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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. The windshaft also carries a wooden clasp arm brake wheel. [3] It drove three pairs of millstones. [2]
Burnham Overy is a civil parish on the north coast of Norfolk, England. In modern times a distinction is often made between the two settlements of Burnham Overy Town , the original village adjacent to the medieval parish church and now reduced to a handful of houses, and Burnham Overy Staithe , a rather larger hamlet about 1-mile (1.6 km) away ...
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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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The mills were not sold. James Read took them, and worked them until his death in 1864. 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.
Breachwood Green Mill is a five-storey tower mill. The tower is 24 feet (7.32 m) outside diameter at the base with brickwork 2 feet (610 mm) thick.
Goldfield Mill was first mentioned in Pigot's Directory of 1839 when James Grover was the miller. The mill remained in the Grover family until 1880. In 1898, a 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) steam engine was installed as auxiliary power.