Chillenden windmill, Kent 🌍

Chillenden #2780

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Post mill function:Corn mill - was restored, but destroyed in storm Nov 2003. Rebuilt May-Aug 2005.

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Chillenden, 7th April 2007 © Rob Cumming

Book cover: Kent windmills and watermills, published 2012
Watercolours by Tom Burnham

Mill ID 2780

Chillenden, , 1988
© Ken Forrest Collection

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2780 - Post mill, Chillenden

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Muggeridge Collection photos

538259 - Chillenden. Front. Kent.
538260 - Chillenden Side Kent
538261 - Chillenden Central Post. Kent
538262 - Chillenden 3/4Front From Field. Kent.
538263 - Chillenden. 'Front' From Approach. Kent.
538264 - Chillenden. 3/4 Front. Kent.
538265 - Chillenden 3/4 Rear. Kent.
538266 - Chillenden Tailpole Kent.
538267 - Chillenden. 3/4-Front. Kent.
538268 - Chillenden. Trestle. Obl. Kent.
538269 - Chillenden. Bolter. Kent.
538270 - Chillenden. Brake-Wheel. Obl. Kent.
538271 - Chillenden. Wheel On T/P. Obl. Kent.
538272 - Chillenden. Sack-Hoist. Kent.
538273 - Chillenden. 3/4-Front. Kent.
538274 - Chillenden. 3/4-Rear. Kent.
538275 - Chillenden. Kent. Ratchet On Sweep. Obl.
538276 - Chillenden. Brake Connection. Kent.
538277 - Chillenden. Brakewheel. Obl. Kent.
538278 - Chillenden. Stones Etc. Obl. Kent.
538279 - Chillenden. Wh. On T/P. Obl. Kent.
F183675 - Chillenden., Kent 12 Jul 1966. (colour slide)
F183676 - Chillenden., Kent 12 Jul 1966. (colour slide)
F183677 - Chillenden., Kent 12 Jul 1966. (colour slide)
F186337 - Chillenden. Kent. Aug. 1932 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)

Chillenden post mill [2009-09-21]

Looking down the step ladder of Chillenden post mill [2009-09-21]

Chillenden post mill [2009-09-21]

View from Chillenden windmill [2009-09-21]

Chillenden post mill [2009-09-21]

Footpath to Chillenden windmill [2009-09-21]

Looking across the fields to Chillenden windmill [2009-09-21]

Chillenden Windmill, Chillenden, Kent [2009-07-04]

Oast House Archive

Chillenden post mill [2009-04-21]

Lichen covered sign for Chillenden mill [2008-01-27]

Chillenden post mill [2008-01-27]

White sails in the Sunrise [2007-03-11]

Jeremy Smallwood

Chillenden Post Mill [2007-01-03]

Chillenden Mill [2007-01-03]

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

Listed Building, Grade II*: CHILLENDEN WINDMILL (listed 1963-10-11)

Heritage Lottery Fund - £726000 : 20 Apr 1999 : Kent Windmills Restoration Programme

A Kent County Council responsibility: Chillenden
Millennium Collection of Kent Mill Photographs: Chillenden Mill
ITV News: Chillenden
Maidstone museum photo archive Chillenden
Maidstone museum photo archive Chillenden
Maidstone museum photo archive Chillenden
Maidstone museum photo archive Chillenden
Wikimedia Commons Chillenden_Mill_gate_at_Chillenden_Kent_England.jpg
Wikimedia Commons Chillenden_Mill_at_Chillenden_Kent_England_2.jpg
Wikimedia Commons Chillenden_Mill_at_Chillenden_Kent_England_1.jpg
Illustrations from English Windmills by I M Batten (1930), The Architectural Press for The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings EWv1_Chillenden.jpg
Illustrations from Watermills and Windmills, William Coles Finch (1933), London, C W Daniel Company WW_Chillenden.jpg

Wikipedia entry

Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman

post mill

Photos: (1) de Little (a) as preserved (2) NMR

News item: Book: Kent Windmills & Watermills (30/7/12)

News item: Chillenden windmill back to full glory (20/8/05)

News item: Dover Council agree grant for Chillenden windmill (23/2/05)

News item: Chillenden Mill will be rebuilt on original site (3/4/04)

News item: Kent windmills leaflet for 2004 (7/1/04)

News item: Chillenden - more details and pictures (3/1/04)

News item: Chillenden remains packed up for storage (15/12/03)

News item: Chillenden windmill destroyed in storm (4/12/03)

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Chillenden Windmill, Goodnestone, Chillenden, Dover, Kent

May 1936 - Photograph (Negative)

A view of Chillenden Windmill, showing the post mill intact

Chillenden Windmill, Goodnestone, Chillenden, Dover, Kent

Apr 1929 - Photograph (Nitrate Negative)

A view of Chillenden Windmill, showing the post mill intact

Chillenden Windmill, Goodnestone, Chillenden, Dover, Kent

Apr 1929 - Photograph (Nitrate Negative)

Chillenden Windmill

Goodnestone, Dover, Kent, CT3 1PS

2 Sep 2005 - Photograph (Digital)

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International Mill Database Entry
name	Chillenden Windmill
id	48939
description	An open-trestle post mill with two pairs of stones, built in 1868 and rebuilt in 2005 after being blown down in a storm
drive power recent	windmill
drive type recent	sails
mill type	post mill
function type	grain mill
condition type	technique
map location	51.24217,1.249405
country	United Kingdom
state	England
county	Kent
municipality	Canterbury
city	Chillenden
zip	CT3 1PS
logo detail	windmill
sails	shuttered
luffing	tailpole
picture	137413
photographer name	Willem van Bergen
Website link	Wikipedia
construction year	1868
picture name	GB-ChillendenKent_01_ID48939_WillemVanBergen_1975.JPG
picture url	https://milldatabase.org/image/137413/download

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