Westham Windpump
From Wikishire
| Westham Windpump | |
|
Sussex | |
|---|---|
 The Westham Windpump | |
| Type: | Windmill |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU87441285 |
| Location: | 50°54’29"N, 0°45’29"W |
| History | |
| Built Mid-19th century | |
| Windmill | |
| Hollow post mill | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Weald and Downland Living Museum |
The Westham Windpump stands today within the Weald and Downland Living Museum in Singleton in Sussex, having been re-erected there in 1975. It originally stood in Westham on Sussex's Pevensey Levels.
The structure is a windpump, in the form of a hollow post mill, driven by four boarded sails. It was built in the mid-19th century in Westham (TQ640043),[1] and is marked on an 1860 map.[2]
The windpump was re-erected at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in 1975.[3]
Outside links
- Windmill World page on Westham windpump
References
- ↑ Windpump from Pevensey: Weald and Downland Living Museum
- ↑ Sussex Mills Group: Correspondence
- ↑ "Windpump from Pevensey". Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. http://www.wealddown.co.uk/Magazine/Old%20Magazines/magazine-6-1975-autumn.htm.
