Wilton Windmill

Wilton Windmill

An old flour mill near Marlborough, Wiltshire, which fell into dereliction and was rescued by the Wiltshire County Council who bought it and worked with the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust in the 1970s. Although you can visit it anytime, conducted tours inside the mill, refreshments, and other facilities, are available on Sundays and bank holidays and chiefly during the warmer months of the yea…  (read more)

27 Oct 2018

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Wilton Windmill

If you want to visit the windmill - and on Sunday afternoons during summer you can go inside and look round - keep in mind that it is at Wilton near Marlborough, not Wilton near Salisbury.

04 Sep 2011

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Wilton Windmill, Wiltshire

Nikon D90 + Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 G lens.

07 Oct 2016

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Wilton Windmill

This Wilton is not the ancient borough west of Salisbury. It is a small settlement closer to Marlborough.

04 Sep 2011

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Windmill

Wilton Windmill, Wiltshire.

04 Sep 2011

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Windmill

04 Sep 2011

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Windmill

Wilton, near Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire. Nikon D90 + Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 G lens. 18mm (35 mm equivalent: 27mm)

30 Oct 2018

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Wilton Windmill 30.10.18 - 01

The mill has four sails in total; two patent (these are the slatted sails which can be quickly activated) and two common canvas sails, which have to be set before the mill starts to turn. The function of the fantail is to move the cap on its bearings so that the sails can pick up the wind, if there is any. Nikon D700 + Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S lens.

30 Oct 2018

102 visits

Wilton Windmill 30.10.18 - 02

The mill has four sails in total; two patent (these are the slatted sails which can be quickly activated) and two common canvas sails, which have to be set before the mill starts to turn. Nikon D700 + Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

30 Oct 2018

96 visits

Wilton Windmill 30.10.18 - 03

The fantail. Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF 70-210mm f/4 lens.
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