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International windmill

The International Windmill and Watermill Museum is located at Gifhorn in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. This museum covers an area of 40 acres, which has 16 windmills from 12 different countries. The founder and owner of this windmill museum is Horst Wrobel, who discovered an old post mill in the year 1965 during an outing at Abbenrode; afterwards he made a replica of this mill at a scale of 1:25 and then gathered all kinds of material about windmills and watermills. In the year 1974 he formed a private museum in Suhlendorf with the first models of mills that he built.

This windmill museum opened for common people in the year 1980following two years of research in engineering by Aller-Ohre-Verband. With the help of bulldozers and flushing dredgers, numerous ditches and ponds were created.

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Heckington windmill

Heckington Windmill is located between Sleaford and Boston in Lincolnshire, which stands very close to Heckington Railway Station, hence previously it was known as Station Mill. This building was built in the year 1830 and was planned by Edward Ingeldew. This Windmill has six floors: ground floor, meal floor, stone floor, lower bin floor, upper bin floor and dust floor.

This windmill was built in the year 1830 with five sails, afterwards plenty of improvements were done in the year 1890 and sails of this windmill were increased from five to eight. Now, this windmill has the honor of being the last remaining eight sail windmill in United Kingdom. First owner of this windmill was Michael Hareand later on it was operated by Sleighton and Joseph Nash for forty years

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Ballycopeland Windmill

Ballycopeland Windmill is situated one mile west of Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland. This windmill is a functioning windmill, which is managed by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency and is open to public. It is estimated that this windmill was built around the year 1780 or 1790, which was owned by the McGilton family. In the year of 1935 this windmill was taken over by the government of Northern Ireland.

This windmill is a usual Irish stone tower mill, with a movable cap turned by an automatic fantail, which ensures that blades always face the wind. Ballycopeland windmill has three floors; one is a drive floor, second is a stone floor and third is a hopper floor. This windmill has two side entrance doors one is west door and second is east door.

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