Hickling Mill

{{Short description|Windmill in Hickling, Norfolk, England}}

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|name = Hickling Windmill

|image = Hickling Mill.jpg

|image_size = 250px

|caption = Hickling Mill

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|location_of_mill = {{gbmappingsmall|TG 4086 2300}}

|coordinates = {{coord|52|45|3|N|1|34|3|E|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}

|operator = Private

|built = 1818

|purpose = Corn mill

|type = Tower mill

|storeys = Eight storeys

|sail_number = Four sails

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|winding = Fantail

|fantail_blades = Eight blades

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|pairs_of_millstones= Three pairs

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Hickling Mill is a 19th-century grade II* listed windmill in Hickling Heath, Norfolk, England.{{NHLE|num = 1373693|desc= WINDMILL AT HICKLING HEATH TG 40862301 |access-date = 6 March 2015}}

It was built of tarred brick in 1818 to a design known as a tower mill, a tapering circular building 8 storeys high with brickwork {{convert|30|in|cm}} thick at the base. Each floor has 4 windows to the four cardinal points of the compass although many are blocked up on the inside, especially on the north face. It is topped by a weatherboarded boat-shaped cap with a petticoat and fan cradle.

The mill was used for grinding wheat for flour and by the 1860s also included a bakery. Production ceased in 1904, at which time the sails and fantail were removed.{{cite web|url= http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Windmills/hickling-towermill.html|title= Hickling Towermill|access-date= 6 March 2015}}

After several changes of ownership the mill in 1934 came into the ownership of the Forbes family, who carried out major cap renovation in 1989. Otherwise Hickling Mill is one of the few windmills in the country to have been preserved in a largely unrestored condition. It still contains almost a complete set of main machinery and many of the original timber fittings and three sets of millstones.{{cite web| url = http://www.bonwick.co.uk/Hickling.html| title=CAP ROOF REDECORATION at Hickling windmill, Norfolk|publisher= Bonwick|access-date= 6 March 2015}}