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Keston Windmill (TQ 415 640 51°21′25″N 0°01′59″E / 51.357, 0.033) is a Post mill in Keston, formerly in Kent and now in the London Borough of Bromley, England that was built in 1716.
[edit] History
Keston Windmill was built in 1716. The mill was working by wind until either 1878[1][2] or 1900.[3] The mill was built to grind corn into flour. The mill is privately owned and preserved with its machinery intact, but not in working order. It is not generally open to the public.
[edit] Description
Keston Mill has a three storey buck on a single storey roundhouse. It had four double patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The mill is winded by a tailpole. The Brake Wheel drives a cast iron Wallower, which drives a cast iron Great Spur Wheel with wooden cogs. This drives two pairs of underdrift millstones in the breast of the mill. The mill also has a flour dresser (bolter).[1] The bolter in Keston mill has been used as the model for a reconstructed bolter in Lowfield Heath Windmill, Charlwood, Surrey.[4]
William Ashby, the Westerham millwright fitted new sails and repaired the breast of the mill in December 1836.[1]
[edit] Millers
- John Ellis 1838
- Thomas Ellis 1845
- Martin J Hoath 1845
- B Hoadley 1862
References for above:-[1][5]
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