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Kinderdijk, Holland - 19 mills in working condition - a UNESCO World Heritage site
Made Explore June 11, 2016
Chesterton Windmill is a 17th-century cylindric stone tower windmill with an arched base, located outside the village of Chesterton, 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 and it is built of hard local limestone, with sandstone detailing, on a shallow platform of 71 feet 9 inches (21.87 m) in diameter. The mill tower with a cap height of 36 feet (11 m), unique worldwide in structure and mechanics, is supported on six semicircular arches, on piers, the outer faces of which are arcs of circles radiating from a common centre.
prepared for the storm that was predicted over Detmold (Westphalia, Germany) - just when we had arrived in the open air museum by horse drawn coach. So we could not see it in its full glory
A windy evening and a passing storm had the windmills working tonight. I shot this with the vintage Helios 4402 50mm lens.
Yes, people actually live in some of these historic windmills in Kinderdijk. Apparently, it's a sought-after privilege to live there, and the tenant must be trained and commit to keeping the sails moving a certain number of hours each day.
It was a gray, drizzly day when we visited Kinderdijk, but near the end of our tour a bit of blue sky peeked through the clouds.
I've been culling and re-editing images to submit to Adobe Stock, and this one made the cut!
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.
Built in the early 1700s, this is the sole remaining Windmill on the Isle of Wight.
22nd October 2017.