British Windmills!
In England around 12 eight-sailers, more than 50 six- and 50 five-sailers were built in the late 18th and 19th centuries, half of them in Lincolnshire. Of the eight sailed mills only Pocklington’s Mill in Heckington survived in fully functional state. A few of the other ones exist as four-sailed mills (Old Buckenham), as residences (Diss Button’s Mill), as ruins (Leach’s Windmill, Wisbech), or have been dismantled (Holbeach Mill; Skirbeck Mill, Boston). In Lincolnshire some of the six-sailed (Sibsey Trader Mill, Waltham Windmill) and five-sailed (Dobson’s Mill in Burgh le Marsh, Maud Foster Windmill in Boston, Hoyle’s Mill in Alford) slender (mostly tarred) tower mills with their white onion-shaped cap and a huge fantail are still there and working today. Other former five- and six-sailed Lincolnshire and Yorkshire tower mills now without sails and partly without cap are LeTall’s Mill in Lincoln, Holgate Windmill in Holgate, York 
(momentarily undergoing a restoration programme), Black, Cliff, or Whiting’s Mill (a seven-storeyed chalk mill) in Hessle and (with originally six sails) Barton-upon-Humber Tower mill, Brunswick Mill in Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, Metheringham Windmill, Penny Hill Windmill in Holbeach, Wragby Mill (built by E. Ingledew in 1831, millwright of Heckington Mill in 1830), and Wellingore Tower Mill. Another fine six-sailer can be found in Derbyshire - England’s only sandstone towered windmill at Heage of 1791.
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