West Mersea
#2485
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0.91969)
Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill
Post mill function:Corn mill
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Roundhouse, large, single storey, no trestle.
Fine pargetted picture of the mill on the mill house.
Millstones incorporated into gateway wall.
Entry in Mills Archive database -
#2485 - Post mill, West Mersea
Muggeridge Collection photos
Essex Countryside references
- Jan 69:
p45 Readers Forum: photo and letter about West Mersea post mill
post millPhotos: (1) Farries 1 (a) fitting of new windshaft, c1892 (b) w/o (2) Farries 4 (a) w/o (3) Essex Countryside, 1960s (exact date of issue not noted) (a) w/o, middle distance (4) Wailes (EW) (a) dismantling or fitting of windshaft (5) UOK (MC) (a) surviving roundhouse, May 1942 (6) ERO (a) fitting of new wind-shaft, as Farries (7) TC (a) fitting of new windshaft, as elsewhere (8) WMM (a) w/o (9) ERO (FC) (a-i) w/o (j) w/o (retouched and blurred, mid-distance) (k-l) windshaft being removed or fitted (m) with fan still on but timber (one of the stocks?) leaning against front of mill with ropes and cables going from it; is this during the removal/fitting of windshaft? (n) surviving roundhouse, May 1942 (o) surviving roundhouse, April 1969 (p) surviving roundhouse, March 1970
International Mill Database Entry:
| id |
59608 |
| name |
West Mersea post mill |
| drive power recent |
none |
| drive power originally |
windmill |
| mill type |
post mill |
| special construction |
roundhouse |
| function type |
grain mill |
| condition type |
no technique |
| use today |
storage space |
| map location |
51.78207,0.91969 |
| country |
United Kingdom |
| state |
England |
| county |
Essex |
| municipality |
Colchester |
| city |
West Mersea |
| street |
Mill Lane |
| description |
Surviving roundhouse of a former post mill, serving as a storage space |
| logo detail |
 |
| sails |
shuttered |
