SOMERSHAM MILL FARM

This smock mill, situated at Mill Farm in Somersham Fen was, I believe, unique. It rose from a wooden base in the middle of a large corn barn at this remote fen farm; it could not have been of very great age and was worked in fairly recent times.
All the machinery was of iron with the exception of the windshaft and the cogs on the spur wheel. Two pulleys one on each side of this wheel were used to drive a chaff cutter and cake crusher. No sack hoist was necessary as all material to be ground could be barrowed up to the one pair of peak stones. The uprights of the tower were of pitch pine.
In 1932 the sails and fantail were gone and the whole mill is now dismantled. It was last used by Mr Samson tenant of the farm.