Tithe map 1838 - as redrawn by Harry Apling
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Diss
Heywood towermill |
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Diss Heywood towermill stood on the east side of Heywood Road, to the rear of the Mill House. |
James Long's Assignment Creditors of James Long late of Diss, Miller ... Deed of Assignment ... Norfolk Chronicle - 19th October 1816 |
Probably the most isolated example of them all stood in the Heywood, near what is now Holly Farm, and in a field behind the cottage formerly known as Mill House. On the 1830 parish map (Lyus, Burne and Lyus) it is marked as a tower-mill in the occupation of one Stimpson Ellis, while it also occurs on Bryant's Norfolk 1826. The tithe award of 1840 confirms it as a tower-mill, with yard, while the miller Stimpson Ellis occupied house, yards and premises at Holly Farm Corner. It apparently continued in the same family, since the last recorded owner was Mrs. Sarah Ellis in 1875. Some years ago the remains of the brickwork were cleared from the site, which is now very difficult to trace. Diss Antiquarian Society News Sheet - Spring 1973 |
It was run by the Ellis family of Holly Farm until about 1875, when Mr. John Brooke, whose father had the post-mill at Gissing, married into the family and moved into Holly Farm. He ran the mill for Mrs. Sarah Ellis for several years until it finished work, & continued to farm there afterwards. Diss Antiquarian Society News Sheet - Autumn 1973 |
Diss Parish Records POOR RATE 1836 Made 26 September at 1s. in the pound |
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| No. 643 No. 644 No. 645 |
Occupier Owner House & Lands 29a Heywood Assessed at Rate at 1s. Tithe Assessed at Rate Mill Assessed at |
Ellis Stimpson Himself £22. 10s. £1. 2. 6 £3. 10s. 3. 6 10s. 5s. Total £1. 11. - |
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Tithe map 1838 - as redrawn by Harry Apling |
Tithe Award 1837 |
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| No. 133b | Yard & Mill | Pasture | 0a. 1r. 0p. |
Part of £9. 14/- |
Diss Parish Records POOR RATE 1845 Made 10 May 1845 at 19d. in the pound |
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| No. 750 No. 751 |
Occupier Owner Land & Buildings, 21a. 2r. 26p. Gross Estimated Rental Rateable Value Rate at 1s. 7d. Occupier Owner House & Mill Rateable Value Rate at 1s. 7d. |
Stimpson Ellis Himself Haywood £45 £27 12s. 6 £2. 3. 9 Stimpson Ellis Himself £9. 10s. 15. 0½d. |
Diss Parish Records POOR RATE 1864 Made 24 November 1864 at 9d. in the pound |
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| No. 894 No. 895 No. 896 |
Occupier Owner House & Premises, 1a. 2r. 5p. Gross Estimated Rental Rental Value Rate at 9d. Land 29a. 3r. 21p. Gross extimated Rental Rateable Value Rate at 9d. in the pound Windmill & Yard 0a. 1r. 0p. Gross extimated Rental Rateable Value Rate at 9d. in the pound |
Stimpson Ellis Himself Heywood £9 £7 5. 3d. £32. 10s £31 £1. 3. 3d. £10 £5 3. 9d. |
Situations Vacant To Journeymen Millers Wanted immediately, a Married Man aged about 50 to manage a Small Mill (retail trade) & grist work Apply to Mr. Stimpson Elliss, Heywood, Diss Norfolk News - 6th June 1857 |
Situations Vacant To Millers Wanted immediately, a Man to Board & Lodge in the House, age 40 to 50. Little or no night work. Retail Flour & Grist work. Apply to Stimpson Ellis, Diss Heywood, Norfolk. Norfolk News - 18th March 1865 |
FARM, WINDMILL & LAND at DISS, Norfolk To be Sold by Auction By George Durrant at the Kings Head Inn, Diss, on Friday 29 September, 1876 at 4 for 5 o’c. Lot 1. A very desirable SMALL FARM … 28a.3r.38p. at Diss Heywood, well situate by the side of the road leading from Diss to Tibenham. Lot 2. A TOWER WINDMILL with the Going Gears & Machinery therein & Yard & Ground containing one rood adjoining Lot 1. Lot 3. A Piece of Arable LAND 2a.1r.22p. situate by the side of the said road opposite Lot. 1. The above are in the occupation of Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis & possession will be given at Old Michaelmas next. Further particulars of Messrs. Motson & Furness, Solrs. Long Stratton, Mr. G.F, Browne, Solr. Diss or of the Auctioneer, Redenhall Grange, Harleston. Norfolk Chronicle - 16th & 23rd September 1876 |
October 1816: James Long, miller, assigned his goods for the benefit of his creditors Bryant's map 1826: Windmill 1830: Stimpson Ellis, miller Greenwood's map 1834: Windmill White's 1836: Richard Stimson Poor Rate 1836: Stimpson Ellis, miller Tithe Award 1837: Stimpson Ellis, miller Tithe Award 1840: Holly Farm Corner, tower mill, house, yards and premises; Stimpson Ellis, miller & farmer White's 1845: Stimpson Ellis, miller Poor Rate 1845: Stimpson Ellis, miller
White's 1854: Stimpson Ellis, miller 1857: Stimpson Ellis, miller Poor Rate 1864: Stimpson Ellis, miller 1865: Stimpson Ellis, miller c.1875: Stimpson Ellis, miller, died 1876: Sarah Ellis, owner; Elizabeth Ellis, miller September 1876: Mill advertised for sale by auction c.1876: John Brooke, miller (also of Gissing postmill) - running mill on behalf of Sarah Ellis c.1880: Mill demolished 1971: Mrs. Florence Last, Hill House (name changed from Mill House) |
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