West Kingsdown windmill, Kent 🌍


West Kingsdown #2661

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Smock mill function:Corn mill - restored

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Has opened previously, but current opening plans unknown No known website providing opening details
West Kingsdown, 7/4/2007 © Rob Cumming
West Kingsdown, 1986 © Rob Cumming
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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2661 - Smock mill, West Kingsdown

Windmill, Pell's Lane [2007-08-22]

Brian Green

Windmill [2005-06-18]

Chris Shaw

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Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman
smock mill
Photos: (1) Wailes (DSW) (a) great spur wheel and stone nut (2) Coles Finch (a) w/o (b) w/o (also showing post mill) (3) Batten (a) disused with sails (4) UOK (DWM) (a) in good condition, but sail frames and fan missing, March 1937 (5) UOK (DC) (a) w/o, early C20 (b+) as preserved, 1930s (various views) (c) derelict (Times 19.11.1947) (d) derelict, 1949 (e) derelict, Kent Messenger 21.11.58 (f) derelict (Kent Messenger 27.2.1959) (g-h) under repair Times 12/4/60 (i) under repair Kentish Express 15.4.1960 (j) as preserved, 1965 (k) brakewheel, 1964 (l) spur wheel and stone nut, 1964 (m) as preserved (from Kent Life 1967) (6) Hills (a) wallower and sack hoist, May 1990 (7) de Little 2 (a) shortly after renovation in 1960 (8) NMR (a) w/o, pre-1928 (b) disused with sails, June 1932 (9) CKS (a) w/o, also shows post mill (b) w/o with post mill as CF (c) under repair, as West (d) preserved, as West (10) SL (a) with post mill as CF (b) w/o, late C19/early C20 (11) Wailes, WIE (a) w/o (12) West (a) as preserved (b) under restoration, with cap stripped of its boarding and new stock being fitted (13) Turpin (WIK) (a) as preserved, with sail frames removed for repairs (14) Adams (a) derelict with stocks (15) UOK (MC) (a-d) preserved with stocks, February 1943 (e-f) preserved with stocks, April 1950

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Kingsdown Mill
Pells Lane, West Kingsdown, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 6AU
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