Bexhill windmill, Sussex 🌍


Bexhill #2696

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Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

Post mill function:Corn mill - although the trestle survived till around 2009, all that now survives on site is the roundhouse wall and some millstone fragments

Mill ID 2696
Bexhill, , c1930s
© Alan Caston collection
Mill ID 2696
Bexhill, , c1930s
© Alan Caston collection
Mill ID 2696
Bexhill, , c1930s
© Alan Caston collection
[Heritage image - clean]

Entry in Mills Archive database - #2696 - Downs Mill, Bexhill (has photos)

Collapsed in 1965, leaving only the base.

[English Heritage]

Muggeridge Collection photos

Remains of Downs windmill [2019-09-12] - HD

N Chadwick

Remains of Downs windmill [2019-09-12] - HD

N Chadwick

The site of the old mill in Bexhill [2019-07-05] - HD

Shazz

The Down Mill in 1964 [1964-12-22]

john bristow

Remains of The Downs Windmill, Windmill Park, Sidley, East Sussex [2008-10-25]

Oast House Archive

Remains of a windmill, Bexhill-on-Sea [2008-01-16]

Bill Johnson

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Listed Building, Grade II: REMAINS OF THE DOWNS WINDMILL (listed 1949-05-11)

News item: L S Lowry at Bexhill, and Oldland Sweeps (10/8/07)

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A young boy looks up towards the sails of Down Windmill
Down Windmill, Gunter's Lane, Bexhill, Rother, East Sussex
Jun 1934 - Photograph (Negative)
Remains Of The Downs Windmill
Gunters Lane, Bexhill, Rother, East Sussex
21 Nov 1999 - Photograph (Digital)
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