Chalton Windmill

Chalton Windmill
Origin
Mill name	Chalton mill
Grid reference	SU 7160 1608
Coordinates	50°56′23″N 0°58′56″W / 50.9398°N 0.9822°W / 50.9398; -0.9822Coordinates: 50°56′23″N 0°58′56″W / 50.9398°N 0.9822°W / 50.9398; -0.9822
Year built	Early C19th
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Tower mill
Storeys	Four storeys
Number of sails	Four sails
Type of sails	Patent sails
Windshaft	Cast iron
Winding	Fantail

Chalton Windmill is a Grade II listed^[1] tower mill on the top of Windmill Hill at Chalton, Hampshire, England which has been converted to residential use.

History

A mill has been recorded on the site since 1289.^[2] A windmill was marked on John Norden's map dated 1607, John Speed's map dated 1611, Joan Blaeu's map dated 1645 and John Ogilby's map dated 1675'^[3] Chalton mill was built in the early nineteenth century.^[1]. In the 1950s it was threatened with demolition but a preservation order was placed on the mill by the local council.^[4] Circa 1978 permission was given for the mill to be incorporated into a new-build house.^[5] The converted mill was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Petersfield Society.^[4]

Description

For an explanation of the various items of machinery, see Mill machinery.

Chalton windmill is a four storey tower mill. It had four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft and the cap was winded by a fantail. The millstones were driven overdrift.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "CHALTON WINDMILL, CLANFIELD, EAST HAMPSHIRE, HAMPSHIRE". English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=142806. Retrieved 7 June 2009. 
2. ^ "CHALTON". British History Online. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41937. Retrieved 7 June 2009. 
3. ^ "Windmill, Clanfield". enve.port.ac.uk. http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/hantsgaz/S0007828.HTM. Retrieved 7 June 2009. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "The Petersfield Society Awards". The Petersfield Society. http://www.petersfieldsociety.org.uk/awards.php. Retrieved 7 June 2009. ^{[dead link]}
5. ^ ^{a b} Ellis, Monica (editor) (1978). Water and Wind Mills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Southampton: Southampton University Industrial Archaeology Group. pp. p60. ISBN 0-905280-01-6. 

External links

Windmill World webpage on Chalton windmill Photograph of the derelict mill c1964