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Surviving mills

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
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#2398 Bragg's Mill Ashdon post mill under restoration
2 #2393   Aythorpe Roding post mill restored
3 no
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#2451   Belchamp Otten Tower mill demolished 1958 - some timbers may still be on site
4 no
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#2450   Belchamp Walter Post mill conserved roundhouse with trestle
5 #2446   Bocking post mill restored
6 no
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#2445   Braintree Post mill quarter fragment of roundhouse wall with 2 piers remains embedded in garden wall
7 no
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#2459   Bulmer Smock mill base survives
8 no
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#2349 South Mill Clavering tower mill tower used as store, no machinery
9 no
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#2350 North Mill Clavering tower mill house converted
10 no
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#2375   Debden tower mill house converted
11 #2430   Finchingfield post mill restored
12 #2428   Great Bardfield tower mill house converted
13 no
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#2689   Great Burstead Post mill 4 high brick piers and 2 large timbers on high mill mound, very overgrown within woodland
14 #2410   Great Dunmow Tower mill house converted
15 no
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#2405   Great Easton Post mill Minor remains of roundhouse, some brickwork visible.
16 no
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#2290   Great Holland Smock mill derelict base
17 no
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#2414   Great Sampford Smock mill base house converted
18 no
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#2434   Great Waltham Post mill base converted in to 4 rooms for the adjacent Windmill Inn
19 #2453 North mill Halstead smock mill base remains
20 no
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#2371   Henham post mill foundations remain
21 #2407   High Easter post mill roundhouse and trestle remain, house converted
22 #2380   High Ongar smock mill base house converted
23 no
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#2422   Horndon on the Hill Post mill piers, cross trees and roundhouse floor in front garden. Used as pergola
24 no
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#2412   Ingatestone post mill conserved
25 no
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#2417   Little Dunmow post mill house converted octagonal roundhouse
26 no
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#2415   Mashbury Smock mill base of small smock mill, used as a garage
27 no
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#2357   Matching post mill roundhouse remains
28 #2677   Mountnessing post mill restored
29 no
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#2679 Baker Street Orsett smock mill restored
30 no
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#2682   Orsett post mill base only
31 #2518   Ramsey post mill conserved
32 #2709   Rayleigh tower mill restored tower with cap and sails, but no machinery
33 no
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#2369   Saffron Walden small smock mill part of foundation in garden of sunken mill house
(52.01630,0.24563) (approximate location)
34 #2359   Stansted Mountfitchet tower mill restored
35 #2691   Stock tower mill restored
36 #2447   Terling smock mill house converted
37 #2404   Thaxted tower mill restored
38 no
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#2512   Thorpe Le Soken Post mill house converted roundhouse
39 no
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#2461   Tiptree tower mill house converted
40 no
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#2478   Tollesbury Smock mill Low base of small square drainage smock mill with well in middle
(51.78069,0.86606) (approximate location)
41 #2441   Toppesfield tower mill underwent house conversion summer 2007
42 no
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#2525   Walton on the Naze Post mill brick piers under yacht club building
43 no
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#2485   West Mersea Post mill Roundhouse, large, single storey, no trestle.
44 no
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#2686   West Tilbury Smock mill base as garden store
45 #2378   White Roding tower mill conserved, no machinery
46 no
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#2400   Wimbish Smock mill base house converted
47 no
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#2392   Wimbish Smock mill base house converted

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
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#2431   Bardfield Saling Post mill  
(51.90687,0.45680) (approximate location)
2 no
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    Black Notley
Details

London Courier and Evening Gazette, 14 January 1825

PUBLIC SALES.
GARRAWAY'S, JAN. 13.
Mr. W. W. SIMPSON.
...
A Post Windmill, situate at Black Notley, near Braintree, 21 feet by 13 feet, containing three floors, a twelve-yard sail, driving two pair of French stones, with stowage for fifty loads of wheat, stable, work-shop, cart-shed, workman's cottage, dwelling-house, and garden, containing one rood, planted with fruit trees; mill, machinery, and implements included in the purchase, land tax 14s. per annum; sold by direction of the proprietor, Mr. S. Bright - 990l.
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 14 January 1825
A Freehold Estate, situate on an eminence in the village of Black Notley, one mile from Braintree, Essex; comprising a post windmill, in good repair, 21 feet by 13; also a dwelling-house, a workman's cottage, garden, containing nearly one rood, stable, workshop, and cart shed; all the machinery and going gear included in the purchase; Land-tax 14s - 999l.

3 no
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#2363   Bobbingworth Post mill Mill house, and one millstone remain
(51.72576,0.20224) (approximate location)
4 no
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#11188   Burnham on Crouch Post mill  
(51.62821,0.81163) (approximate location)
5 #extra10   Chelmsford small windpump  
6 no
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#extra31   Chigwell Row  
7 no
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#12279   Galleywood Smock mill  
(51.69757,0.46335) (approximate location)
8 no
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#13796   Great Clacton Post mill  
(51.80226,1.15511) (approximate location)
9 no
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#2364   High Laver Post mill nothing but the mill mound survives
(51.75348,0.21083) (approximate location)
10 no
image
#14303   Kelvedon Hatch smock mill  
(51.6655,0.27187) (approximate location)
11 no
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#2416   Little Bardfield Smock mill  
(51.96367,0.40604) (approximate location)
12 no
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#2370   Little Laver Composite mill  
(51.75933,0.23431) (approximate location)
13 no
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#2367   Moreton Post mill  
(51.74969,0.22079) (approximate location)
14 no
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#9526 Cutmaple Mill Sible Hedingham post mill  
(51.96139,0.59807) (approximate location)
15 no
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#2667   South Ockendon smock mill collapsed 1977 - now no remains
(51.52403,0.31071) (approximate location)
16 no
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#10811   Southminster Smock mill  
(51.66499,0.83547) (approximate location)
17 no
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#2444   Springfield Smock mill  
(51.73129,0.50954) (approximate location)
18 no
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#2362   Stanford Rivers Post mill  
(51.70169,0.19094) (approximate location)
19 no
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#extra27   Stansted post mill  
20 no
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    West Thurrock
Details
Essex Standard, 04 July 1856
VALUABLE FREEHOLD STEAM & WIND MILLS
With an important frontage upon the Bank of the River,
Near Grays, opposite Greenhithe,
With Wharf and Creek for Shipping the Corn and Flour, and about 13 ACRES of LAND.
Messrs. Daniel Smith & Son
Will SUBMIT to AUCTION, at the Mart, London, on FRIDAY, July 18th at Twelve o'clock, the
THE WEST THURROCK FLOUR MILLS, in the occupation of Mr. NOKES, subject to two years' notice, at a low rent. They comprise, exclusive of the Windmill, a spacious 3-floor Mill, worked by a powerful steam-engine, and altogether 7 pairs of stones; with a Dwelling-House and 2 neat Cottages, Stabling, Cart-lodge, Corn, Sack, and Coal Rooms; also a Garden, Orchard, a small Salt Marsh, and a Close of Arable LAND, about 13 Acres; with an Entrance Lodge, and private approach from the Turnpike Road, within 3 miles of the Grays Railway Station.
The adjoining valuable Farm is also for Sale.
Particulars may be had at the Inns at Grays, Gravesend, Romford, &c.; at the Mart; of T. W. BUDD, Esq., Solicitor, 33, Bedford Row; and of Messrs. DANIEL SMITH and SON, Land Agents, in Waterloo Place, Pall Mall.


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