Clavering Windmills
{{Short description|Windmills in Clavering, Essex, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox Windmill
|name = North Mill, Clavering
|image = North Mill, Clavering.jpg
|image_size = 250px
|caption = North Mill, November 2006
|name_of_mill = North Mill
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|coordinates = {{coord|51.974|0.136|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline}}
|operator = Private
|built = 1811
|purpose =Corn mill
|type =Tower mill
|storeys =Five storeys
|sail_number =Four sails
|sail_type =Single Patent sails
|windshaft =
|winding =
|fantail_blades =
|auxpower =Oil engine
|pairs_of_millstones=Three pairs
|stone_size =
|other =
}}
{{Infobox Windmill
|name = South Mill, Clavering
|image = 250px
|caption = South Mill, November 2006
|name_of_mill = South Mill
|location_of_mill =
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|coordinates = {{coord|51.973|0.133|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline}}
|operator =Private
|built =1757
|purpose =Corn mill
|type =Tower mill
|storeys =Four storeys
|sail_number =Four sails
|sail_type =Spring sails
|windshaft =
|winding =Fantail
|fantail_blades =
|pairs_of_millstones=Two pairs
|stone_size =
|other =
}}
Clavering Windmills are a pair of Grade II listed{{NHLE| num= 1322464| desc = Windmill at The Mills, Mill End, Clavering | access-date= 2008-07-22}}{{NHLE| num= 1112432| desc = Windmill approximately 180 metres north east of The Mills and shop, Mill End, Clavering | access-date= 2008-07-22}} Tower mills in Clavering, Essex, England. They have both been converted to residential use. They are named North Mill and South Mill. A third mill existed in Clavering until the mid-nineteenth century, known as Clavering Mill.
History
=Clavering Mill=
Clavering Mill was a Post mill. It was marked on a map dated c.1625 and then in the ownership of Sir Francis Barrington. In 1702 it was conveyed to Sir Charles Barrington. The mill was marked on Warburton, Bland and Smyth’s map of 1724. It was marked on a plan of Clavering dated 1783 and also on the 1840 Tithe map of Clavering. White’s Directory of 1848 records three millers in Clavering, the last date at which the post mill can be assumed to have been standing.{{cite book | first = Kenneth| last = Farries| year = 1984| title = Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Volume Three - A Review by Parishes, A-E| pages =81–84| publisher = Charles Skilton| location = Edinburgh| isbn = 0-284-98642-9}}
=North Mill=
North Mill was built for James Pavitt in 1811, working in conjunction with the post mill until 1845. A {{convert|16|hp|kW}} oil engine was installed in 1919 by Thomas Hunt, the Soham millwright. The sails were removed about this time, but the mill worked by the engine for many years.
=South Mill=
South Mill was built in 1757. The mill was idle in 1906, but then put back to work by its new owner, William Caton. It worked by wind until autumn 1919 and the sails were removed the following spring. No auxiliary power was provided, the mill working by wind alone.
Description
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=Clavering Mill=
=North Mill=
=South mill=
Millers
Post
- William Hill 1702
- Thomas Nottage 1802
- James Pavitt 1804 - 1845
South
- Henry Salmon 1772 - 1804
- Henry Moore 1840–1850
- William Overill 1849
- Zachariah Livings 1861
- Robert Spencer 1871
- William Caton 1906 - 1919
North
- James Pavitt 1811–1845
- James Pavitt Jr 1845 - 1850
- Spencer 1879
- William Caton 1906 –
- A E Caton 1935
External links
- [http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2349.htm Windmill World] webpage on South Mill
- [http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/2350.htm Windmill World] webpage on North Mill