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Kinderdijk windmills: unique & iconic water management
A significant part of Holland is situated up to approximately 7 meters below sea level. The Dutch don’t notice any of this though, because an incredibly innovative and intricate system keeps the ever-rising seawater from flooding the land. Even during spring tide, the Dutch are safely guarded from being washed away.
The most important aspect of UNESCO World Heritage Kinderdijk is undoubtedly the unique collection of 19 authentic windmills, which are considered a Dutch icon.
One from a cold and windy day in Norfolk back in April.
Cley Windmill is a grade II listed tower mill at Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, England which has been converted to residential accommodation and is now a rather nice B&B.
The windmill near Rolvenden is maintained as a memorial to a local resident killed in a road accident in 1955. The mill is believed to have been built c.1580.
"The complicated mechanism of harnessing the wind may have been introduced into Britain by the Crusaders, returning from the Holy Land from the twelfth century onwards. Medieval manuscripts, carved representations and stained glass reveal details of what these early, small mills looked like.
By 1400 there were some ten thousand windmills in England, mostly in the drier areas of Kent, East Anglia and Sussex, where wheat was widely grown.
When a mill was built, the landowner, usually the local lord of the manor, but sometimes a church or monastic holding, could have been issued with 'soke rights'. These ensured a monopoly of control over milling and its profits, as part of each manor's charter. Tenants were obliged to have their corn ground at the lord's mill and paid a proportion of their grain, often a sixteenth, as a charge." [Here's History Kent]
Former windmill. Now an exclusive private home in Sandhurst, Kent, UK, close to the border with East Sussex.
Stansted Windmill is a grade II* listed ancient monument given to the people of Stansted by Lord Blyth in 1934. A classic example of a tower mill, Stansted Windmill is close to unique in having most of its original machinery with few replaced components.
The famous windmills of Kinderdijk rise high above the polder landscape of Alblasserwaard, their mighty sails proudly facing the wind. Still, these historical giants are just a small part of an enormous joint venture of people, nature, and technology. A thousand years ago, this whole area was one big peat bog, trapped between raging rivers and the fury of the sea. Hunters and fishermen came here only in summer, if the water levels were low enough..
The windmill
Is a spinning wheel
A massive metal flower
Threading breezes
Through her petals
Whirling hour by hour
Dizzy dancing
Day and night
A turning churning tower
Whisking winds
from all directions
Spinning air to power.
The Iconic Whitburn Windmill situated on the Coast Road in Whitburn Sunderland. The earliest known records of a mill on this site date back to a 1779 coastal shipping survey, which shows a post mill in Whitburn. A post mill was the earliest form of windmill, in which all the grinding machinery and grain stores were supported by a central vertical post. The miller would have had to turn the whole mill around so that the sails faced into the wind.
Morgan Lewis Windmill that is having conservation work carried out and will be on show to the public soon.
Morgan Lewis is one of the only two intact and restored sugar mills in the Caribbean.
Love them or hate them they are here to stay. Personally I love them. Somewhere on the A30 in Cornwall.
Chesterton Windmill landscape with a tone mapped hdr effect created in photomatix software
3 bracketed images final edit done in LR6 and photoshop