Charing Windmill
{{Short description|Windmill in Charing, Kent, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox Windmill
|name = Charing Windmill
|image = Charing mil3.JPG
|image_size = 250px
|caption = The converted mill.
|name_of_mill = Field Mill
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|coordinates = {{coord |51|13|1|N|0|48|8|E|type:landmark_region:GB-KEN|display=inline,title}}
|operator =
|built = Early nineteenth century
|purpose = Corn milling
|type = Smock mill
|storeys = Three-storey smock
|base_storeys = One storey
|roundhouse_storeys =
|smock_sides = Eight-sided
|sail_number = Four
|sail_type = Two Common sails and two Spring sails
|windshaft = Cast iron
|winding = Fantail
|fantail_blades = Six
|auxpower =
|pairs_of_millstones= Three pairs
|stone_size =
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|other = Was painted white when a working mill, tarred black since conversion to a house.
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Charing Windmill is a Grade II listed{{NHLE| num= 1299636| desc = Charing Windmill, Bowl Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent| access-date= 2008-06-12}} smock windmill, now converted to a house, on Charing Hill in Kent in southeast England. It is sometimes known as Field Mill, but that name was also used by a watermill in Charing.
History
Charing Mill was built in the early 19th century. It was marked on the 1819–43 Ordnance Survey map and also on Greenwood's 1821 map of Kent. It was working until 1891, when the business was transferred to Field Watermill,{{cite book | first = Jenny| last = West| year = 1973| title = The Windmills of Kent| pages = 28–30| publisher = Charles Skilton Ltd.| location = London| isbn = 0-284-98534-1}} although two new common sails had been erected on the mill by Holman's of Canterbury the year before. The sails were removed in 1917 after being damaged in a gale.{{cite book | first = William| last = Coles Finch| author-link=William Coles Finch| year = 1933| title = Watermills and Windmills| pages = 177| publisher = C W Daniel Company| location = London}}
Description
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Charing Mill is a three-storey smock mill on a single-storey base. It has a Kentish-style cap. It had two common sails and two spring sails and was winded by a fantail. The cast-iron windshaft carries a wooden brake wheel driving a wooden wallower, carried on a wooden upright shaft. The wooden clasp arm great spur wheel survives, but the three pairs of millstones have been removed. The mill was originally painted white overall, but the body of the mill was creosoted in 1969.{{cite web| url= http://www.millsarchive.com/aspx/secured/item.aspx?intItemID=24308&strTitle=View%20up%20towards%20cap.%20No%20sweeps%20or%20stocks| publisher = The Mills Archive Trust| title = View up towards cap. No sweeps or stocks| access-date= 2008-04-14}}
Millers
- Thomas Parks 1823–1827
- Richard Chapman Jennings 1839
- A Sidders
- S Andrews
- Robert Millgate 1878 (Charing Heath windmill?)
- Pay 1878–1892 (Field watermill?)
- Pope 1878–1892 (Field watermill?)
- William Smith
- George Smith 1887
- Walter Hicks 1891{{cite web|url=http://www.millarchive.com/kent/millpeople/Kent%20Mill%20People.htm |publisher=The Mills Archive Trust |title=Directory of Kent Mill People |access-date=2008-04-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416174906/http://www.millarchive.com/kent/millpeople/Kent%20Mill%20People.htm |archive-date=2009-04-16 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2746.htm Windmill World page] on the mill.
{{Kent Windmills}}
Category:Buildings and structures completed in the 19th century
Category:Grinding mills in the United Kingdom
Category:Smock mills in England