Wrawby Post Mill

I miss the sea and the biting East Coast winds. great for windmills.
Wrawby is a village in North Lincolnshire two miles east of Brigg and close to Humberside Airport on the A18. It is most notable for Wrawby Postmill.
The name of Wrawby is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Waragebi and has had many variant spellings including Wraghebi, Wrakebi and Wraby with Wrawby in use from the 15^th century. The name is thought to derive from the Old Danish meaning Wraghi’s farmstead or village.
Most of Lincolnshire– with the exception of the wolds is low-​lying country, and its exposed position on the eastern coast of England leaves it open to cold winds, which howl across the North Sea from Russia and northern Europe.
It can be chilly, but more often than not the locals can use the elements to their advantage. As early as the 16^th Century those living in the fens borrowed the Dutch idea of using wind engines to drain their marshy homeland; and even after the invention of the steam pump, the windmill remains the most effective miller of grain.
Wrawby Mill is Lincolnshire’s last surviving post mill, built of wood and designed to rotate on a post in order to catch the wind. No one is absolutely certain when it was built, but its construction seems to indicate a date between 1760 and 1790.
For most of the 20^th century the survival of Wrawby Mill has been in doubt-​indeed, in 1961 it was saved from demolition by a band of local people who formed a society dedicated to its preservation. Wrawby Mill was renovated and began milling corn in 1965, and today the society, which cares for it opens the mill to the public throughout the year.
It is painted white and can be seen from the road. The restored mill was re-​opened in 1965 and ground its first bag of corn in 25 years.