Great Chishill windmill, Cambridgeshire 🌍

Great Chishill #2336

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open trestle post mill - restored 2019

Signboard says:

Cambridgeshire County Council
Chishill Windmill
This post mill is an interesting example of rural engineering and is scheduled as an historic monument.
Built in 1819 using timbers from an earlier mill of 1726 it was last worked in 1951.
Restoration was carried out in 1966 by R Thompson & Sons Millwrights of Alford, Lincs.
The mill is open to the general public from 1st April to 31st October and the key may be obtained from :- [REDACTED]

Great Chishill

Great Chishill, 8th May 2005

Mill ID 2336

Great Chishill, Cambridgeshire, 20/10/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection

Mill ID 2336

Great Chishill, Cambridgeshire, 20/10/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection

Mill ID 2336

Great Chishill, Cambridgeshire, 20/10/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection

Mill ID 2336

Great Chishill, Cambridgeshire, 1958
© T C Vickers collection

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2336

[English Heritage]

Great Chishill Mill - inside the buck [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill - inside the buck [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill - tentering mechanism [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill - tentering mechanism [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill - tentering mechanism [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill - inside the buck [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill - inside the buck [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill - inside the buck [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill - inside the buck [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill [2025-06-22]

Great Chishill Mill [2025-06-22]

Chishill Windmill [2019-05-14] - HD

Chishill Mill, under repair [2017-10-28] - HD

Chishill Mill [2016-08-29] - HD

Great Chishill windmill [2016-06-01] - HD

Chishill Windmill [2004-05-30] - HD

Going up the hill to Chishill Windmill [2013-12-02] - HD

Chishill Windmill and B1039 [2013-12-02] - HD

Great Chishill Windmill [2006-07-09] - HD

Great Chishill Windmill in the snow [2009-02-03] - HD

Chishill Windmill in winter fields [2010-01-04]

Chishill windmill [2009-07-20]

Chishill windmill [2006-09-09]

Jim Woodward-Nutt

Chishill Windmill [2005-09-04]

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[Listed Building]

Associated charity #1174572 - Great Chishill Windmill Trust CIO

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News item: Noel Garner's painting of windmills (31/5/11)

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The post mill at Great Chishill

Great Chishill Windmill, Barley Road, Great And Little Chishill, Great Chishill, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire

Sep 1947 - Photograph (Negative)

Little Chishill Mill

Barley Road, Great And Little Chishill, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, SG8 8SB

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