Chesterton Windmill Photos
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A quick stop off at Chesterton Windmill to capture the cloud movement whilst the crop gives the leading lines!
I won't bore you with the details of why I was down here but it involved trading in a lens, multiple closures on the M6, an eight hour journey, an unplanned overnight stop, the hottest curry I've ever tasted, the satnav taking me in to Warwick Castle car park and me refusing to pay the £6 exit charge out of principal and having to wait an hour and a half to be let out, a lost pair of glasses in the field surrounding the windmill, finding a 55mm Sony lens cap and a 3k Gorillapod mini tripod complete with ballhead with the initials 'PS' stamped on one of the legs....oh and spending much of the journey on the Roman roads of Watling Street and The Fosse Way.
Bit of a long shot but if the Gorillapod is yours and you can tell me what colour paint has been applied to the initials then I'll gladly return it.
Anyway, missed the wheat by a couple of days but got treated to a wonderful warm Summer's sunset.
Another image of the fantastic mill at Chesterton, can be seen from the M40 as you are driving. The millstone can be seen in one of the arches, just.
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Jan and I spent a little time looking at this well-known landmark and this is a slightly different viewpoint from hers .
This Windmill is one of Warwickshire's famous landmarks.
It was built around 1632-33 by Sir Edward Peyto (Lord of Chesterton manor).
Built from local limestone it is supported by six semicircular arches on piers.
The mill has undergone 3 major reconstructions:-
1 in 1776 when the shaft was modified
1 in 1860 when the cap was altered
and 1 in 1969 when larger reconstruction works began under the control of Warwickshire County Council (W.C.C) which finished in 1971.
This mill is the oldest tower mill in England to retain any of its working parts.
The windmill is one of Warwickshire's most famous landmarks. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the village of Chesterton, near the Roman Fosse Way and about five miles (8 km) south-east of Warwick. It was built around 1632–1633, probably by Sir Edward Peyto, who was Lord of the Chesterton Manor House. At this time John Stone, a pupil of Inigo Jones, was in Chesterton designing the new Manor House and he probably helped with the windmill as well. Sir Edward was a mathematician and astrologer and probably his own architect for the windmill, but although claims have been made that the tower was originally built as an observatory, the estate accounts now at Warwick Record Office show that it has always been a windmill, making it the earliest tower mill in England to retain any of its working parts.
Information from Wikipedia.
A company by Dave Wall friend & fellow photographer (social Distancing 2m), Great few hour's spent.
Texture's & Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.
A trip out to Chesterton Windmill in the snow was rewarded with a beautiful sunset. However the picture that makes it is this one of the moon over the windmill sails.
A drone image of the Chesterton Windmill - with a tilt-shift effect - having a play; love the colours and seeing the folly from this elevated position
Met up with Phill a few hours before dawn and lit this fantastic structure sat in the middle of the Warwickshire countryside. Phill did virtually all the work with the drone lighting with me adding the orange glow with a diffused orange torch. A couple of hours later we made our way off to the Photography Show for the afternoon. Knackered!
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The windmill is one of Warwickshire's most famous landmarks. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the village of Chesterton, near the Roman Fosse Way and about five miles (8 km) south-east of Warwick. It was built around 1632–1633, probably by Sir Edward Peyto, who was Lord of the Chesterton Manor House. At this time John Stone, a pupil of Inigo Jones, was in Chesterton designing the new Manor House and he probably helped with the windmill as well. Sir Edward was a mathematician and astrologer and probably his own architect for the windmill, but although claims have been made that the tower was originally built as an observatory, the estate accounts now at Warwick Record Office show that it has always been a windmill, making it the earliest tower mill in England to retain any of its working parts.
Information by Wikipedia.
Artwork by William Walton & Topaz Studio 2.
One of Warwickshire's most famous landmarks. This 17th Century stone tower windmill with arched base stands on a hilltop overlooking the village of Chesterton, near the Roman Fosse Way.
By 1910 it had ceased to function as a mill because the winding gear failed to operate, so that her last miller, William Haynes, was no longer able to turn the mill's cap round to make the sails face the wind. He abandoned the mill and moved to Harbury tower mill, one mile to the east. In the 1930s the mill was sometimes used for milling at 'prosperous' winds. The mill was restored by Warwickshire County Council and reopened in 1971.
Info from Wikipedia.
This was my first visit to the windmill. When I arrived I saw the wheat field surrounding the mill on one side and I knew that I wanted to take a photograph with wheat ears in the foreground. I used focus stacking with Helicon Focus 7 to blend 5 images together. The sun was shining quite brightly behind the mill with some rather threatening dark clouds, and soon after we left the mill there was a very heavy rain shower!
Another image from our visit to Chetesterton Windmill over the weekend. This was taken early evening just after the Rain had stopped and the sky starting to develop into a nice orange glow as it approached sunset.