Little Marton Windmill
This model is available to Cults3d In some countries, the wind is so reliable you can build your windmill facing one direction. I believe the windmills on Mykonos are a famous example, facing north to catch the Meltemi. In the UK, millers were not so luck, and windmills had to be built to turn to face the wind, whichever way it was blowing. One way to do that was a "post mill", in which the whole (or most of) the) body was turned. Because the grinding wheels were turned too, the mechanism to transmit power from the sails to the grinding wheels was kept simple. A later development was the tower windmill, in which only the very top rotated. The required a way to transmit the power from the moving section to the stationary section. However, it did allow the mill to be built of stone or brick, so it could be significantly higher, and so catch more of the wind. The windmill at Little Marton is a tower windmill, built in 1838, and it is thought there were originally four in the are...