Eastbridge Windpump

Eastbridge Windpump is a smock mill that served as a pumping station until it was relocated to the Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England and which was then restored to working order.

Eastbridge Windpump was probably built in the mid nineteenth century by Robert Martin, the Beccles millwright.

[1] It was originally part of the structures built to maintain the drainage of the Minsmere Levels, Eastbridge, Leiston (TM 468 662).

The restoration work was done by Jameson Marshall Ltd.[2] Eastbridge windpump is a 30 feet (9.14 m) high smock mill on a brick base of a few courses.

A cast-iron crown wheel drives a three-throw plunger pump, which has cylinders 1 foot (305 mm) square.