title: Crowfield Windmill
text: # Crowfield Windmill
  
  Crowfield Windmill is a smock mill at Crowfield, Suffolk, England which has been conserved.
  
  ## History
  
  Crowfield Windmill was originally built as a drainage mill near Great Yarmouth. It was moved to Crowfield c1840 and converted to a corn mill. The mill worked by wind until 1916 when the cap was blown off. An auxiliary engine was used to power the millstones until the mid-1930s.
  
  ## Description
  
  Crowfield Windmill is a three-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base. It had four patent sails and the boat-shaped cap was winded by a fantail. It has two pairs of underdrift millstones which are mounted on a hurst frame.
  
  ## Millers
  
  * Gibbons - 1930s
  
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