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Greenhill Windmill

Coordinates: 37°11′59″S 144°26′08″E / 37.199688°S 144.435487°E / -37.199688; 144.435487
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Greenhill Windmill
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Origin
Mill nameGreenhill Windmill / Windmill Farm windmill
Mill locationGreenhill, Victoria
Coordinates37°11′59″S 144°26′08″E / 37.199688°S 144.435487°E / -37.199688; 144.435487
Year built1856
Information
PurposeCorn mill
TypeTower mill
StoreysFour storey tower
No. of sailsFour sails

Greenhill Windmill is a traditional masonry tower windmill, built in 1856 at Greenhill Farm near Kyneton, Victoria, Australia.

Joseph Hall (1804-21 August 1871) and William Hoad purchased thirty hectares of farm land located on Metcalfe Road, Green Hill, at the original Crown sales in 1855. The following year they erected the windmill, using bluestone quarried on their property.[1][2][3]

Joseph Hall was born at Dacre, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England, and married Annie Walton on 23 July 1831 at Kirkoswald. He became a local Kyneton pioneer who resided for a time at Sunbury Lodge prior to moving to Windmill Farm and then lived Park Hall, Lauriston where he died on 21 August 1871.[4]

The property was bequeathed to the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) in 1984.[5] is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register (H0311) and Shire of Metcalf Heritage Overlay (HO127)[1] and is classified by the National Trust.[6]

The mill is located at 1203 Kyneton-Metcalfe Road, Kyneton, Victoria 3444

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References

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  1. ^ a b Victorian Heritage Database, Windmill Farm Windmill
  2. ^ Shire of Kyneton. No.311. Windmill, Windmill Farm, Greenhill, Kyneton. Victoria Government Gazette No 100 Wednesday, October 9, 1974 p.3650
  3. ^ "Wind Energy Guide". Saturday, 9 November 2019
  4. ^ Lynch, John (2008), Joseph Hall (1804-1871) Kyneton pioneer : including Park Hall, Windmill Farm & Sunbury Lodge, John Lynch, retrieved 5 January 2017
  5. ^ "WIND - POWERED FLOUR & GRAIN MILLS IN AUSTRALIA". Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  6. ^ Windmill Farm Windmill
  • Windmill Farm conservation analysis, Kyneton, prepared for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) by David Bick, Carlotta Kellaway, John Patrick; & edited by Anne-Marie Treweeke, National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Melbourne, 1993.