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From Wikipedia: Mykonos is an island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea. It's popularly known for its summer party atmosphere.
Visiting Halnaker Tower Windmill near Chichester, West Sussex, June 2008. Photograph by Justin Brice.
Chesterton Windmill is a 17th-century cylindric stone tower windmill with an arched base, located outside the village of Chesterton, Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building and a striking landmark in South-East Warwickshire.
The windmill is one of Warwickshire's most famous landmarks. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the village of Chesterton for nearly 350 years. It is 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 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.
(Historical Hundred) believed to be the oldest windmill in the British Isles, bearing the date 1627. It retired in 1902 after being damaged by a storm. Now looked after by the National Trust.
Het Gein is een riviertje van ongeveer 6 km lengte tussen Driemond en Abcoude. Het verbindt de Gaasp met de Angstel, en loopt ten westen van het Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal geheel binnen de grenzen van Abcoude, sinds 1 januari 2011 gemeente de Ronde Venen. Tot 1 augustus 1966 lag het oostelijk deel, voorbij de Velterslaan, echter in de voormalige gemeente Weesperkarspel. Het gedeelte binnen Abcoude tot de Angstel heet, omdat het daar erg smal is, het Nauwe Gein waar de Brug Nauwe Gein het Kerkplein met de Hoogstraat verbindt.
Langs beide oevers van het Gein loopt een weg, namelijk Gein-Noord en Gein-Zuid; beide hebben tweerichtingsverkeer. Ter hoogte van Abcoude is onder het Gein het Rien Nouwen Aquaduct gebouwd voor de spoorlijn Amsterdam-Utrecht, ter vervanging van de hefbrug. Daarnaast is een voetgangers- en fietsersbrug gebouwd genaamd "Jan Swinkelsbrug". Verder is er nog de Wilhelminabrug, een fiets- en voetgangersbruggetje nabij de Velterslaan die het Gein met de Kanaaldijk-West van het Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal verbindt.
Evenwijdig aan de Ruwelswal en de Hollandse Kade loopt een fietspad dat van het Gein-Noord langs de Gaasperzoom en de woonwijk Gaasperdam in Amsterdam-Zuidoost naar het recreatiegebied De Hoge Dijk tot de Abcouderstraatweg ter hoogte van het Abcoudermeer. Bij Driemond kruist de provincialeweg met een brug het Gein waar Gein en Gaasp samenkomen.
Het Gein loopt door de Stelling van Amsterdam en vormt daar een onderdeel van. Ook staan er de molens Oostzijdse Molen en Broekzijder Molen en verschillende monumentale boerderijen waaronder ook een kaasboerderij. Een aantal daarvan hebben toebehoord aan de Amsterdamse Adel.
De wijk Gein (de meest zuidoostelijke wijk van Amsterdam) en het metrostation Gein van de lijnen 50 en 54 zijn genoemd naar dit riviertje.
Rond 1905 wordt het riviertje en zijn omgeving regelmatig geschilderd door Piet Mondriaan.
Sarre Mill is a typical Kent Smock Mill, built in 1820 by the Canterbury millwright John Holman. The mill is equipped with a set of Derbyshire Peak stones and is now one of the few remaining commercially worked windmills in England, producing high quality stoneground flour in the best traditional way. Great for home made bread!
Visitors can tour the Mill to see how it works. There is also a shop and tea room open Thurs to Sunday.
This neat windmill is just south east of town. I thought it looked rather nice against the colored sky
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Öland is famous for its windmills which were built in the 19'th century. The landscape is very rocky, in consequence farming is mostly impossible. So Öland provided the mainland of sweden with the milling service. Later they also dragged stones for graves with their windmill power.
Bocking windmill which is Grade 1 listed was built around 1721 but moved to its current site in around 1830 as building development was shielding it from the wind. The windmill is an impressive site on the Braintree to Sudbury Road where its 60 feet sail span stands out against the horizon.Inside the mill still as has a lot of original equipment and some agricultural items of historic value. The friends of Bocking Windmill give it support and are committed to developing the site as a museum.
Many years ago in pre-Internet days a friend and I spent a week or two on the Greek Island of Patmos. Didn't take photos much in those days so when a documentary on Patmos turned up on TV I decided to take a few screen shots for old time sake of scenes I could remember.
A Quick shot up at Wilton Windmill, I intend to do a longer exposure in the future but this'll do for the moment.
A hopefully majestic looking shot of the back of the Jill windmill. As it wasn't a very windy day, Jill wasn't doing much.
Taken on the Hassocks to Lewes walk, from the Time Out Book of Country Walks
A windmill somewhere near Wanbi on the way from Loxton to Karoonda. A typical sight in the Australian bush, these windmills pump water up from natural underground streams and reservoirs to feed stock,a nd sometimes to provide domestic water.
This information was on a sign by the entrance:
This Windmill is over 600 feet above sea level and it was built around 1680. It was last used for milling barley, but ceased in 1919.
The four sails, 27 ft long and 5 ft wide had large canvas cloths which were unrolled accordingly to the strength of the wind.