Barnet Gate Mill

Barnet Gate Mill (TQ 217 953 Coord|51.643|-0.243|display=inline|format=dms) is a grade II* listedcite web| url= http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=2&id=198814| publisher =English Heritage| title = ARKLEY WINDMILL, BARNET ROAD, BARNET, BARNET, GREATER LONDON| accessdate= 2008-05-21] Tower mill at Arkley, originally in Hertfordshire and now in the London Borough of Barnet which was built in 1823.cite web| url= http://www.anvil.clara.net/hertswindmills.htm| publisher =Anvil| title = HERTFORDSHIRE WINDMILLS| accessdate= 2008-05-21]

History

"Barnet Gate Mill" was built in 1826. A claim that it was built during the Napoleonic Wars (c.1800) has not been substantiated. Although steam had been added in 1895,cite book | first = Cyril| last = Moore| year = 1999| title = Hertfordshire Windmills & Windmillers| pages = p42-44| publisher = Windsup Publishing| location = Sawbridgeworth| id = ISBN 0 9533861 0 4] it was working by wind until 1918, latterly on two sails. The mill was restored in 1930.cite web| url= http://www.barnet.gov.uk/index/leisure-culture/libraries/archives/archives-histories/archives-barnethistories/archives-barnet-arkley.htm| publisher =Barnet Online| title = Arkley and Barnet Gate| accessdate= 2008-05-21] A new cap, fantail and gallery around the cap being made. The work was done by Thomas Hunt, the Soham millwright. Further restoration in 1985 saw the replacement of the missing pair of sails.

Description

"Barnet Gate Mill" is a four storey tower mill with an ogee cap which has a gallery. It has two Patent sails and two Common sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The cap is winded by a fantail.

Machinery

The mill may have started life with two Common sails and two Spring sails carried on a wooden windshaft as the wooden clasp arm Brake Wheel has had to be fitted with packing pieces to enable it to fit the current windshaft, which being of iron is a smaller diameter that a wooden one would be. The Wallower is of cast iron, carried on a wooden upright shaft. This carries the Great Spur Wheel, which is of iron with wooden cogs and drove the two pairs of millstones underdrift. A third pair was added when steam power was installed. Only one pair of millstones remains today.

Millers

*John Whitehead 1843 - 1851
*Frederick Edwards 1870 - 1899
*Noah Edwards 1896 - 1918

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Public access

The mill is open to the public on one day a year.

References

External links

* [http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2594.htm Windmill World] webpage on Barnet Gate mill.