Metheringham Windmill
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| Metheringham Windmill | |
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 Disused windmill and Mill House at Metheringham | |
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| Origin | |
| Mill name | Metheringham Windmill |
| Mill location | Metheringham, Lincolnshire |
| Grid reference | TF 063 613 |
| Coordinates | 53°08′16″N 0°24′42″W / 53.1377°N 0.4116°W |
| Year built | 1867 |
| Information | |
| Type | Tower mill |
| Storeys | Six storeys |
| No. of sails | Six sails |
| Type of sails | Patent sails |
| Windshaft | Cast iron |
| No. of pairs of millstones | Four pairs |
Metheringham Windmill, locally known as The Old Meg Flour Mill, was a six-storeyed, six-sailed, and tarred slender Lincolnshire type windmill with the typical white ogee cap and fantail. The mill is derelict.
History
[edit]Metheringham Windmill was built in 1867 to be used to grind flour from grain.[1] Located on a paddock at the eponymous village in North Kesteven south of Lincoln, it is one of the many tall brick-tower mills of Lincolnshire with a stage, now disused.
The mill was equipped with a complete iron gear, six Sutton Patent sails, which drove her four pairs of millstones,[1] but was never prosperous.[citation needed] She later lost up to four of her sails, which were not replaced. The remaining sails were juggled around for balance. Having started with 6 sails, she later ran with four, then two, and finally with three,[2] finishing her sixty years of work around 1930. Until 1942, the mill could be viewed with its unique three sails design.[1]
In the following years the remaining sails went, and after 1961 cap and windshaft followed.[1] The tar coating is now wearing off the tower, giving a free view of the unusual banding in her brickwork of 205 courses.[citation needed] Remains of the iron stage can still be found on the mill on the second floor, but in a bad condition because of the damage done by sail crashes.[1]
There is no public right of access to the mill, so any remains of machinery inside the mill can't be examined.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Dolman 1986, p. 22.
- ^ Wailes 1954, p. 100.
- Sources
- Dolman, Peter (1986). Lincolnshire Windmills, a contemporary survey. Lincoln: Lincolnshire County Council, Department of Recreational Services - Museums. ISBN 0 86111 126 5.
- Wailes, Rex (1954). The Windmills of England. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.