An historic painting of a former old boot-shaped four sail windmill in Lincolnshire, England, said to have been operated by a woman miller and claimed by some to have inspired the 'Old Woman who lived in a shoe' nursery rhyme that was first published in 1794. (Roud Folk Song Index 19132)

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