Holland Windmill, Upholland
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Holland Windmill, Upholland
Image: © Gareth Hughes Taken: Unknown
An unusual cylindrical tower mill built in the 1750s on the ridge overlooking what is now Skelmersdale new town by the local engineer and inventor Richard Melling, as a test bed for various innovations he (or his employee, Edmund Lee, who held a related patent) had developed. It had eight sails and may have been the first windmill ever equipped with a fantail to turn the sails into the wind automatically. It was re-equipped a number of times before finally becoming derelict in the 1890s.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.545839
Longitude
-2.737635