Breachwood Green Mill is a Grade II listed

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King's Walden King's Walden is a civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire. The name includes an apostrophe, but this is often omitted. The main settlement is now Breachwood Green, and there are also the hamlets of King's Walden, Ley Green, Darleyh ...

, Hertfordshire,

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which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History

A windmill was recorded at Kings Walden in 1329. Another is mentioned in 1762. The first mention of the mill was in 1861 when William Dellow was the miller. His son William had been born at Kings Walden in 1859. Dellow was succeeded at the mill by his son, who worked the mill until 1900. The mill had lost its sails by 1930, and the cap was a bare frame by 1936. The mill was converted to residential accommodation in 1998. Recent photographs of the mill show that the brick tower has been clad in weatherboarding with the result that the mill now resembles a many-sided

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Description

Breachwood Green Mill is a five-storey tower mill. The tower is outside diameter at the base with brickwork thick. It is high to curb level. The dome shaped cap was winded by a ''fantail'' and there were four ''Patent sails''. The ''great spur wheel'' was of cast iron and the mill drove two pairs of ''millstones''.

Millers

*William Dellow 1859- *William Dellow Jr -1900 Reference for above:-

References

External links

Windmill World
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