 976 622 Post Mill, demolished c. 1924

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 9764 6219 (50m by 50m)
Map sheet TL96SE
Civil Parish WOOLPIT, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

`TL 976 622 Post Mill, demolished c.1924.' (S1).
Pyke's Mill, post mill with roundhouse, dated 1644, demolished 1924 (S2). Mapped as post mill, between 1824 (Greenwood) and circa 1901 (OS 6")(S3). HER NGR and mapped location after OS, circular building shown on 1884 & 1904 25 inch maps where shown with rectangular buildings to N (as on present map?) as `corn mills'. Still named as mills on OS 1958 6 inch map.
Field 200m to south - Mount Hill - may relate to mill.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <S1> Bibliographic reference: Dolman, P. 1978. Windmills in Suffolk: a contemporary survey. 54.
  • <S2> (No record type): Flint B, Suffolk Windmills, 1979, 142.
  • <S3> (No record type): Dolman P, SCC (Architects Dept), Ms list, 1990.
  • <S4> Map: OS. OS Map. OS 6" 1891.
  • <S7> Digital archive: Historic England. National Record Of the Historic Environment.

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Protected Status/Designation

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Record last edited

Mar 31 2021 1:27PM

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