Benenden windmill, Kent

Benenden #2712

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Beacon Mill: Smock mill function:Corn mill - house converted

Benenden, 26/8/07 © Rob Cumming

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2712 - Beacon Mill, Benenden (has photos)

Muggeridge Collection photos

538227 - Benenden. Beacon Mill. "Side" Kent.
F186333 - Benenden. Kent. 2.8.31 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)

Pullington Farm [2011-04-13]

N Chadwick

Beacon Mill, Beacon Hill, Benenden Road, Benenden, Kent [2006-09-17]

Oast House Archive

(2) Geograph images are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence

Listed Building, Grade II: BEACON WINDMILL (listed 1952-06-09)

Rental details: Benenden, Kent
Millennium Collection of Kent Mill Photographs: Octagaonal base of Benenden 'Beacon Mill'
Maidstone museum photo archive Beneden
Illustrations from Watermills and Windmills, William Coles Finch (1933), London, C W Daniel Company WW_Benenden_disused.jpg
Illustrations from Watermills and Windmills, William Coles Finch (1933), London, C W Daniel Company WW_Benenden_working.jpg

Wikipedia entry

Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman

Beacon Mill, smock mill

Photos: (1) Coles Finch (a) w/o (b) disused with cap, 1930s (2) West (a) derelict with cap, early 1970s (b) w/o (in 2nd edition) (3) UOK (DC) (a) derelict with cap, 1964 (b+) various photos of mill in w/o or disused with cap (4) Turpin (WIK) (a) derelict, with most of cap gone, late 1970s (5) Wailes (WIK) (a) w/o, with wooden poll end (wrongly captioned Biddenden) (6) Blythman (a) derelict with cap, 1970 (b) derelict with no sails and most of cap gone, 1979 (c) with cap frame, fan cradle windshaft and brakewheel removed and smock roofed over and weatherproofed, 1985 (7) SMS (a) derelict with sails and most of cap gone (b) close-up of exposed brakewheel (8) NMR (a) w/o, with wooden windshaft, early C20 (b) ditto, distant view, 1929 (c) disused with cap, Feb 1932 (d-e) ditto, April 1934 (9) CKS (a) w/o as CF (b) w/o, c1900 (c-d) w/o, with wooden windshaft (e) disused with cap, as CF (f) derelict with cap, 1962 (g) derelict with cap, September 1962 (h) derelict with cap, as West (10) UOK (MC) (a) disused and becoming derelict with no sails, March 1934

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A view of Beacon Mill, showing the smock mill without its sails

Beacon Mill, Rolvenden Road, Benenden, Beacon Hill, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Aug 1932 - Photograph (Nitrate Negative)

Old Smock Mill / Beacon Windmill

Old Smock Mill, Rolvenden Road, Benenden, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17 4BT

9 Jun 2003 - Photograph (Digital)

From the Images of England project

International Mill Database Entry
name	Beacon Mill
id	5443
description	Cap and windshaft were removed c1980 and the mill was clad in plywood to keep out the rain; it still stands as such today, waiting to be restored
drive power recent	none
drive power originally	windmill
mill type	smock mill
special construction	octagonal; reefing stage
function type	grain mill
map location	51.06212,0.597725
country	United Kingdom
state	England
county	Kent
municipality	Cranbrook
city	Benenden
zip	TN17 4BU
street	Benenden Road
logo detail	windmill_tower
sails	shuttered
luffing	fantail
picture	137149
photographer name	Willem van Bergen
Website link	Wikipedia
shutdown	1923
floors count	1
picture name	GB-BenendenKentBeaconMill_01_ID5443_WillemVanBergen_1977.JPG
picture url	https://milldatabase.org/image/137149/download

Benenden windmill, Kent 🌍

Benenden #2712

Muggeridge Collection photos