Heckington Windmill

Windmill Heckington with eight wings

The windmill Heckington (English Heckington Windmill ) is a windmill based in Heckington, England. It is England's only remaining Turmgalerie Dutch windmill with eight patent wings. Because of its proximity to the station Heckington it is also known as Station Mill (English Station Mill ). Another name is Pocklingtonsche mill (English Pocklington 's Mill ) after its last owner, John Pocklington.

History

1830, the windmill of the gain Borougher millwright Edward Ingeldew for Michael Hare, the first miller and owner was built, but in 1834 he died. The mill was then led by the brothers Sleighton and Joseph Nash, who she held until its closure after severe storm damage in 1890. There is no indication whether the mill formerly Haremühle ( Hare 's Mill ) or Nash mill ( Nash 's Mill ) was called. 1891 acquired Müller John Pocklington, the mill ruins in Heckington, their cap with five times the wing cross, Windrose and parts of the upper mill mechanics ( cog wheel, Bevel with Obenbunkler ) had been completely destroyed by a rear storm. The five-time wing cross went wrong around here, since a lightning destroyed the wind rose and the cap by rotating uncontrollably. It broke away with the entire cap and parts of the wall border from the mill tower and crashed. John Pocklington already possessed the complete mill cap with eight times the wing cross, wing shaft and mill mechanics of the then 78 -year-old windmill in the millwright family Tuxford from the Boston Skirbeck quarter of 1813 (English Tuxford 's Windmill ), which he had bought there for £ 72. In comparison, a complete tower windmill cost around 1820 approx £ 1800 - £ 2000. Since he the complete mill mechanics had to remove from the plot of Tuxfordschen mill as a purchase condition and desperately needed a place for the purchased parts, the mill stump him came in handy. In the spring of 1892, the now 62 years old station mill in Heckington was after almost a year of construction time ( restoration of the damaged mill tower, installation of the cap along with wing shaft, wings, wind rose and mechanics) with the support of the local mill builder John Hodgson again wind and milling quality. Müller John Pocklington, an extremely busy man, the mill was extended to two additional Mahlgänge ( the 2nd and the lowest floor ) and a circular saw in a shed attached to the mill. He sold various types of flour, baked goods, baking goods and cattle feed besides Sägeaufträgen and led the large mill successfully until his death in 1941. According to him, the mill was called from that time until today also Pocklingtonsche mill (English Pocklington 's Mill ). The old name plate is still attached today.

1946 The milling the blind slats (English shutters in Lincolnshire shades called ) has been set, expanded, the expiration of the imposing building began. 1953 bought the county government of Kesteven ( " Kesteven County Council " ), the mill in order to preserve the unique structure before the final decay and obtain the landmark. Various restoration work ( only remaining millwright dynasty from the 19th century England 's) conducted by the millwright company Richard Thompson & Son of Alford, including first the installation of four wings of two disused windmills ( Old Bolingbroke and Wainfleet St. Mary ) from East Lindsey and a new Windrose. They had to be repaired in 1972 after lightning strike. In 1986, the mill as a result of local government reform in the possession of the county government of Lincolnshire ( " Lincolnshire County Council "). 192 new plates ( blinds, 24 per wing ) and four other wings besides control " of the mill Heckington friends" ( "Friends of Heckington Mill " ) were installed by the Friends, and milled again for the first time after 40 years. After a further renovation in 2004, the mill has since reopened in operation and sightseeing. Current Müller since 2004, Martin Hanson and George Pacey.

Description

The windmill Heckington was as fünfflüglige, slender conical brick tower windmill with six storeys ( " soil ": the entrance floor, flour ground, stone or gallery floor, lower grain floor, top grain ground or lifting soil (containing both the bag lift and pour the material to be ground grain), 'm ground floor, meal floor, stone floor, lower floor, upper floor am / hoist, floor dust floor) and Sutton Pat wings built (a kind of blind wing with wedge-shaped cross-section): eng - dust or Kappboden. . The outer wall was against the ingress of water a plaster with a sealed black bitumen layer - a particularly widespread in Lincolnshire construction. A white onion dome with Steertnachführung, reel and endless chain closed the mill. She had three Mahlgänge the 3rd floor and space for a fourth. After 60 years of work, the mill was in dire need of renovation. During this time a large compass rose instead of the cod-end was installed. After the storm damage that ruined the mill for the most part, received the ailing mill stump 1891-1892 after repair by its new owner John Pocklington and a local millwright, the snow-white onion dome (consisting of whitewashed, tarred canvas on wooden frame with tower ball ) with the eight blinds wings carrying cruciform ( Lincolnshire Cross by John Smeaton with eight rods ) and also eight-wing wind rose by more than 3.5 m diameter of the decommissioned 1813 for demonstration purposes of the mill peasant family Tuxford built Tuxfordschen windmill (English Tuxford 's Mill ) in Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire (not to be confused with the four-wing, named in Nottinghamshire after the market town of Tuxford Tuxford mill (English Tuxford mill ) ), plus an extended two more Mahlgänge grinder and a switchable circular saw in a separate building for the manufacture of coffin lids. The large internal transmission components (vertical shaft, cog wheel, Obenbunkler ) are made of steel or have steel teeth ( " combs ") instead of wood. Since the Tuxfordmühle for which the cap was originally constructed had another tower completion, there is a larger gap between the mill cap edge and tower exterior wall. Today, four Mahlgänge are operational. The saw is no longer available. A special feature of Dutch mills, this mill has a wingtips connecting circulating tensioned steel cable to prevent warping of the wings, unnecessary in circumstances when this type of wing construction project. The three Originalmahlgänge (two Sandsteinmahlgänge and a Quarzitmahlgang ) on the grinding base (3rd floor ) are in place and operational, to the fourth millstones on the 2nd floor. Due to the double sail area comparable vierflügliger mills Hecking toner windmill is capable, even at lower wind when other mills stand still, to drive their four Mahlgänge.

The windmill at Hecking toner station worldwide with eight blinds wings instead of four, the only remaining Dutch tower windmill of its kind, of which it originally gave to the Twelve in England, four of them in Lincolnshire ( Tuxfordsche mill ( Skirbeck, Boston), Windmill Holbeach (South Holland ), Windmill Market Rasen ( West Lindsey ), later the windmill Heckington (North Kesteven ) ). The highest of these eight-wing windmills was the Leachsche mill ( Leach 's Mill ) with nine storeys in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

Sail windmills with round rods and triangular sails as a yard-arm wings, as it is often found in the Mediterranean, have up to twelve / fourteen "wings", but are a different type windmill. Similarly, there are eight bladed paddle similar Kokerwindmühlen with short wings in Finland.

Mill data

• Cap Height: 23 m (75 ft)
• Overall Height: 30.48 m (100 ft)
• Tower height: 18.3 m (60 ft)
• Span of the mill wing: 21.4 m (70 ft)
• Weight of the eightfold Wing Cross: 5 t
• Base internal width: 8.5 m ( 28 ft )
• Mahlgänge: currently 4, max. 5