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This message was updated on 1/3/2005 8:49:58 AM by RMMee

Mapperley Windmills
replied on: 1/3/2005 8:36:05 AM

Looking on the 1900 OS map, I can only find one, but that is due east of the parish church, two fields away from it. Presumably that isn't the one that is described above? It is labeled "Mapperley Windmiill (disused)."

I've scoured the maps, but the next nearest I can possibly find is at Millhouse, West Hallam.

That said, Ordnance Survey only showed what was there, so if the others had already gone, the map would have no reference to them.

I've also checked the 1835 Sanderson's map, which also only shows the one windmill. Interestingly, though, Mapperley itself is, in that map, labeled "Mapperley Township in Kirk Hallam Parish," which was news to me. Possibly if you were to include the whole of Kirk Hallam Parish you would get to four windmills (certainly you've got the Cat & Fiddle, which is still standing), though I can't see them. (That said, Sanderson's is much harder to read, and a lot less reliable over little things like windmills!)

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