Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill
Common Mill:
smock mill
(drainage)
- small mill, for pumping - no sails remaining
Signboard
says:
The Windmill
Wandsworth Common
This is all that remains of a smock mill
constructed in the 1830s by the London and South Western Railway Company
to pump water from the cutting into a nearby lake known as the Black Sea.
William Wilson, the founder of Prices Patent Candle Company, created a
garden around the lake as part of his estate. The windmill stopped working
in 1870 when the lake was filled in.
This sign was put here to mark the 20th anniversary of the
Wandsworth Society
1991
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