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Coxheath Windmill
Smiffy:
First Berkshire, then Kent and now Essex - that mill certainly gets around a bit ;D
bertroid:
--- Quote from: Smiffy on October 29, 2019, 09:34:17 PM ---Looking at the old site you're quite correct, I'd forgotten all about it! However, I do state incorrectly there that the map is from 1856 when it is actually from 1819.
Of the post mill, the Mill's Archive says that "It is not clear why this has been filed with the Berkshire material" and states that it is in Kent. I can't find a Cox Heath in Berkshire but there is a Cox Green so perhaps this is where there's been some confusion.
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I get asked to ID a lot of MA material but not this one. Just found the painting on google, and it's been re-identified as Warley Common, Essex. See [size=78%]https://www.rct.uk/collection/734037[/size]
Smiffy:
Looking at the old site you're quite correct, I'd forgotten all about it! However, I do state incorrectly there that the map is from 1856 when it is actually from 1819.
Of the post mill, the Mill's Archive says that "It is not clear why this has been filed with the Berkshire material" and states that it is in Kent. I can't find a Cox Heath in Berkshire but there is a Cox Green so perhaps this is where there's been some confusion.
bertroid:
--- Quote from: Smiffy on October 29, 2019, 06:32:32 PM ---
This map from 1819 shows a windmill in what appears to be the correct location. I've plotted it onto a somewhat later and larger scale map so that the approximate position can be ascertained. This would put it in the middle of a modern housing estate.
The Mills archive lists a mill at Coxheath, however this is a post mill and looks like it may have been earlier than the one referred to here.
https://catalogue.millsarchive.org/the-camp-at-cox-heath
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Somewhere before I've seen that map, and I suspect we've had this conversation on the old version of this site Smiffy.
It's interesting to see that there were three windmills in on or just off this road all dating from roughly the same time. There was another at Haste Hill, Boughton Monchelsea, and another which was burned down during the completion of its building around 1825. One wonders if there was an angry watermiller running around with fire in the middle of the night around here!
The picture on the Mills Archive by Paul Sandby is of another Cox Heath in Berkshire.
Smiffy:
This map from 1819 shows a windmill in what appears to be the correct location. I've plotted it onto a somewhat later and larger scale map so that the approximate position can be ascertained. This would put it in the middle of a modern housing estate.
The Mills archive lists a mill at Coxheath, however this is a post mill and looks like it may have been earlier than the one referred to here.
https://catalogue.millsarchive.org/the-camp-at-cox-heath
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