Drinkstone windmills, Woolpit

Name: Drinkstone windmills
Address: Woolpit, United Kingdom

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Drinkstone Windmills are a pair of windmills at Drinkstone, Suffolk, England. They consist a post mill and a smock mill. The post mill is Grade I listed and the smock mill is Grade II* listed. The mills were known as Clover's Mills as they were always worked by the Clover family. ()

Built: 1689 (335 years ago)Coordinates: 52°13'24"N, 0°52'29"E

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Woolpit United Kingdom

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Drinkstone windmills – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Church of St Peter and St Mary, Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket Golf Shop, Buxhall Windmill.

5.7 miSE
Church
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History museum, Museum, Science museum
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3.6 miSE
52°11'28"N • 0°56'28"E
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3.4 miSE
Windmill
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5.3 miSW
Park
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3.5 miSW
Park
Bradfield Woods
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5.7 miSE
Museum, Windmill
Eastbridge Windpump, Stowmarket
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3.4 miNW
Village
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4.8 miN
Park
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5.4 miNW
Village
Great Barton
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