Benenden windmill, Kent 🌍


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Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

Beacon Mill: Smock mill function:Corn mill - house converted

Benenden, 26/8/07 © Rob Cumming
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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2712 - Beacon Mill, Benenden (has photos)

Muggeridge Collection photos

Pullington Farm [2011-04-13]

N Chadwick

Beacon Mill, Beacon Hill, Benenden Road, Benenden, Kent [2006-09-17]

Oast House Archive

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Listed Building, Grade II: BEACON WINDMILL (listed 1952-06-09)

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Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman
Beacon Mill, smock mill
Photos: (1) Coles Finch (a) w/o (b) disused with cap, 1930s (2) West (a) derelict with cap, early 1970s (b) w/o (in 2nd edition) (3) UOK (DC) (a) derelict with cap, 1964 (b+) various photos of mill in w/o or disused with cap (4) Turpin (WIK) (a) derelict, with most of cap gone, late 1970s (5) Wailes (WIK) (a) w/o, with wooden poll end (wrongly captioned Biddenden) (6) Blythman (a) derelict with cap, 1970 (b) derelict with no sails and most of cap gone, 1979 (c) with cap frame, fan cradle windshaft and brakewheel removed and smock roofed over and weatherproofed, 1985 (7) SMS (a) derelict with sails and most of cap gone (b) close-up of exposed brakewheel (8) NMR (a) w/o, with wooden windshaft, early C20 (b) ditto, distant view, 1929 (c) disused with cap, Feb 1932 (d-e) ditto, April 1934 (9) CKS (a) w/o as CF (b) w/o, c1900 (c-d) w/o, with wooden windshaft (e) disused with cap, as CF (f) derelict with cap, 1962 (g) derelict with cap, September 1962 (h) derelict with cap, as West (10) UOK (MC) (a) disused and becoming derelict with no sails, March 1934

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A view of Beacon Mill, showing the smock mill without its sails
Beacon Mill, Rolvenden Road, Benenden, Beacon Hill, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Aug 1932 - Photograph (Nitrate Negative)
Old Smock Mill / Beacon Windmill
Old Smock Mill, Rolvenden Road, Benenden, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17 4BT
9 Jun 2003 - Photograph (Digital)
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