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#Redirect[[Weald and Downland Living Museum#Windpump]]
{{Infobox building
|name=Westham Windpump
|county=Sussex
|picture=Windpump from Pevensey - geograph.org.uk - 815288.jpg
|picture caption=The Westham Windpump
|os grid ref=SU87441285
|latitude=50.908
|longitude=-0.758
|built= Mid-19th century
|type=Windmill
|style=Hollow post mill
|ownership=Weald and Downland Living Museum
}}
The '''Westham Windpump''' stands today within the [[Weald and Downland Living Museum]] in [[Singleton, Sussex|Singleton]] in [[Sussex]], having been re-erected there in 1975. It originally stood in [[Westham]] on Sussex's [[Pevensey Levels]].


[[Category:Windmills in Sussex]]
The structure is a windpump, in the form of a hollow post mill, driven by four boarded sails.  It was built in the mid-19th century in Westham ({{map|TQ640043}}),<ref>[http://www.wealddown.co.uk/Buildings%20and%20Exhibits/wind-powered-pump-windpump.htm Windpump from Pevensey]: Weald and Downland Living Museum</ref> and is marked on an 1860 map.<ref>[http://www.sussexmillsgroup.org.uk/corres.htm Sussex Mills Group: Correspondence]</ref>
 
The windpump was re-erected at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in 1975.<ref name=windpump>{{cite web | url = http://www.wealddown.co.uk/Magazine/Old%20Magazines/magazine-6-1975-autumn.htm| publisher = Weald and Downland Open Air Museum| title = Windpump from Pevensey| access-date = 1 May 2008}}</ref>
 
==Outside links==
*[http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/1827.htm Windmill World] page on Westham windpump
 
==References==
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Latest revision as of 11:58, 26 March 2021

Westham Windpump

Sussex


The Westham Windpump
Type: Windmill
Location
Grid reference: SU87441285
Location: 50°54’29"N, -0°45’29"W
History
Built Mid-19th century
Windmill
Hollow post mill
Information
Owned by: Weald and Downland Living Museum

The Westham Windpump stands today within the Weald and Downland Living Museum in Singleton in Sussex, having been re-erected there in 1975. It originally stood in Westham on Sussex's Pevensey Levels.

The structure is a windpump, in the form of a hollow post mill, driven by four boarded sails. It was built in the mid-19th century in Westham (TQ640043),[1] and is marked on an 1860 map.[2]

The windpump was re-erected at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in 1975.[3]

Outside links

References