Thaxted Windmill Trust, now a community interest company company (CIO), hopes to reopen the museum in future to help promote and protect endangered traditional skills such as millwrighting.

It is a well-known landmark and loved by the community. Another iconic landmark was built in 1804, the John Webb's Windmill, which is a tower mill and is the only remaining windmill in Thaxted.

Essex Police were called to Orchard Close, Thaxted, on Monday at 00:35 GMT, following reports of an assault. Despite the best efforts of paramedics, a man in his 50s died at the scene.

A 51-year-old man has been charged with murder after another man died in a garden. Police were called to Orchard Close in Thaxted, Essex, just after midnight on Monday where they found a man aged ...