Billingford Windmill

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Billingford Windmill is a grade II* listed brick tower mill at Billingford near Diss, Norfolk, England which has been preserved and restored to working order. As of June 2009, the mill is under repair, with new sails being made. ()

Built: 1859 (165 years ago)Coordinates: 52°21'44"N, 1°10'52"E

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Nearby attractions include: Bressingham Steam & Gardens, Eye Castle, 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Burston Strike School.

5.6 miW
Museum, Specialty museum, Garden
Bressingham Steam & Gardens, Diss
144 min walk • Bressingham Steam & Gardens is a steam museum and gardens located at Bressingham, west of Diss in Norfolk, England. The site has several narrow gauge rail lines and a number of types of steam engines and vehicles in its collection and is also the home of the national Dad's Army exhibition.
3.2 miSW
Forts and castles
Eye Castle
82 min walk • Eye Castle is a motte and bailey medieval castle with a prominent Victorian addition in the town of Eye, Suffolk. Built shortly after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the castle was sacked and largely destroyed in 1265.
2.1 miNE
Museum
100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Diss
55 min walk • The 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, located in the original control tower and other remaining buildings of the RAF Thorpe Abbotts airfield east of Diss in Norfolk is dedicated to the American soldiers and members of the US 8th Air Force who fought with the Allies in Norfolk in World War II.
3.4 miNW
Museum, History museum
Burston Strike School, Diss
87 min walk • The Burston Strike School was founded as a consequence of a school strike and became the centre of the longest running strike in British history, that lasted from 1914 to 1939 in the village of Burston in Norfolk, England.
3.5 miE
Forts and castles
Wingfield Castle
90 min walk • Wingfield Castle in the parish of Wingfield in Suffolk, England is a fortified manor house which was the ancestral home of the Wingfield family and their heirs, the de la Pole family, created Earls and Dukes of Suffolk. It is now a private house.
5.1 miSW
Church
St Mary's Church
130 min walk • St Mary's Church is a medieval church in Thornham Parva, Suffolk, England. Much of the fabric dates from the 12th century, and it is a Grade I listed building.
3.2 miS
Park
The Pennings
82 min walk • The Pennings is a 2.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Eye in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by Mid Suffolk District Council. This site on the east bank of the River Dove is managed as a hay meadow.
2.6 miN
Church
St George's Church
67 min walk • St George's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Shimpling, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.2 miW
52°22'38"N • 1°6'31"E
Diss Museum, Diss
83 min walk • Museum, Specialty museum
2.3 miNW
Church
St Andrew's Church
58 min walk • St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the civil parish of Scole, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
2.9 miS
Monastery
Eye Priory, Eye
75 min walk • Eye Priory was a Benedictine Priory dedicated to St Peter in the town of Eye in the English county of Suffolk. It was founded by Robert Malet c. 1080 and originally an Alien Priory dependent on Bernay Abbey in Normandy.