Instow: Church Windmill
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Instow: Church Windmill
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 25 Aug 2007
The stump of a windmill tower 150 feet up by Instow Town and the church. It may have ceased work before the 19th century. There was a second windmill in the parish, disused in 1797, at SS 474298, near Instow Quay. It had worked as an auxiliary power source in conjunction with a nearby tide mill. [Source: Walter Minchinton, Windmills of Devon, University of Exeter, 1977]
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Image Location
Latitude
51.059092
Longitude
-4.168931