Bocking windmill, Essex

Bocking #2446

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(51.90432,0.56144)

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post mill function:Corn mill - restored

Opening times - WARNING : may not be up to date

opening times	charges	website	notes
12/4/26 11:30-15:30 26/4/26 11:30-15:30 4/5/26 10:45-15:45 17/5/26 11:30-15:30 7/6/26 11:30-15:30 28/6/26 11:30-15:30 12/7/26 11:30-15:30 2/8/26 11:30-15:30 16/8/26 11:30-15:30 30/8/26 11:30-15:30 13/9/26 11:30-15:30 27/9/26 11:30-15:30 11/10/26 11:30-15:30 25/10/26 11:30-15:30 Please verify before visiting	adult £2	https://www.braintree.gov.uk/bockingwindmill/	No parking on site, but on road nearby

opening times

charges

website

notes

12/4/26 11:30-15:30
26/4/26 11:30-15:30
4/5/26 10:45-15:45
17/5/26 11:30-15:30
7/6/26 11:30-15:30
28/6/26 11:30-15:30
12/7/26 11:30-15:30
2/8/26 11:30-15:30
16/8/26 11:30-15:30
30/8/26 11:30-15:30
13/9/26 11:30-15:30
27/9/26 11:30-15:30
11/10/26 11:30-15:30
25/10/26 11:30-15:30

Please verify before visiting

adult £2

https://www.braintree.gov.uk/bockingwindmill/

No parking on site, but on road nearby

Ipswich Journal, 14 January 1769

To be SOLD at BOCKING in Essex.
ALL that WINDMILL, very pleasantly and commodiously situated for Business, in BOCKING aforesaid, opposite the Causeway there, (with a good Pair of French Stones, and all the Going Gears, Scales, Weights, Utensils, and Implements belonging to the said Mill, all in very good Condition;) likewise a very good Horse Boulting-Mill: And also a convenient Messuage or Tenement, consisting of three Rooms on a Floor, with a Stable and other Outhouses, adjoining and belonging to the said Mill; all Freehold. and in good Repair, and now in the Occupation of Abraham Grigson.
For Particulars enquire of the said Abraham Grigson.

Signboard says:

Bocking Post Mill: Dating from 1721, the mill was auctioned in December 1829, moved up the hill from near the bakehouse, and re-erected here in 1830. It worked commercially until c1924 and to special order until c1930. The last miller was Henry Hawkins. The mill is owned and maintained by Braintree District Council. {The Friends of Bocking Windmill 1996}.

Bocking

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2446 - Church Street Windmill, Bocking (has photos)

Muggeridge Collection photos

537738 - Bocking Ch. Str. 3/4 Rear Ex.
537739 - Bocking Ch. Str. Tailpole. Essex.
537740 - Bocking Ch. Str. Front Essex.
537741 - Bocking Ch. Str. 3/4 Front Ex.
537742 - Bocking Ch. Str., 3/4 Rear. Ex. Against Sun
537743 - Bocking Church Street 3/4-Front. Essex.
537744 - Bocking Church Street 3/4-Front, Essex.
537745 - Bocking Church Street 3/4-Rear. Obl. Essex
537746 - Bocking Church Street. 3/4-Front. Obl. Essex.

[London Picture Archive]

Bocking Windmill - tentering governor [2023-05-14]

id	48929
name	Bocking post mill
drive power recent	windmill
drive type recent	sails
mill type	post mill
special construction	roundhouse
function type	grain mill
condition type	not functional
map location	51.90436,0.56143
country	United Kingdom
state	England
county	Essex
municipality	Braintree
city	Bocking
zip	CM7 5LQ
street	Church Street
description	A post mill with a 2-storey roundhouse, built in 1721 and moved to its present site in 1829
logo detail
sails	cloth;shuttered

Bocking windmill, Essex 🌍

Bocking #2446

Opening times - WARNING : may not be up to date

Muggeridge Collection photos

Essex Countryside references