Charing Windmill is a

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house converted smock mill 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 nineteenth 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, 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.

Description

''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 Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, for grinding wheat or other grains. They are sometimes referred to as grindstones or grinding stones. Millstones come in pairs: a convex stationary base known as the ''bedstone'' and ...

have been removed. The mill was originally painted white overall, but the body of the mill was creosoted in 1969.

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 References for above:-

References

External links

Windmill World page
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