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Chesterton Windmill is a famous feature of the Warwickshire landscape and can be seen from several miles away.
It stands on a hilltop overlooking the Roman Fosse Way about five miles south-east of Warwick.
The mill was built in the years 1632-1633 and remained in use until about 1910 when its machinery ceased to work. It was restored from 1965- 1971 by Warwickshire County Council in collaboration with the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings and the Ministry of Public Building and Works.
Scouting for Full Moon Site - This is Gate 13 near Birds Landing. There is a nice curve in the maintenance road and you can get a good triangle with the front 3 windmills. The moon should rise near where the road meets the horizon.
Windmills near Altamont. Poor framing on my part, but I like the cow casually grazing in front of these giant rotating blades.
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The first of the windmills in the Rural Museum is probably the rarest in the town - a Plavia windmill manufactured by van Gelder of Sydney in the late 1920s. An interesting variation on the then-new Savonius design, this vertical axis windmill transmits the sails' motion into vertical oscillation for pumping through a simple bevel gear.
A sign reads:
Plavia Windmill
Origin & age unknown
Believed to be the only one in Australia
Donated by M.F.Neilsen
Chesterton, Warwickshire (September 08).
There is a lovely view from the windmill over the rolling countryside, which is especially nice at sunset.
One of Alberta's secret is that we do have a windmill museum. Who'da thunk it? It is located at Etzikom, a tiny community in Southern Alberta. Blink, and you miss it. However, they do have a very nice display of old wind mills on their grounds, those that meant saving labour on the farm. On the webside we read "Located on the Red Coat Trail, is the Etzikom Museum and the Canadian National Historic Windmill Centre. The Centre features outdoor restored examples of windmills encompassing over 200 years of Canadian wind power (particularly water pumpers)."