Barnet Gate Mill
{{Short description|Windmill in the London Borough of Barnet, England}}
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{{Infobox Windmill
|name = Arkley Windmill
|image = Barnet Gate Mill - geograph.org.uk - 384642.jpg
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|caption = Barnet Gate Mill.
|name_of_mill = Barnet Gate Mill
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|coordinates = {{coord|51.643|-0.243|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
|operator = Private
|built = c. 1830
|purpose = Corn mill
|type = tower mill
|storeys = Four storeys
|sail_number = Four sails
|sail_type = Two Patent sails and two Common sails
|windshaft = Cast iron
|winding = Fantail
|fantail_blades =
|auxpower = Steam engine
|pairs_of_millstones= Three pairs
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Barnet Gate Mill or Arkley Windmill is a grade II* listed tower mill at Barnet Gate in the London Borough of Barnet, originally in Hertfordshire.{{NHLE|num=1359022 |desc=ARKLEY WINDMILL, BARNET ROAD, BARNET, BARNET, GREATER LONDON |access-date=2008-05-21 }} There is no public access.
History
Barnet Gate Mill was probably built between 1822 and 1840. 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 = 42–44| publisher = Windsup Publishing| location = Sawbridgeworth| isbn = 0-9533861-0-4}} it was working by wind until 1916. 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 |access-date=2008-05-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124001206/http://www.barnet.gov.uk/index/leisure-culture/libraries/archives/archives-histories/archives-barnethistories/archives-barnet-arkley.htm |archive-date=January 24, 2011 }} A new cap, fantail and gallery around the cap being made. The work was done by Thomas Hunt, the Soham millwright. In a further restoration in 1985, the missing pair of sails was replaced.
Description
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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 than 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
References
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External links
- [http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2594.htm Windmill World] webpage on Barnet Gate mill
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Category:Tower mills in the United Kingdom
Category:Grinding mills in the United Kingdom
Category:Windmills completed in 1823
Category:Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Barnet
Category:Tourist attractions in the London Borough of Barnet