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William Coles Finch MICE (23 October 1864 – 6 June 1944) was a British historian and author of a number of books on Kent-related topics. He is best known for writing Watermills and Windmills , published in 1933 and reprinted in 1976, which is considered a standard work on the topic of Kent windmills .
In 1997, planning permission was applied for, and granted, to build a replica mill on the existing mill base, with the tower being used as living accommodation and a wind turbine for generating electricity. The new building was to replicate the former windmill, with five sails like the original mill had. [5]
Heswall Windmill: Tower: Mid-1980s Windmill World: Norfolk. See List of windmills in Norfolk and List of drainage windmills in Norfolk. North Yorkshire.
Horizontal windmill 1792 [310] Standing in 1809. [311] Westerham Windmill Bank Post: 1596 1610 1596 Standing in 1666, marked on maps to mid-C17th. [312] Westerham Hosey Common Mill Hosey Hill Mill 1830 [313] Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south south east of Westerham Church. [314] Burnt down, mid-1870s. [313] Westerham Farley Mill Post: 1761 [313 ...
Ripple Windmill is a Grade II listed [1] smock mill in Ringwould, Kent, England, that was built in Drellingore and moved to Ringwould in the early nineteenth century ...
In this nation more than others, "windmill" is often used to refer to what are properly termed windpumps bringing up water for agriculture. This is at least partly due to usage by windpump builders Eclipse Windmill Company (1873) and Aermotor Windmill Company (1888, the sole surviving US "windmill" manufacturer [ 1 ] ).
Keston Windmill was built in 1716. William Ashby, the Westerham millwright fitted new sails and repaired the breast of the mill in December 1836. The mill was working by wind until either 1878 [2] [3] or 1900. [4] [5] In 1955, Kent County Council placed a preservation order on the mill. [5] The mill was built to grind corn into flour.
Smock mill with fantail (Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark) Smock mill in Amsterdam Cobstone Windmill, Ibstone, Buckinghamshire. The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into ...