Charing Windmill
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| Charing Windmill | |
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| Origin Information | |
| Mill Name : | Field Mill |
| Mill Location : | TQ 957 503 |
| Year Built : | Early nineteenth century |
| Windmill Information | |
| Purpose : | Corn milling |
| Type : | Smock mill |
| Storeys : | Three storey smock |
| Base Storeys : | One storey |
| Smock Sides : | Eight sided |
| Number of Sails : | Four |
| Type of Sails : | Two Common sails and two Spring sails |
| Windshaft : | Cast iron |
| Winding : | Fantail |
| Fantail Blades : | Six |
| Number of Millstone Pairs : | Three pairs |
| Other information : | Was painted white when a working mill, tarred black since conversion to a house. |
Charing Windmill is a Grade II listed[1] house converted smock mill in Charing, Kent, England. It is sometimes known as Field Mill, but that name was also used by a watermill in Charing.
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[edit] History
Charing Mill was built in the early nineteenth century. It was marked on the 1819-43 Ordnance Survey map and also on Greenwood's 1821 map of Kent. It was working until 1891, when the business was transferred to Field Watermill,[2] although two new common sails had been erected on the mill by Holman's of Canterbury the year before. The sails were removed in 1917 after being damaged in a gale.[3]
[edit] Description
Charing Mill is a three storey smock mill on a single storey base. It has a Kentish style cap. It had two Common sails and two Spring sails and was winded by a fantail.[3]. The cast iron windshaft carries a wooden Brake Wheel driving a wooden wallower, carried on a wooden upright shaft. The Wooden clasp arm Great Spur Wheel survives, but the three pairs of millstones have been removed.[2] The mill was originally painted white overall, but the body of the mill was creosoted in 1969.[4]
[edit] Millers
- Thomas Parks 1823 - 1827
- Richard Chapman Jennings 1839
- A Sidders
- S Andrews
- Robert Millgate 1878 - Charing Heath windmill?
- Pay 1878 - 1892 Field watermill?
- Pope 1878 - 1892 Field watermill?
- William Smith
- George Smith 1887
- Walter Hicks 1891
References for above:- [2][3][5]
[edit] References
- ^ CHARING WINDMILL, BOWL ROAD, CHARING, ASHFORD, KENT. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2008-06-12.
- ^ a b c West, Jenny (1973). The Windmills of Kent. London: Charles Skilton Ltd., p28-30. SBN 284-98534-1.
- ^ a b c Coles Finch, William (1933). Watermills and Windmills. London: C W Daniel Company, p177.
- ^ View up towards cap. No sweeps or stocks. The Mills Archive Trust. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
- ^ Directory of Kent Mill People. The Mills Archive Trust. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
[edit] External links
- Windmill World page on the mill.
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