- Heritage Mill, North Chailey
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North Chailey Windmill 
The mill in 2009Origin Mill name Heritage Mill
Beard's MillMill location TQ 386 214
50°58′30″N 0°01′37″W / 50.975°N 0.027°WOperator(s) Chailey Heritage Mill Trust Year built Mid C19th Information Purpose Corn mill Type Smock mill Storeys Three storey smock Base storeys Single storey base Smock sides Eight sides Number of sails Four sails Type of sails Patent sails Windshaft Cast iron Winding Fantail Fantail blades Eight blades Heritage Mill, or Beard's Mill is a grade II listed[1] smock mill at North Chailey, Sussex, England which is maintained as a landmark and open to the public.
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History
A windmill was first recorded at this site in 1596.Heritage Mill, the seventh on this site,[2] was built in 1830 at Highbrook, West Hoathly, where she was known as Hammingden Mill. In 1844 she was moved to Newhaven, replacing a mill that had burnt down. She was made redundant by the erection of a steam mill and was moved again, this time to her current location at Chailey, replacing a post mill. This second move was done by Medhurst, the Lewes millwright. Heritage Mill was working by wind until 1911.[3]
In 1928 the mill was tailwinded, and the cap and sails were blown off. The mill was restored in 1933. The work was done by Neve's, the Heathfield millwrights. A few years later, the mill was tailwinded again, and this time the windshaft snapped between the Brake Wheel and canister. Neve's installed the windshaft from Punnetts Town Windmill, which had been partly dismantled in 1935.[3]
Description
The great spur wheel
For an explanation of the various pieces of machinery, see Mill machinery.Heritage Mill is a three storey smock mill on a single storey brick base. It has a Kentish style cap winded by a fantail. When working it had four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The only machinery remaining is the clasp arm great spur wheel.[3]
Millers
- John Arnold 1841(Hammingden)
- Bollen 1844 (Newhaven)
- Messrs Stone & Towner - 1864 (Newhaven)
- Godley
- Thomas Comber
- H K Wallis 1870
- A G Sparkes 1874
- Lockyer 1878 - 1911
References for above:-[3]
See also
- Wikipedia books: Windmills in Sussex
References
- ^ "FOUNDERS HILL, CHAILEY, LEWES, EAST SUSSEX". English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=2&id=292798. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ "Chailey Windmill, Sussex - 23rd December 2003". Roughwood. http://www.roughwood.net/PhotoAlbum/2003%20Album/ChaileyMill2003.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
- ^ a b c d Brunnarius, Martin (1979). The Windmills of Sussex. Chichester: Philimore. pp. p57–59, 190. ISBN 0 85033 345 8.
Further reading
External links
- Windmill World Page on Chailey Windmill.
- Visiting information
Hemming, Peter (1936). Windmills in Sussex. London: C W Daniel. Online version
Categories:- Smock mills
- Grinding mills
- Museums in East Sussex
- Buildings and structures completed in 1830
- Grade II listed buildings in East Sussex
- Windmills in East Sussex
- Mill museums in England
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