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Listed Building, Grade II:
THE WINDMILL
(listed 1986-03-13)
Essex Countryside references
April/May 1958 vol 6 no 25:
p199 readers forum letter from R E Batten giving a history of the still working Terling windmill, accompanied by a photo of the mill
Nov 69:
p40-42
article "Essex Millwrights" by R W Malster,
including photos of Birch post mill, Tiptree tower mill, Terling smock mill, and Brightlingsea post mill being dismantled in 1913
Dec 71:
p72
letters in brief: A H J Spooner requesting information on Bocking post mill,
Stansted tower mill,
Terling smock mill,
and Little Laver composite mill for a study of Essex windmills he was making
May 72:
p64
Readers Forum: Letter on "Sad fate of smock mills" by Alan Cordell, with details of the state of various smock mills,
including Upminster, Terling, Orsett, South Ockenden, and Great Holland. Photos of Terling and Orsett.
July 72:
p71 Readers Forum: photo and details of the repairs being carried out on Terling smock mill (written by the owner M A Cater)
Sept 85:
p2 advertisement by Strutt Daughters and Co selling Terling smock mill for £190,000, with photo
Oct 85:
p5 another property ad for Terling mill, this time through Malcolm Danford and Co
Closed down in 1949, this was the last mill in Essex to work commercially using wind power;
in the early 1970s a residential conversion was carried out, retaining the largest items of
the machinery, its cap and sails; the sails, however, were removed again c1991; another
restoration was done c2010
(W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
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