Britain’s Oldest Working Brick Windmill Still Spinning After 250 Years–Grinding Grain Into Flour

Britain’s Oldest Working Brick Windmill Still Spinning After 250 Years–Grinding Grain Into Flour

Britain’s Oldest Working Brick Windmill Still Spinning After 250 Years–Grinding Grain Into Flour Holgate Windmill, the only remaining working 5-sailed, double-shuttered windmill in England – SWNS Britain’s oldest brick tower windmill which sits in the middle of a housing development is still operating, more than 250 years after it was first built. Located in Holgate, a suburb of York, the walled city in northeast England, the Holgate Windmill has been working since 1770 after being built by George Waud, from Selby, after he bought the land in North Yorkshire two years earlier. The mill, which grinds corn into flour, was built in the open countryside—one of many mills in the Yorkshire region—and overlooked the hamlet of Holgate. The 90-foot-tall mill now sits on a roundabout in the middle of a housing development built in the 1940s and 50s after World War II. It went unused for 90 years until 2001 when a preservation society was formed and successfully restored the mill to its former glory 1…