Not a Post Mill!
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Not a Post Mill!
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 31 Aug 2016
I wondered why the developers of the nice houses around the mill had called their road "Post Mill Close" when this is clearly a tower/cap mill. It seems this 1854 mill was a replacement for an earlier post mill that was destroyed by fire. https://www.shirleywindmill.org.uk/
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Image Location
Latitude
51.368806
Longitude
-0.054998