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Burnham Overy Staithe Mill is a six-storey tower mill with an ogee cap with gallery. The cap is winded by a fantail and the four Double Patent sails of 12 bays [ 2 ] are carried on a cast-iron windshaft .
Burnham Overy lies between the larger village of Burnham Market, less than 1-mile (1.6 km) to the west, and Holkham, some 3 miles (4.8 km) to the east.The larger town of King’s Lynn is 20 miles (32 km) to the south-west (with the closest railway station), whilst the city of Norwich is 30 miles (48 km) to the south-east.
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A rare “stay at home” warning has been issued for parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland as a severe storm lashes the region, bringing dangerous 100mph (160 kmh) winds and unleashing travel ...
Burnham Overy Union Mills: Tower: 1826 1814: Norfolk Mills: Burnham Overy Staithe: Burnham Overy Staithe Mill: 1797 1797 1797 Norfolk Mills: Burnham Overy Staithe Burnham Overy Staithe Mill: Post: c. 1805 1892 Norfolk Mills: Burnham Overy Town: Burnham Overy Town Mill: 1797 1797 1811 Norfolk Mills: Burnham Thorpe: Burnham Thorpe Mill Post: 1813
William Love Porritt, the son-in-law of James Read then took the mills. The mills were offered for sale by auction at the Hoste Arms Inn, Burnham Market on 13 July 1870. They were then being let to Porritt at an annual rental of £225. In 1893, the windmill was dismantled and the watermill fitted out with roller milling machinery. [3]
Burnham Overy is still a single civil parish, but in modern times a distinction is often made between the two settlements of Burnham Overy Town (actually a small settlement adjacent to the parish church) and Burnham Overy Staithe (a rather larger settlement about a mile away and next to the creek-side harbour).
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