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A tall wooden windmill with a rounded cap and two large sails stands behind a low cottage where four people and a dog gather.

Fordham Road Windmill, Isleham, 1912

Fordham Windmill, Barrow Field, Fordham

History of Fordham windmill

A segment of an 1886 Ordnance Survey map showing the location of a windmill and surrounding field boundaries near a road.

Fordham windmill OS 1886

Arthur Houghton describes how he loved to go and inspect the mechanism of the Fordham windmill. In his time, 1912, the miller was Arthur Sore. The mill last worked about 1940 and the cottages were pulled down in 1963.

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