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Shouldham
Mill Farm postmill |
Shouldham Mill Farm post windmill was also known as Fincham Mill and stood to the south of Shouldham and to the north of Fincham and was actually nearer to Fincham. The mill site was just to the south of the road from Marham to Shouldham Thorpe. In 1781 a baking office was being run on the site.
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Thos. Baxter of Shouldham in the County of Norfolk, Miller. On his Corn windmill, timber built & boarded & on the Mills therein together with the Running Tackle & other parts of the Machinery belonging thereto situate in Shouldham aforesaid, £120. On Utensils & Goods in Trade in ye same, £30. |
Thomas Baxter, miller of Shouldham and Mary Minick of Barton |
Notice to Creditors and Debtors |
To be Sold, and entered upon immediately, a WINDMILL, in exceeding good Repair, with a Meffuage and compleat Baking Office entirely new built, Freehold, fituate in the Parifh of Shouldham, near Fincham, in the County of Norfolk. |
Bowen's map 1749: Windmill 1780: Thomas Baxter, miller, assigned all his estate & effects to Bartholomew Ramsey for benefit of creditors |
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