Your bike and a windmill

[uphillstruggler]

As I stopped at the Mountnessing Windmill feed station on London-Southend this morning, it seemed like a good opportunity to update my windmill shot - this time with the X4 Argentin. Lovely day for it!

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Two absolute beauties there

 

[uphillstruggler]

It’s taken a while for me to put together the ride to the Ivinghoe Windmill, this was a wet and muddy ride along a decent portion of the grand union canal between Milton Keynes and close to Ivinghoe

There’s a few ramblers on the stairs for good measure

 

[Jenkins]

An updated photo of one from the first page and with a different bike - Thelnetham windmill in Norfolk today.

 

[Willd]

Napton on the Hill

 

[uphillstruggler]

Napton on the Hill

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Nice image, quite dramatic 👍

May have cycled past that before this thread, has another of my little faves in the nearby canal

May need to get back out that way myself

 

[siadwell]

There are 5 windmills within a few miles of where I live, so last year I stitched them together into a 44 mile ride.
#1 Outwood Mill - used to be open to the public but it's been on sale recently and I think its condition has deteriorated.

#2 Lowfield Heath - this has been moved from its original location which is now an industrial estate on the fringes of Gatwick.

#3 Reigate Heath - not a great photo in order to get the bike in it, but there is a chapel in the base and is thought to be the only windmill in the world which is a consecrated church.

#4 - Wray Common mill was for years in poor repair until it was converted into a private home and sails were fitted. However, I believe these were not good quality and have been removed. New sails have been procured but the Dutch millwright lined up to fit them is struggling to get a work visa!

#5 is my personal favourite - it's a small wind-powered sawmill in someone's back garden. Apparently, when the current owner of the house moved in, he found the mill as a pile of bits and has lovingly rebuilt it.

 

[uphillstruggler]

There are 5 windmills within a few miles of where I live, so last year I stitched them together into a 44 mile ride.
#1 Outwood Mill - used to be open to the public but it's been on sale recently and I think its condition has deteriorated.
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#2 Lowfield Heath - this has been moved from its original location which is now an industrial estate on the fringes of Gatwick.
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#3 Reigate Heath - not a great photo in order to get the bike in it, but there is a chapel in the base and is thought to be the only windmill in the world which is a consecrated church.
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#4 - Wray Common mill was for years in poor repair until it was converted into a private home and sails were fitted. However, I believe these were not good quality and have been removed. New sails have been procured but the Dutch millwright lined up to fit them is struggling to get a work visa!
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#5 is my personal favourite - it's a small wind-powered sawmill in someone's back garden. Apparently, when the current owner of the house moved in, he found the mill as a pile of bits and has lovingly rebuilt it.
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You’ve won today

 

[FrothNinja]

A green windmill, Shay Lane, near Haggate

 

[ianrauk]

 

[uphillstruggler]

Couldn’t get close enough to get the windmill in, shall have to go back

 

[FrothNinja]

A lazy windmill, Shay Lane, near Haggate

 

[ianrauk]

West Kingsdown nr Brands Hatch

 

[Dogtrousers]

You have to squint a bit to see this one. That's Chillenden Windill on the horizon. And my bike in front of it.

https://www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/history-and-heritage/kent-windmills/chillenden-mill

 

[gtmet]

Ashton Windmill.

 

[tyred]

I assume that this was once a windmill. No operational ones around here sadly.