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Silly me - after I uploaded the lighthouse for Lisa, I realised that she said windmill. Here is a windmill Lisa. It is situated near Palling in Norfolk.
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The Beemster is the first so-called polder in the Netherlands, land that was reclaimed from a lake, the water being extracted out of the lake by windmills. The Beemster Polder was dried during the period 1609 through 1612. Because of its historical relevance, and because the original structure of the area is still largely intact, the Beemster was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1999.
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I wish I can push the sea towards the ocean so I may be able to shoot the windmills in a much better perspective. The tide was high and the sun was in its harshest but I was thankful nonetheless that I had the opportunity to be there and shoot. Choice was to wait for the afternoon for the best position of the sun but it was not an option as we have to move on to another destination. Lunch.
The current building was built around 1800 and continued working as a flour mill until about 1875.[1] After falling into disuse the windmill and the land, on which it stands, was purchased by Birkenhead Corporation and restored from 1894.
Wirral
This post mill is located in Stevington, Bedfordshire. Eng. I was lucky to get there at the right time before the wheat was harvested...!!!
The 19 Windmills of Kinderdijk symbolise the way in which the Dutch have managed the water.
For centuries, built around 1740, they have kept the land dry, which had been ravaged by subsidence and floods: the Alblasserwaard, once a rough and wet peat bog, but eventually colonised and reclaimed by man.
Pastures with grazing cattle, pollard willows and windmills, elongated villages along dykes and rivers, historical farms and standard-tree orchards in full bloom: this is the typically agricultural landscape of ‘Alblasserwaard en Vijfheerenlanden’, the southern edge of the Groene Hart (Green Heart) of the Netherlands.
The Kinderdijk windmill area is situated in the Alblasserwaard between the rivers Lek and Merwede, about 22 km east of Rotterdam. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands.
In 1997, UNESCO inscribed the windmill area on the World Heritage list, a recognition of its unique character.
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De windmolens van Kinderdijk staan sinds 1997 op de Werelderfgoedlijst van UNESCO.
Nederland is beroemd om haar molens. Vandaag de dag zijn er nog steeds meer dan 1000 in ons land aanwezig. Nergens in de wereld vind je nog zoveel molens bij elkaar als in het dorpje Kinderdijk.
Zo rond 1740 zijn hier 19 stevige windmolens gebouwd die tot op heden goed zijn onderhouden en nog in bedrijf zijn. De 19 molens zijn verdeeld in een rij van acht molens aan de Nederwaard (dit zijn de ronde stenen molens), een rij van acht rietgedekte achtkanters aan de Overwaard, met daarnaast een wipmolen; de Blokweerse wipmolen die de polder Blokweer bemaalt en in de polder Nieuw-Lekkerland twee rietgedekte achtkantige molens.
Over de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de naam Kinderdijk doen verschillende verhalen de ronde. De oorspronkelijke naam van het dorp is "Elshout".
1. Het bekendste verhaal over het ontstaan van de naam Kinderdijk gaat terug naar 1421 tijdens de grote St. Elisabethsvloed. Toen de ergste storm geluwd was ging men de dijk op om te kijken, wat er te redden viel en zag men in de verte een wiegje aan komen drijven. Men had geen hoop, dat daarin nog iets levends zou zijn, maar toen het dichterbij kwam, zag men beweging. Nog dichterbij gekomen zag men, dat een kat het wiegje in evenwicht probeerde te houden door heen en weer te springen zodat er geen water in het wiegje kon komen. Toen het wiegje uiteindelijk vlak bij de dijk was, viste men het wiegje op en bleek er nog een baby in te liggen die, rustig en droog, sliep.
2. Een ander verhaal vertelt dat de naam Kinderdijk ontstaan is doordat de dijk die er door heen loopt met behulp van kinderarbeid tot stand is gekomen.
3. Weer een ander verhaal vertelt, dat er een zekere Jan in een groot huis nabij Kinderdijk (Elshout) woonde. Deze Jan had veel kinderen en werd daarom 'Jan der Kindere' genoemd. Later hebben de mensen het gebied, waar hij woonde, Kinderdijk genoemd.
4. Nog een andere verklaring is, dat de betrokken dijk laag was ten opzichte van omringende dijken. De dijk was dus een kleiner exemplaar, een kind dus. ______________________________________________________________________________________
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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.
This lovely old windmill at Bembridge, on the Isle of Wight, was built around 1700 and was fully functional until 1913, when its young millers were drafted to prepare for the coming Great War.
Once the subject of a watercolour by JMW Turner, and now owned and nurtured by the National Trust, most of the windmill's original machinery is intact. Visitors can climb to the top, see its internal workings close at hand, and follow the process of milling down its four floors.
Or just sit outside in the sunshine and enjoy the unique sight!
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I shot this picture off of I84 while travelling in Eastern Oregon. This is a welcome change from my recent barrage of waterfall images. Oh don’t worry, I will get right back to it!
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