Windpump
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A windpump is similar to a windmill. However, it is not used for milling grain, but for pumping water from a well or draining arable or other land.
On US farms, particularly in the midwest, windpumps of the type pictured were used to pump water from farm wells for cattle. Most pumping today is done by electric pumps, and only a few windpumps survive as unused relics of a previous technology.
The Netherlands is well known for its windmills. These iconic structures situated along the edge of polders are actually windpumps, designed to drain the land. These are particularly important as much of the country lies below sea level.
UK
As with the Dutch area of Holland with which it shares some similarities, many windpumps were built in The Broads, both the Norfolk Broads and the Suffolk Broads, of East Anglia for the draining of land. They have since been mostly replaced by electric power but both the preserved and derelict structures dot the landscape.Tower mills:
- Berney Arms Mill, Norfolk
- Horsey Mill
- Clayrack Hollow Post Mill, Norfolk
- Palmers Hollow Post Mill
- Saxtead Green Post Mill, Suffolk
- Priory Mill, St. Olaves
- Boardman's Mill, open framed timber trestle windpump
- Flatford Mill
- Briggate Mill
- Stracey Arms Mill
- Lockgate Mill
- Mutton's Mill
- High's Mill
- Cadge's Mill
- Kerrison's Level Mill
- Runham Swim Mill
- Windpump, Wicken Fen
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