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Welcome to Willingham History
Local History
The bishop of Ely's manor had a windmill by 1251 to which all his tenants owed suit. It was being leased in 1335 and was under repair in 1436. It perhaps stood south-east of the village near Rampton Road on the site of a later mill in Mill Hill furlong, named in 1435 together with Mill Street, later Mill End way. A smock mill built there c. 1812 was disused by 1901, though its brick base survived in the 1970s. A second windmill was in existence by 1678 south of the village beside Long Lane, called Mill Road in the 20th century. A smock mill built on the site in 1828 worked until 1967 and survived disused and dilapidated in 1982. There were wind and steam mills at Mill House on the Long Stanton road by 1861. The windmill was dismantled c. 1958. Another windmill stood on Belsars way at a distance from the village but was disused by the 1830s.
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