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Photograph © Rodney Burton, under this
Creative Commons Licence
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Stevens Windmill, Burwell
Location
Grid reference: TL 590 664
OS sheet: 154
Postcode: CB25 0HD
About 10 miles north east of Cambridge, off B1102 in Burwell village. Follow signs for Burwell Museum.
Parking in Gardner Memorial Hall car park in High Street.
A tarred brick and clunch (a local hard chalk like stone) tower mill built in 1820 and working until around 1955.
Grade II* Listed building. Now partly restored with a single pair of sails. About to undergo a major and full restoration (subject to availability
of funding) at an estimated cost of at least £200,000. Has an ogee cap and all its internal machinery.
Burwell Museum of Fen-edge Village Life adjoining.
Opening times
The mill interior is closed for 2012 due to restoration work, although it may be viewed externally at any time.
National Mills Weekend opening times
Interior closed due to restoration work.Exterior can be viewed at any time.
Contact
Paul Hawes, tel. 01638 742847 (home), or John Wisbey, tel. 01638 741689 (home),
or leave a message on the museum answering machine, tel. 01638 605544 .
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