Burgh Windmill

Burgh Mill was built in 1842 by John Whitmore the Wickham Market millwright for Francis Buttrum. It replaced an earlier tower mill nearby. The mill worked by wind until 1922 and the machinery was dismantled in 1925 by millwright Amos Clarke. From July 1940 the mill became home to L.1 post of the Observer Corps after moving from their previous location. The high vantage point afforded by the mill enabled the Observers to plot and report the movement of aircraft in the area as part of a nationwide network of observation posts. Post L.1 operated as part of a "cluster" of three such posts L.2 being located at Woolverstone and L.3 at Felixstowe all reporting to 18 Group ROC in Colchester. The…

Burgh Mill is a seven-storey tower mill with an ogee cap which has a gallery. It had four Patent sails and was winded by a fantail. The tower is 23 ft diameter internally at ground floor level and 13 ft diameter internally at curb level. The height of the tower is 57 ft to the curb. the four pairs of millstones were on the third floor. Recently renovated in 2004, it was reroofed and the brickwork replaced using the original Suffolk white bricks.