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The windmill is one of Warwickshire's most famous landmarks, standing on a hilltop overlooking the village of Chesterton for nearly 350 years, near the Roman Fosse Way and about five miles (8 km) south-east of Warwick. It was built in 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 to 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.
A visit deep into the Isle of Anglesey to Melin Llynon Windmill.
You can go up to flights of steps inside. The ceiling are a bit low, and I sometimes hit my head going up, so preferred to be outside.
Melin Llynnon, or Llynnon Mill, is a gristmill located on the outskirts of the village of Llanddeusant on the island of Anglesey. It is the only surviving working windmill in Wales.
The mill was built for £529, 11s in 1775–1776, on land owned by the surgeon Herbert Jones. It is classified as a tower mill. The machinery is within a stone tower and the moving top, or cap cwch, turns so that the sails hwyliau catch the wind from any direction. The tower was 9.3 metres tall and with four floors. It was used to drive machines for grinding corn, oats and barley. The first miller, Thomas Jones (1756–1846), worked it until his death. The position of miller was passed down through the generations, eventually going to a cousin William Pritchard.
A storm in 1918 damaged the cap stopping it turning to face the wind. It still operated intermittently for the next six years when the wind was from the south-west. Eventually the mill closed and became increasingly dilapidated. It remained deserted and unused until the local council restored it between 1978 and 1986. It reopened in 1986 and now produces stoneground flour.
A Grade II* Listed Building
History
Late C18 windmill, built between August 1775 to March 1776 at a cost of £529.11s (£529.55). The mill formed one of the outlying properties of the Llynon estate, built for Herbert Jones by Andrew Williams. It was operated by another Jones family, the first miller Thomas Jones followed by his son, another Thomas; his sons chose not to run the mill and the operator in 1881 is recorded as being their cousin William Pritchard. In 1892 the mill was taken over by Robert Rowlands, one of the renowned family of Anglesey millers, who continued running the mill throughout the First World War. In 1918 a severe storm struck the cap so badly that it became permantly locked in one position; little grinding was then carried out as the sails could only be operated when the wind came from the SW. Despite Rowlands offer to pay towards the cost of repairing the mill, the owner refused to sanction the work and the mill's useful life came to an end.
In 1978 the owner of the mill, Thomas Rowlands, retired from farming and decided to sell the mill. It was purchased by Anglesey Borough Council who restored the mill to full working order. The restoration was carried out over several years and was finally completed late in 1983, the sails raised in August of that year. The total cost of the restoration was £120,000 and on May 11th 1984 Melin Llynon was officially opened by the Mayor of Anglesey, Councillor T D Roberts.
Exterior
Complete 3 storey windmill tower, built of rubble masonry, rendered. Opposing doorways and single window to each storey facing NW; boarded doors and small paned lights, openings within cambered heads, slate sills. Since restoration the windmill has been in full working order, with timber cap and 4 sails.
Interior
The completely restored interior is in full working order and includes some pieces of the original machinery. There are 3 pairs of stones, 2 of which are dressed and used for grinding, the third is open and on display to the public.
Reasons for Listing
Listed as a complete and well-preserved windmill tower, which, since restoration is the only working windmill on the island out of over 40 which were in operation in the mid C19.
border colour looks wrong now its on flickr...never know why stuff can look different here to in my edits - corel X4...now happenedf for 2nd time !! replaced, and now looks too yellow here, perfect in other programs...flickr has a saturation increase???
Visiting Halnaker Tower Windmill near Chichester, West Sussex, June 2008. Photograph by Justin Brice.
What is the Netherlands without the windmills. Another piece of great dutch engineering. These windmills were built in the good old days (before electric pumps were invented) to pump water out from the canals and into the rivers to prevent flooding because most of their land were below sea level (still is).
Don't let the warm light fool you. I visited Kinderdijk, where they preserve a number of these old windmills for tourists, in winter and it was frrreeezing cold when I took this picture.
I purposely turn up the "warmth" colour during post-processing to match the golden brown colour of the weeds in the foreground.
Windmills in Kinderdijk, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Taken with D70 and AF f/3.5 18-70mm lens
Notice that this photos were made with mobile phone while driving @ 90km/h handheld. Therefor are lacking of visual & image adjustments and also easy blured. However...(insert comment here - make it funny) :)
The windmill on Lytham Green is a prominant landmark and is used as a symbol for this part of the Fylde coast. It was restored in 1989 after standing derelict for many years.
Passed by a windmill today, took a closer look, and thanks to a Cokin ND-4, i was able to make a semilong exposure to give it a bit of light ... fantastic to get so close to one of those modern giants
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Double Windmill Quilt
Designed and folded by Marcela Brina
More details in: www.artisbellus.com/2011/08/origami-quilts-double-windmil...