Smock mill by iaacf

Photography • Landscape • posted on Mar 26, 2009

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Description

The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides, on top of which is a roof or cap, which can rotate to bring the sails into the wind. This type of windmill got its name from its supposed resemblance to the smock worn by farmers in earlier days. Smock mills differ from tower mills in that the latter were usually cylindrical rather than hexagonal or octagonal, and built from brick, stone or masonry instead of timber. The majority of smock mills are octagonal in plan, with a lesser number hexagonal in plan, such as Killick's Mill, Meopham. A very small number of smock mills were decagonal on dodecagonal in plan, an example of the latter being at Wicken, Cambridgeshire. What I show you today is the Etten-Leur Bisschopsmolen.. lit.. the mill of the bishop.