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Surviving mills

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
image 		#2645   Alfriston Tower mill house converted
(50.80372,0.15280)
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2 no
image 		#2576   Angmering Tower mill  
(50.82905,-0.4655)
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3 no
image 		#2565   Arundel Tower mill house converted
(50.84791,-0.5627)
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4 no
image 		#2707   Baldslow Smock mill house converted
(50.88938,0.55831)
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5 no
image 		#1836   Barnham Tower mill was restored, but then then tragically allowed to be house converted
(50.82712,-0.6270)
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6 no
image 		#2699   Battle Smock mill house converted
(50.92248,0.48460)
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7 no
image 		#2696   Bexhill Post mill although the trestle survived till around 2009, all that now survives on site is the roundhouse wall and some millstone fragments
(50.85200,0.46061)
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8 no
image 		#2578 Hammond's Mill Billingshurst Smock mill consolidated ruins, now providing a historic feature on a recently built housing estate
(51.02303,-0.4451)
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9 no
image 		#2604   Bolney post mill reduced scale mill
(51.00715,-0.2127)
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10 #2627   Chailey Smock mill conserved
(50.97509,-0.0252)
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11 no
image 		#2626 South Common Chailey Smock mill base
(50.94051,-0.0266)
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12 #2614 Jill Clayton Post mill restored
(50.90529,-0.1479)
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13 #2615 Jack Clayton Tower mill preserved tower
(50.90495,-0.1468)
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14 #2616 Duncton Gate Mill Clayton Post mill roundhouse remains
(50.90492,-0.1467)
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15 no
image 		#2566   Climping Smock mill house converted
(50.80175,-0.5599)
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16 no
image 		#2673   Cowbeech Smock mill base converted to living accommodation
(50.90868,0.30372)
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17 #2654 New Mill Cross in Hand Post mill unrestored, and increasing worsening condition
(50.97412,0.21761)
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18 no
image 		#2652 Little Mill Cross in Hand Post mill roundhouse
(50.97379,0.21688)
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19 no
image 		#2646   Crowborough Tower mill house converted
(51.05853,0.16471)
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20 no
image 		#2687   Dallington Smock mill ruins
(50.94899,0.36204)
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21 #1870   Earnley Smock mill  
(50.77903,-0.8420)
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22 no
image 		#1869   East Wittering Tower mill  
(50.76985,-0.8713)
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23 no
image 		#2796   Eastbourne Horizontal windmill A few foundations remain of the bolting house which became a horizontal windmill.
(50.76102,0.25674)
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24 no
image 		#2650   Golden Cross Post mill roundhouse, house converted
(50.88916,0.18388)
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25 no
image 		#2663   Hailsham Post mill Roundhouse and trestle now combined into a vaguely windmill looking residential structure
(50.87274,0.26461)
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26 no
image 		#1830   Halnaker Tower mill Visually restored but empty tiled tower. Latest restoration (2019) has bricked up all the door and window openings, so there is no longer any access to the interior.
(50.87897,-0.6936)
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27 no
image 		#2683   Herstmonceux Post mill recent thorough restoration
(50.88538,0.34025)
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28 #2581   High Salvington Post mill restored and workable
(50.84863,-0.4065)
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29 no
image 		#extra5 Glynde windpump High Salvington wooden windpump restored and workable
(50.84856,-0.4062)
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30 no
image 		#2721   Hunston Smock mill base, house converted
(50.80102,-0.7839)
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31 no
image 		#2725   Icklesham Post mill conserved
(50.91283,0.68320)
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32 #2620 Oldland mill Keymer Post mill restored
(50.93020,-0.1213)
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33 no
image 		#2632   Lewes Smock mill base, house converted
(50.87275,0.00635)
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34 no
image 		#2631   Lewes Smock mill  
(50.87328,-0.0064)
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35 no
image 		#2629   Lewes Smock mill  
(50.86543,-0.0095)
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36 no
image 		#2628 Ashcombe Mill Lewes Post mill historical footings survived, which were used as the basis for a complete reconstruction based on a steel framework, to provide residential accomodation, and theoretically electricity generation.
(50.86250,-0.0226)
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37 no
image 		#2651   Lower Dicker roundhouse, house converted
(50.88386,0.20468)
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38 no
image 		#2662   Mark Cross Tower mill house converted
(51.06052,0.25968)
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39 #2658 Argos Hill Mayfield Post mill Restored
(51.03258,0.23795)
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40 no
image 		#2574   Nutbourne Manor Tower mill converted
(50.95919,-0.4659)
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41 #2640   Nutley Post mill restored open trestle mill
(51.04277,0.06838)
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42 no
image 		#1872   Pagham Tower mill  
(50.78218,-0.7356)
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43 no
image 		#2589   Partridge Green Smock mill Although much of the mill was "relocated" to Gatwick Manor in the 1960, the original smock base still survives
(50.97190,-0.3053)
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44 no
image 		#2611   Patcham Tower mill house converted
(50.86282,-0.1663)
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45 no
image 		#2659   Polegate Tower mill Conserved and regularly open to the public
(50.81461,0.24359)
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46 no
image 		#2676   Punnett's Town Smock mill  
(50.96386,0.31607)
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47 no
image 		#2639   Ringmer Post mill reerected main post, held up by concreted wooden supports
(50.88201,0.05991)
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48 no
image 		#2625   Rottingdean Smock mill conserved
(50.80587,-0.0629)
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49 #2733   Rye Smock mill dummy reconstructed on original base after fire destroyed original smock
(50.95049,0.72705)
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50 no
image 		#1871   Selsey Tower mill visual restoration
(50.73458,-0.8053)
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51 #2584   Shipley Smock mill previously restored, but after a dispute over the lease the friends group are no longer able to maintain it, nor open it to the public
(50.98487,-0.3726)
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52 no
image 		#1827 Weald and Downland museum Singleton brickyard windpump moved to museum and restored then to working order, but not actively worked
(50.90856,-0.7575)
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53 no
image 		#2636   South Malling, Lewes Post mill  
(50.88200,0.02009)
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54 no
image 		#2670   Stone Cross Tower mill restored to working order
(50.81576,0.29774)
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55 no
image 		#2674 Riseden Mill Tidebrook Post mill ruins
(51.04981,0.31211)
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56 no
image 		#2671   Warbleton Post mill base
(50.94970,0.30386)
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57 no
image 		#2669   Warbleton Smock mill base
(50.94258,0.29929)
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58 no
image 		#2582 Rock Mill Washington Smock mill house conversion
(50.91165,-0.3967)
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59 no
image 		#2610   West Blatchington Smock mill conserved and open to public
(50.84651,-0.1851)
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60 no
image 		#2577   West Chiltington Smock mill house converted
(50.95168,-0.4567)
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61 no
image 		#2728   Winchelsea Post mill Blew down in the Great Storm of 1987 - just 3 piers and millstones remain on site
(50.92583,0.70368)
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Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
image 		#extra9   Bolney smock mill millstones are set in the path by the church lych gate
2 no
image 		    Eastbourne post mill
Details [image - 2 mills]
3 no
image 		    Findon post mill
Details [info]
4 no
image 		#2706   Hastings Smock mill  
(50.86697,0.55236) (approximate location)
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5 no
image 		#2568   Littlehampton Tower mill  
(50.80393,-0.5410) (approximate location)
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6 no
image 		    Rye smock mill  
7 no
image 		#11172 Cripplegate Mill Southwater Smock mill  
(51.01626,-0.3462) (approximate location)
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8 no
image 		    Staple Cross smock mill
Details
South Eastern Gazette, 01 February 1853

TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT,

VALUABLE COPYHOLD PROPERTY, situate at Staple Cross, Sussex, held of the manor of Robertsbridge.
Consisting of a brick-built Blacksmith's Forge, with travis, let to Mr. Crittenden, at the rent of £7 per annum.
An excellent smock Windmill, drawing three pair of stones, with patent sweeps and fantail, bakehouse, stable, cart shed, piggery, and garden, with a convenient cottage, both let to Mr. Henry Richardson, at the rent of £32.
A brick-built Messuage attached to the mill, let to Mr. Piper at the rent of £4.
A convenient Cottage, [l]et to Mr. Oakes at a rent of £9.
Two Cottages, let at a rent of £8 10s. to Henry Boots and Frederick Martin,
A very superior piece of Pasture Land, containing about 3/4 of an acre, well situate for building, commanding a frontage of 156 feet, and let to Benjamin Boots, at a rent of £3; making a total rental of £63 10s.
Further particulars may be obtained of J. CLABON, Esq., Solicitor, 76, Mark-lane, London; and of WINCH and SON, Auctioneers and Estate Agents, Cranbrook, Kent, where a ground plan of the property may be seen.
9 no
image 		#2579   Sullington Post mill  
(50.91774,-0.4407) (approximate location)
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10 no
image 		  Black Down Mill Sussex
Details [story]
11 no
image 		#1822   West Ashling Combined mill  
(50.86012,-0.8536) (approximate location)
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12 no
image 		    Wisborough Green  

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