Winchelsea windmill, Sussex 🌍


Winchelsea #2728

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NGR: TQ901177
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St Leonard's Mill: post mill - Blew down in the Great Storm of 1987 - just 3 piers and millstones remain on site

Signboard says:
On this site stood St. Leonard's Windmill. Destroyed in the Great Storm of 16th October 1987.
The windmill was built in 1703 on the site of the ancient Saxon church of St Leonard's on which you are now standing.
Mill ID 2728
St Leonard's Mill: Winchelsea, East Sussex, c1950-60
© T C Vickers collection
Mill ID 2728
St Leonard's Mill: Winchelsea, East Sussex, c1930s
© Alan Caston collection

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The collapsed St Leonard's Windmill, Winchelsea [1987-10-30]

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Remains of St Leonard's Windmill, Winchelsea [2008-07-10]

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