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Papa Westray, Holland Farm, Windmill

Storehouse (19th Century), Windmill (19th Century)

Site Name Papa Westray, Holland Farm, Windmill

Classification Storehouse (19th Century), Windmill (19th Century)

Canmore ID 2869

Site Number HY45SE 27.03

NGR HY 49001 51291

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Papa Westray
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Archaeology Notes

HY45SE 27.03 48998 51290

Two unroofed buildings, one of which is circular and annotated Corn Mill, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Orkney and Shetland (Orkney) 1882, sheet lxxi) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 20 November 2000

Activities

Field Visit (June 1982)

Holland, Windmill HY 4899 5128 HY45SE

In an elevated field S of Holland is the circular stone base of a dismantled post-mill said to date from the early nineteenth century and to have been in use until c.1940. The ground corn was stored in the square building 30m to the E (on the OS 1: 10,000 map,

the identification of the mill has been misapplied to the store).

RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1982.

(Fenton 1978, 399; OR 826).

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