The windpump now situated on the Sedge Fen,the only working wooden windpump remaining in the Fens, was originally sited on Adventuers’ Fen. It was known as (Bill) Norman’s Mill, and was used to drain and control water levels in turf (peat) digging pits.

It is known that a pump stood on the site in 1886, but its date of construction is unclear.  The internal workings of this original pump were re-used in 1908, when Hunts of Soham built a skeleton mill at the site. It was weatherboarded in 1910, and underwent several renovations before being abandoned in the late 1940s. Turf digging on Adventurers’ Fen had long since ceased, and the pump had been used at the end to help drain the land for food production during World War II.