Standing tall against the horizon, their sails whirling in the air, the windmill has often captured man's fancy. From Cervantes who wrote of Don Quixote's famous attack on the windmill giants to the paintings of the East Anglian countryside of John Constable, whose family owned mills, the windmill has played a part in the historic and artistic, as well as economic, development of western civilization. Holland comes to mind first as the windmill capital of the world, but England's windmills were equally plentiful and important to the economy of the country.

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