
Fulbourn Windmill is a smock mill,
the Windmill overlooks the village of Fulbourn, four miles east of the City
of Cambridge in Eastern England.
The Mill was built in 1808 for John Chaplin, the local landowner and farmer.
His family owned the Mill for over a hundred years before selling it to C.
J. Mapey, who worked the Mill until 1937, when it was left to decay, after
the Mill had yet again been hit by lightning.
In the latter years it was worked from a standing engine, turning a pulley
on the outside of the Mill, underdriving one pair of stones.
By 1975 the Mill was in a very poor state (put cursor on photo
to see Mill before restoration) and local people formed the
Fulbourn Windmill Society to start a restoration programme. The working party
hope to get the Mill working for demonstration purposes.