Bexhill windmill, Sussex 🌍


Bexhill #2696

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Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

Hoad's Mill: Post mill function:Corn mill - although the trestle survived till around 2009, all that now survives on site is the roundhouse wall and some millstone fragments

Mill ID 2696
Bexhill, , c1930s
© Alan Caston collection
Mill ID 2696
Bexhill, , c1930s
© Alan Caston collection
Mill ID 2696
Bexhill, , c1930s
© Alan Caston collection
[Heritage image - clean]

Entry in Mills Archive database - #2696 - Downs Mill, Bexhill (has photos)

Collapsed in 1965, leaving only the base.

[English Heritage]

Muggeridge Collection photos

Remains of Downs windmill [2019-09-12] - HD

N Chadwick

Remains of Downs windmill [2019-09-12] - HD

N Chadwick

The site of the old mill in Bexhill [2019-07-05] - HD

Shazz

The Down Mill in 1964 [1964-12-22]

john bristow

Remains of The Downs Windmill, Windmill Park, Sidley, East Sussex [2008-10-25]

Oast House Archive

Remains of a windmill, Bexhill-on-Sea [2008-01-16]

Bill Johnson

(6) Geograph images are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence
Listed Building, Grade II: REMAINS OF THE DOWNS WINDMILL (listed 1949-05-11)

News item: L S Lowry at Bexhill, and Oldland Sweeps (10/8/07)

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Images from Historic England - hover over image to see copyright info, and to enable zoom
A young boy looks up towards the sails of Down Windmill
Down Windmill, Gunter's Lane, Bexhill, Rother, East Sussex
Jun 1934 - Photograph (Negative)
Remains Of The Downs Windmill
Gunters Lane, Bexhill, Rother, East Sussex
21 Nov 1999 - Photograph (Digital)
From the Images of England project
International Mill Database Entry
name Downs Mill
id 15852
description Piers and part of the brick built roundhouse only
drive power recent none
drive power originally windmill
mill type post mill
special construction roundhouse
function type grain mill
condition type remains
map location 50.85201,0.460615
country United Kingdom
state England
county East Sussex
municipality Bexhill-on-Sea
city Bexhill-on-Sea
zip TN39 4UD
street Old Mill Park
logo detail windmill_nophoto
sails shuttered
luffing tailpole


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