Windmill, Enville Common

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Date:1979

Description:Built in about 1800-1801, this windmill stands at Philley Brook on Enville Common and worked until around 1870. It had four sails, a boat cap, a fantail and two pairs of stones. The cap survived until the early 1930s and some of the wooden machinery until the 1960s.

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Donor ref:C/P/65/5/1/15/53/1 (43/11298)

Source: Staffordshire Record Office

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