Stocks Mill Wittersham Kent England UK
Stocks Mill, Wittersham, Kent's tallest post mill, built in 1781 and situated one mile from the village of Wittersham near to Tenterden. The mill has a small museum and is opened and manned by our team of volunteers; probably built around 1781, it was named after the village stocks that stood nearby. The mill could be older and may have been moved from Stone in Oxney, with the date 1781 carved into the main post denoting its re-erection. The Mill House was at one time used as the parish Poorhouse. The mill was last worked circa 1900, and was then preserved in private mill was repaired in 1958, and in 1968 a new stock and pair of sails was fitted by the millwright Derek Ogden. In 1980 the mill was acquired by Kent County Council The mill underwent a restoration programme starting in 2002 and partly funded by the National Lottery, which included two new sails among other work. Some of the milling machinery which had been removed over the years was recreated and the mill was reopened to the public in 2004. Stocks Mill is a post mill on a single storey roundhouse. It has four Spring sails mounted on a wooden windshaft with a [cast iron] poll end. This carries a 8 feet 9 inches ( m) diameter wooden Head Wheel with 120 cogs, and a 7 feet 9 inches ( m) diameter Tail Wheel. The mill drove two pairs of millstones.
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