Barnes windmill, London 🌍

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Blown over in the storm of 15th October, 1780.

The environs of London: being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital, Vol 1, Rev. Daniel Lysons, 1792

On the 15th of October 1780 there happened a most violent hurricane, the effects of which were principally felt in and near Roehampton, where its devastations were numerous and attended with very uncommon circumstances. ... The earth in many of the adjoining fields was torn up in such a manner that it had the appearance of having been lately ploughed. The workhouse upon Barnes Common received some injury, and the windmill was over-turned and beat in pieces. The progress of this hurricane is supposed to be about three miles in length, beginning at Lord Besborough's at Roehampton, and ending at Hammersmith, where the church received considerable damage; the greatest breadth was only 200 yards. Vast crouds of people came for several days to see the devastations which it had occasioned.

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