Beaconsfield windmill, Buckinghamshire

Beaconsfield #1832

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(51.60168,-0.6323) (approximate location)

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tower mill function:Corn mill

large fragment of this tower left in 1976, but probably entirely gone by now

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #1832 - Tower mill, Beaconsfield

Built in 1811, this tower mill ceased working in 1880. As a working mill it had 4 sails and a fantail, with an octagonal base which merged into a circular tower. After ceasing work a gale blew a sail off, after which it was run by a belt from a steam engine in a nearby shed.

By the 1930s most of the machinery had been removed. When surveyed by Arthur C Smith in 1976 it had become a ruin in the last stages of collapse, with about a third of the tower was standing with the remainder fallen into a heap of rubble.

Muggeridge Collection photos

537343 - Beaconsfield, Side, Bucks.
537344 - Beaconsfield, Front, Bucks.
537357 - Beaconsfield, Tower, Bucks.
F186242 - Ruined Mill. Beaconsfield. Bucks. (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)

Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman

tower/smock mill

Photos: (1) NMR (a) derelict, with wind-shaft and brakewheel spokes but no cap or sails; shows upper wooden section of tower (2) UOK (DWM) (a) as NMR (3) NMR (WC) (a) as NMR (and and derelict, as NMR and UOK (4) BCRALSS (a) derelict with cap and 2 sails, c1895 (b) derelict with cap and 2 sails, c1898 (5) UOK (MC) (a) tower part standing to

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London Road windmill in a derelict condition

Tower Mill, London Road, Beaconsfield, London End, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Dec 1934 - Photograph (Negative)

Beaconsfield windmill, Buckinghamshire 🌍

Beaconsfield #1832

Muggeridge Collection photos