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Location: Banguid, Ilocos Norte
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I wish I can push the sea towards the ocean so I may be able to shoot the windmills in a much better perspective. The tide was high and the sun was in its harshest but I was thankful nonetheless that I had the opportunity to be there and shoot. Choice was to wait for the afternoon for the best position of the sun but it was not an option as we have to move on to another destination. Lunch.
The current building was built around 1800 and continued working as a flour mill until about 1875.[1] After falling into disuse the windmill and the land, on which it stands, was purchased by Birkenhead Corporation and restored from 1894.
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This post mill is located in Stevington, Bedfordshire. Eng. I was lucky to get there at the right time before the wheat was harvested...!!!
The 19 Windmills of Kinderdijk symbolise the way in which the Dutch have managed the water.
For centuries, built around 1740, they have kept the land dry, which had been ravaged by subsidence and floods: the Alblasserwaard, once a rough and wet peat bog, but eventually colonised and reclaimed by man.
Pastures with grazing cattle, pollard willows and windmills, elongated villages along dykes and rivers, historical farms and standard-tree orchards in full bloom: this is the typically agricultural landscape of ‘Alblasserwaard en Vijfheerenlanden’, the southern edge of the Groene Hart (Green Heart) of the Netherlands.
The Kinderdijk windmill area is situated in the Alblasserwaard between the rivers Lek and Merwede, about 22 km east of Rotterdam. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands.
In 1997, UNESCO inscribed the windmill area on the World Heritage list, a recognition of its unique character.
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De windmolens van Kinderdijk staan sinds 1997 op de Werelderfgoedlijst van UNESCO.
Nederland is beroemd om haar molens. Vandaag de dag zijn er nog steeds meer dan 1000 in ons land aanwezig. Nergens in de wereld vind je nog zoveel molens bij elkaar als in het dorpje Kinderdijk.
Zo rond 1740 zijn hier 19 stevige windmolens gebouwd die tot op heden goed zijn onderhouden en nog in bedrijf zijn. De 19 molens zijn verdeeld in een rij van acht molens aan de Nederwaard (dit zijn de ronde stenen molens), een rij van acht rietgedekte achtkanters aan de Overwaard, met daarnaast een wipmolen; de Blokweerse wipmolen die de polder Blokweer bemaalt en in de polder Nieuw-Lekkerland twee rietgedekte achtkantige molens.
Over de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de naam Kinderdijk doen verschillende verhalen de ronde. De oorspronkelijke naam van het dorp is "Elshout".
1. Het bekendste verhaal over het ontstaan van de naam Kinderdijk gaat terug naar 1421 tijdens de grote St. Elisabethsvloed. Toen de ergste storm geluwd was ging men de dijk op om te kijken, wat er te redden viel en zag men in de verte een wiegje aan komen drijven. Men had geen hoop, dat daarin nog iets levends zou zijn, maar toen het dichterbij kwam, zag men beweging. Nog dichterbij gekomen zag men, dat een kat het wiegje in evenwicht probeerde te houden door heen en weer te springen zodat er geen water in het wiegje kon komen. Toen het wiegje uiteindelijk vlak bij de dijk was, viste men het wiegje op en bleek er nog een baby in te liggen die, rustig en droog, sliep.
2. Een ander verhaal vertelt dat de naam Kinderdijk ontstaan is doordat de dijk die er door heen loopt met behulp van kinderarbeid tot stand is gekomen.
3. Weer een ander verhaal vertelt, dat er een zekere Jan in een groot huis nabij Kinderdijk (Elshout) woonde. Deze Jan had veel kinderen en werd daarom 'Jan der Kindere' genoemd. Later hebben de mensen het gebied, waar hij woonde, Kinderdijk genoemd.
4. Nog een andere verklaring is, dat de betrokken dijk laag was ten opzichte van omringende dijken. De dijk was dus een kleiner exemplaar, een kind dus. ______________________________________________________________________________________
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This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands. (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
This lovely old windmill at Bembridge, on the Isle of Wight, was built around 1700 and was fully functional until 1913, when its young millers were drafted to prepare for the coming Great War.
Once painted in watercolour by JMW Turner, and now owned and nurtured by the National Trust, most of the windmill's original machinery is intact. Visitors can climb to the top, see its internal workings close at hand, and follow the process of milling down its four floors.
Or just sit outside in the sunshine and enjoy the unique sight!
No flowers today, thought I would take a break from Nature for a moment and offer up my 4th shot in my Wilton Windmill mini series.
The Wilton Windmill is a five floor brick tower mill located on a chalk ridge between the villages of Wilton and Great Bedwyn in the southern English county of Wiltshire. It was built in 1821 because the construction of the Kennet and Avon Canal had included the canalisation of the River Bedwyn which had previously powered several water mills in the area.
The windmill was in use for a century, into the 1920s. In 1971 it was purchased by the Wiltshire County Council who leased it to the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust. The trust restored the mill to working condition, and by the end of the summer in 1976 the windmill was once again making flour.
This building replaced a wooden mill that was destroyed by fire in 1791 and was used to grind wheat until about 1875. It is believed that there has been a windmill on this site since 1596. Wikipedia.
This collection of 19 windmills is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located about 15 kilometers east of Rotterdam. The mills are located in a polder bounded by the rivers Lek and Noord in the Alblasserwaard and were built around 1740 to pump water out of the polder and create agricultural land. Many are still in use, although 2 huge diesel pumping stations pump out the water now. The site is a major tourist attraction and serves to demonstrate the Dutch skills in hydrology over the centuries.
Kinderdijk translates to Child's dike in Dutch, and refers to the finding of a newborn in a cradle with a cat on top floating in the water after a big storm in the 1700's. Both cat and baby were rescued. The English version of the story is known as "The Cat and the Cradle."