Starston Windpump

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name = Starston Wind Pump
category = Windmill


image_caption = Starston Wind Pump


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country = England
state = Norfolk
region = East of England
district = South Norfolk
municipality = Starston
location = 330 yards south west of the Church of St Margaret, Pulham Road, Starston
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material =Timber construction with a brick base
established =1850
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owner = Privately Owned
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map_caption =Starston Windpump within Norfolk
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footnotes =Map Ref: TM2384

Starston Wind Pump is situated west of the village of Starston in the English county of Norfolk. [ "OS Explorer Map 230” – Diss & Harleston. ISBN 9780319464038.] The Pump is 330 yards away from the parish church of Saint Margaret in Mill Field. The windpump is a Grade II listed structure.

History

This unusual windmill pump was built c.1850 and it was built to pump water from the nearby Beck to fill up massive water tanks, one on top of Starston Place house and one in the nearby farmyard of Home Farm. So efficient were the large canvas and wood sails of this little windmill, that although there was a stationary engine which could work the pumps, it was seldom used. However with the installation a piped supply of water to the village and district the use of the pump was discontinued. The tank on top of the house provided the main supply of water for this very large house. The Farmyard tank supplied the water for the 200 head of milking cows and fattening bullocks on the farm, and also for the large herd of pigs that were also kept at Home Farm. Another use for this water was to maintain the level of water in the horse pond from an overflow pipe from the main tank.

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