Stow Windmill Paston Norfolk
The mill was built between 1825 and 1827 and operated from 1828 until 1930, a working period of over 100 years. Then ‘out of work’, it was stripped of it’s interior machinery below the brake wheel and turned into a small home, but redeemed in 1960 when it was selected for preservation by Norfolk County Council. The tarred brick tower mill was built as a flour mill between 1825 and 1827 by James Gaze, and other buildings added after this. There had been another mill in Paston, a smock mill about one and three quarter miles to the south, in the occupation of Thomas Sadler, but this was not demolished until 1840, when its material and equipment were sold piecemeal by auction. It seems doubtful, therefore, whether any of these items were installed at Stow Mill but with the loss of the mill in Paston, it appears the local populace adopted the name of Paston Mill for Stow and it remained so for many years, and continues to be rumoured.
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Location: Norfolk.
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