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'Notes Watermills'

Notebook measuring approx. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm and marked on the inside cover 'c.1972' containing a list of mills (one page per mill), at varying levels of detail (those with more content being listed at 'Place access points' below). The first half of the notebook is devoted to watermills but the second half features windmills (mostly smock and post mills). Notes on several of the windmills reference the work of JM Heathcote. Cross references to maps/page numbers of books occur throughout.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

Yaxley tower mill, Huntingdonshire

Black and white photograph of Yaxley tower mill, Huntingdonshire shown here with no sails.
"Fig (35). Yaxley, Hunts. (H E S Simmons photograph, 25 June 1932)".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

"Yaxley Stone Mill"

Cutting from an unknown source describing the fate of the millstones from the demolished Yaxley windmill. The article mentions that some went into the garden of Mr. G. S. Watson, while others went to Mr. T. Ellington. It also provides a brief history of the mill and its ownership from the inscriptions on the stones.