Westham Windpump

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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]

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