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XIII/XIV century
Coina Tide Mill
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XV century
Verderena’s Tide Mill (Small)
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XVII Century
Verderena’s Tide Mill (Large)
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XV century
The Tide Mill “d’el Rei”
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XV century
Palhais Tide Mill
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XVI century or earlier
The Duque Tide Mill
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XV century
Cape Tide Mill
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XVI century
Maricote Tide Mill
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XV/XVI century
Cabo de Alcoitão Tide Mills
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XVII century
The Large Tide Mill
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XVII century
The Small Tide Mill
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XVIII century
The Braamcamp Tide
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XVIII century
The Caldeira Windmill (demolished)
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XIX century
The Barão do Sobral Windmill (demolished)
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XIX century
The Jim’s windmill
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XIX century
The Recosta Windmill (demolished)
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XIX century
Windmills beach at Lavradio
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XIX century
Alburrica Giant Mill
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XIX century
Alburrica Windmill on the Sunrise side
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XIX century
Alburrica Windmill on the Sunset side
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XIX century
The Meloal windmill (demolished)
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XIII/XIV century
Coina Tide Mill
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XV century
Verderena’s Tide Mill (Small)
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XVII Century
Verderena’s Tide Mill (Large)
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XV century
The Tide Mill “d’el Rei”
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XV century
Palhais Tide Mill
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XVI century or earlier
The Duque Tide Mill
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XV century
Cape Tide Mill
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XVI century
Maricote Tide Mill
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XV/XVI century
Cabo de Alcoitão Tide Mills
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XVII century
The Large Tide Mill
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XVII century
The Small Tide Mill
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XVIII century
The Braamcamp Tide
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XVIII century
The Caldeira Windmill (demolished)
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XIX century
The Barão do Sobral Windmill (demolished)
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XIX century
The Jim’s windmill
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XIX century
The Recosta Windmill (demolished)
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XIX century
Windmills beach at Lavradio
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XIX century
Alburrica Giant Mill
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XIX century
Alburrica Windmill on the Sunrise side
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XIX century
Alburrica Windmill on the Sunset side
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XIX century
The Meloal windmill (demolished)
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XIII/XIV century 
Coina Tide Mill 
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There are documentary references for mills in Coina since the 13th century. The mill of the Order already existed in 1359 and being this one that today we can find, it was originally one of three mills having been later extended to five. Since then it kept the particularity of the water gate to be located more or less to the centre of the mill. It’s currently known as Moinho do Olival or Moinho da Quinta do Manique.
XV century 
Verderena’s Tide Mill (Small) 
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It was due to Gaspar Correia the construction of the first tidal mill in Verderena, which in 1484 was still within the limits of the “alfoz de Alhos Vedros”. In 1521 it became a reference for the demarcation of the border between the county of Alhos Vedros and Barreiro, but as an integral part of the latter, a fact that can be attested by the Letter of privilege written that year and granted to the place of Barreiro, by which it became a village. Initially it had five water wheels’, later it was expanded to six.
XVII Century 
Verderena’s Tide Mill (Large) 
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In the eighteenth century there are references to the mill which belonged to the friars who inhabited the “Convent of Madre de Deus da Verderena”, that already existed in 1755 with six water wheel’s, located next to the previous one, existing one wall that separated the two millponds. The water that activated the millstones of the first mill entered immediately to the millpond of the second, in such a way that it kept the millstones of the latter in operation for longer. This mill after enlarging reached the number of nine water wheels; it was then, in 1910 that the installation assumes great size reaching three floors, when there appeared the milling of Casimiro Freire. In 1921, the “Empresa de Moagem Bomfim, Lda.”, requires a pig-farming license upgrading the unit by becoming a steam mill with the ability to make flour for its self-sufficiency and sale of surplus, and later already under the name “Sociedade Industrial de Vila Franca and Bonfim Lda.”, they then assembled a hydraulic turbine. The two Verderena mills were demolished in 1970, leaving only the traces of the wheelhouses and the walls of the millponds, remaining vestiges that, after a further expansion and restructuring of the territory, were buried under the landfill brought by the POLIS program.
XV century 
The Tide Mill “d’el Rei” 
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Belonging to the King, the d’El Rei tidal mill, in the 15th century, was the largest of the Tagus estuary, with eight mills, supplying the Royal Ovens at Vale de Zebro, "bakery industry", which supported the royal fleets and fortresses of the kingdom during the Discoveries era. Only the base structure remains with the wheelhouses. It is only visible from the water.
XV century 
Palhais Tide Mill 
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The Palhais Tide Mill had six millstones; and it was built in 15th century by the Mealheiro family. Damaged by the earthquake of 1755 when it belonged to the Sousa de Távora family, it was re-erected and came to the twentieth century inhabited and in operation. In contradiction to its nomenclature the Tide Mill of Palhais, the old mill, now in poor state of conservation, belongs administratively not to Palhais, but to Santo André, of the Union of Parishes of Alto do Seixalinho, Santo André and Verderena.
XVI century or earlier 
The Duque Tide Mill 
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The date of the construction of Moinho do Duque, located at Telha, Parish of Santo André, is unknown, but it will be later than the one of Maricote, its name coming from the fact that it belonged to the Duke of Cadaval. It had six mills, boats, and houses of residence of the miller. This Tide Mill was contemporary of “Ribeira das naus da Telha” occupying a contiguous space that today as the one of the old shipyard belongs to the Parceria Geral de Pescarias.
XV century 
Cape Tide Mill 
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The first references to the Moinho do Cabo de Pêro Moço, later called Cabo da Lenha or just Cabo, dates back to 1495. Originally built under the aegis of the Order of Santiago with 4 millstones, later it doubled the milling capacity for eight couples of millstones with the construction of one twin mill sharing the same millpond. In 1814 it belonged to the house of the Marquês das Minas, who sold it to the Costa family in August 1880. Then it labored simultaneously in the grinding of cereals and the husking of rice. It fell victim to a fire in 1933 when “Francisco Gameiro & Irmãos” cork factory worked there. At the beginning of the 1940s the mill was still standing.
XVI century 
Maricote Tide Mill 
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The Maricote Tide Mill, unfortunately already disappeared, was located on Telha’s beach and its construction was due to Pedro Eanes Cota, in the beginning of the 16th century, revealing the great influence and importance that this family had in the old place of Telha. Perduring his name the memory of the builder. The ruins of the Maricote Tide Mill still existed in the 19th century, as evidenced in the chart of 1816 [r. Mº da Maricot], losing track of its existence over the ages, until its complete destruction.
XV/XVI century 
Cabo de Alcoitão Tide Mills 
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In this ancient cape of Alcoitão or Alcoutarém there were tidal mills (15th century) and salines for sea salt extraction (14th century). In the 19th century the nearest saline still maintained the denomination of "marinha do cabo". 15th century - One tidal mill had as owner Rui Galvão secretary of King’s chamber, and would have had 4 millstones. In 1509 his son, Duarte Galvão, was authorized to raise one other next to the first. 16th century - On May 23, 1578, Brás Afonso de Albuquerque, the natural son of Afonso de Albuquerque, the captain-chief of India and owner of Quinta do Meloal in Lavradio, leases to Fernão Dias one of these previously mentioned Tide Mills, or one of his own at Cabo do Alcoitão (also in Lavradio).
XVII century 
The Large Tide Mill 
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Prior to 1652, the Moinho Grande, as it is now known, was endowed with seven couples of millstones and belonged to the 1st Visconde da Lançada, Manuel Inácio Júlio de Sampaio e Pina (1778-1856) and his son Inácio Júlio de Sampaio e Pina Freire (1831-1910). It’s exclusively milling activity ceased around 1892, when it started to work for the “Companhia da Fábrica da Serração, Orey Antunes & Cª.”, which earned it the nickname of Moinho da Serração (sawing mill), ending his activity in 1904 due to a fire. In the 1920s “Henry Burnay & Cª.”, one Lisbon based company, installed a mill to grind and mix various products of animal and vegetable origin for cattle breeding and the property became since then known as Burnay Mill.
XVII century 
The Small Tide Mill 
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The Small Tide Mill, named after having only three millstones, also predates 1652 and was known as the mill of “S. Roque" because its income is associated with this hermitage. It labored until the first quarter of the 20th century. It was, however, a pasta and biscuit factory. It later became a warehouse for products that came to Barreiro from Ribatejo on board of traditional sailing boats.
XVIII century 
The Braamcamp Tide 
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The exact date of the construction of this tidal mill originally with seven millstones is unknown, but it should have been before 1755 once it was damaged by the earthquake, when it was owned by Vasco Lourenço Veloso who rebuilt it. It is located on the Ponta do Mexilhoeiro, inserted in Braamcamp’s farm, as it is still called today, because it was acquired in 1804, together with the other buildings by Geraldo Wenceslau Braamcamp de Almeida Castelo Branco, 1st Barão do Sobral who increases the milling capacity from 7seven to ten millstones, making it the largest of the tidal mills in the Tagus Estuary region. In 1828 the mill was rented to Miguel Byrn owner of bakeries at Lisbon and that now happened to produce in the Barreiro. Byrn built a biscuit factory associated with the mill. In 1837, Anselmo José Braamcamp, the heir of the 1st Baron of Sobral, changed ownership with Abraham Wheelhouse. In 1884 the mill and the farm came to the possession of the heirs of Robert Hunter Reynolds, an English citizen, who came in 1894 to adapt the property to install “The Cork Company” and the “Sociedade Nacional de Cortiças” from 1897 onwards. In 2003, after the closure of the industrial unit the mill suffered a fire that destroyed it.
XVIII century 
The Caldeira Windmill (demolished) 
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In the detail of the Setúbal Peninsula Topographical Chart, elaborated for military purposes between 1813 and 1816, it can be observed a windmill in the old Beach of the Rosary (North Beach), contiguous to the millpond of the Braamcamp tide mill. This is the old mill of Luis da Costa, which, in 1816 was already in a state of degradation. It would have been the first of the windmills, since in this chart it is not mentioned no other.
XIX century 
The Barão do Sobral Windmill (demolished) 
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It is mentioned in a document from 1817 that the Barão do Sobral, Wenceslau Braancamp was building with the help of English engineers, a windmill in Vila do Barreiro, which in 1820 is described as "a windmill that has no similar in this realm, and perhaps not in the other nations". An authentic vertical grinding mill with "five floors of solid construction, forcing such a machine, which, simultaneously beat the wheat, leading it to four millstones, then to the sieves, where the flours were separated from the bran". Time and a fire led to its ruin, however, reduced to a height of 3 meters its base and the factory that surrounded it were taken for successively advantages by the agricultural and industrial establishments that came to occupy the space of what until today is known as Quinta Braamcamp.
XIX century 
The Jim’s windmill 
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Jim's Mill was built in 1827 by James Hartley or Diogo Hartley, an English official (miller) master, who in 1818 came to Portugal with the goal of building the Braamcamp Giant Windmill. The mill system was of English typology. Fixed tower in stone and lime, with two-roof and four rectangular wooden cloth covered sails. With the appearance of the mechanical and industrial grinding powered by steam, it was dismantled. After having ceased the milling activity it had several uses until finally having been acquired by the Municipality of Barreiro in 1960.
XIX century 
The Recosta Windmill (demolished) 
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The old windmill of Luis da Costa, adjacent to the Braamcamp mill, "moved" by agreement between the said Luis da Costa and Geraldo Braamcamp to Alto da Recosta in a position overlooking the tide mill (Moinho Pequeno). In 1847 it was in the possession of the Prior of the Parish of S. Lourenço d'Alhos Vedros, Pedro Maria da Costa.
XIX century 
Windmills beach at Lavradio 
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We are aware that on the Lavradio beach, there were 4 windmills and that is why it was known as Moinhos beach, located near the Alqueivanço salines. On the chorographic chart of the lands around Lisbon, dated from 1856, it can be observed the location of the four windmills, and by documentation we can reach four owners. The expansion of CUF factories ended up destroying the place, but in the 1940s, there was only one of the mills that was also known as the Centavo Mill. Lavradio I Windmill – Owner João dos Santos Costa Lavradio II Windmill – Built by Francisco Rompana construído in 1850 Lavradio III Windmill – Owner Maria Joaquina Costa Lavradio IV Windmill – Owner José Silvestre. It was geodetic reference as a Mill of the Centavo
XIX century 
Alburrica Giant Mill 
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It was built in 1852 by José Pedro da Costa, has the characteristics of an English mill, had four rectangular wooden cloth covered sails and a two-story roof with chain wheel attached to the turning gear allowing to be oriented in the wind by the outside. It presents a stone inscription that says IT WAS COMMITTED TO BUILD BY JOZE PEDRO DA COSTA IN THE ANNO OF 1852. It had already ceased its activity in 1919, and it was since then in the process of being degraded. It came to be acquired by the municipality in 1997.
XIX century 
Alburrica Windmill on the Sunrise side 
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Built in 1852 by José Pedro da Costa, - a windmill with a slightly conical fixed tower, similar to the one on the sunset side. It was acquired by the municipality in 1973 and in 2017 was refitted as original with all the mechanisms in working conditions for cultural and touristic purposes.
XIX century 
Alburrica Windmill on the Sunset side 
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Constructed in 1952 by José Francisco da Costa - windmill of a slightly conical fixed tower, movable, ground floor and upper floor. In the exterior, it has, above the door facing south, a tile panel that says it was by order of José Francisco da Costa in 1852 and evocative of Our Lady of the Rosary - N. Sª DO. ROZARIO.DA V. DO. BARREIRO. JOSEPH. FRANCISCO, DA COSTA. ANNO. DE. 1852. It was acquired by the municipality in 1973.
XIX century 
The Meloal windmill (demolished) 
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For this mill there is at present no information other than a cartographic reference.
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