Finchingfield windmill, Essex 🌍


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Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

post mill function:Corn mill - restored

Signboard says:
Essex County Council
Finchingfield Post Mill
The smallest remaining post mill in Essex. Built around 1756 and a fine example of the millwright's craft of that time.
Finchingfield, 12/1/08
Finchingfield
Finchingfield in the snow, 30/12/2000
Country Life magazine cover showing Finchingfield post mill, issue 13/10/1943
C W Packham
Essex Countryside magazine cover showing the post mill at Finchingfield, issue June 1966
Essex Countryside
Essex Countryside magazine cover showing the post mill at Finchingfield, issue January 1967
Essex Countryside
Essex Life magazine cover showing Finchingfield post mill, issue April 2013
Essex Life
Mill ID 2430
Finchingfield, , c1930s
© Alan Caston collection
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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2430 - Duck End Mill, Finchingfield (has photos)

[English Heritage]

Muggeridge Collection photos

[PastScape]

Finchingfield Windmill [2023-05-14]

Chris Allen

Finchingfield Windmill [2023-05-14]

Chris Allen

Finchingfield Windmill [2023-05-14]

Chris Allen

Finchingfield Windmill [2023-05-14]

Chris Allen

Finchingfield Windmill [2023-05-14]

Chris Allen

Post Mill, Duck End, Finchingfield [2007-08-05] - HD

Jo and Steve Turner

Finchingfield [1989-05-00] - HD

Martin Addison

Windmill, Finchingfield [2013-06-09] - HD

Bikeboy

Finchingfield post mill [2011-09-14]

Richard Green

Finchingfield Post Mill [2010-06-20] - HD

PAUL FARMER

Finchingfield post Windmill, back [2008-01-16]

Oxyman

Finchingfield post Windmill, side [2008-01-16]

Oxyman

Finchingfield post Windmill [2008-01-16]

Oxyman

Finchingfield From The Air [1995-09-00]

Martin Addison

Windmill at Finchingfield [2005-06-19]

Christine Matthews

Geograph images are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence
Listed Building, Grade II: THE WINDMILL (listed 1953-05-02)

Essex Countryside references

Wikipedia entry

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Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman
Duck End post mill
Photos: (1) Farries 1 (a) disused with sails (2) Farries 4 (a) undergoing repairs in 1940s (3) Freese (a) close-up of morticed wooden poll end (4) NMR (a) derelict with 4 sails, August 1932 (b) disused but complete except for shutters, n.d. Appears to be magazine cutting (c-d) under repair, 1935 (same view as Farries (e-h) as restored with dummy sails (i) derelict with 4 sails (5) UOK (MC) (a-b) derelict with 4 sails, Sept 1934 (c) under repair, Sept 1935 (d) ditto, May 1936 (e) as preserved, May 1942 (6) ERO (a-h) derelict with 4 sails (i) derelict with 4 sails, July 1930 (j) undergoing repairs with body already reboarded, 1930s/40s (7) TC (a) disused with sail frames (b) disused with sail frames, 20th August 1921 (8) Col.l (a) derelict with 4 sails (9) ECC (DEW) (a) preserved, 1990s, with authentic sails and new wooden poll end (10) Turpin (a) as preserved, late 1970s (11) ERO (FC) (a-b) preserved with damaged sails, mid-C20 (c-f) disused with four sails (g) disused with four sails, 1920 (h) derelict with four sails (i) derelict with four sails, September 1934 (j) derelict with four sails, 1930 (k) under repair, mid-C20
News item: Windmill photos by Alan Derwent Caston (18/3/10)
News item: Finchingfield windmill features on village interactive CD-ROM (27/7/04)
News item: Image of Finchingfield (23/2/03)

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Images from Historic England - hover over image to see copyright info, and to enable zoom
The disused Finchingfield Windmill, without its sails, seen from The Causeway to the north
Finchingfield Windmill, Duck End, Finchingfield, Braintree, Essex
1980 - Photograph (35mm Slide)
The disused Finchingfield Windmill, without its sails, seen from The Lynch footpath to the south
Finchingfield Windmill, Duck End, Finchingfield, Braintree, Essex
1980 - Photograph (35mm Slide)
The Windmill
Duck End, Finchingfield, Braintree, Essex, CM7 4NA
24 Jun 2002 - Photograph (Digital)
From the Images of England project
A man working on the sails of the delapidated post mill at Finchingfield
Finchingfield Windmill, Duck End, Finchingfield, Braintree, Essex
Sep 1935 - Photograph (Negative)
A view from the south of a thatched cottage known as The Lynch, with the sails of Finchingfield Windmill beyond
The Lynch, Duck End, Finchingfield, Braintree, Essex
1930s - 1940s - Photograph (Negative)
International Mill Database Entry:
id 48955
name Duck End post mill
drive power recent windmill
drive type recent sails
mill type post mill
special construction roundhouse
function type grain mill
condition type not functional
map location 51.9697,0.45217
country United Kingdom
state England
county Essex
city Finchingfield
zip CM7 4NA
logo detail
sails shuttered


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