St Margarets Bay windmill, Kent

St Margarets Bay #2791

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St Margaret's Bay Mill: Smock mill function:Electricity generating mill - complete, but was built as part of a residential complex from the start

The last windmill built by Holmans Bros. Drove a DC generator to produce domestic electricity.

St Margarets Bay, 1969 © Fred Atkins

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2791 - St Margaret's Bay Mill, St Margaret's-at-Cliffe

Muggeridge Collection photos

538460 - St. Margarets Bay. 3/4-Rear. Kent.

Woodland on Lighthouse Down [2011-04-21] - HD

Colin Smith

View to St Margaret's at Cliffe [2009-07-18]

Philip Halling

Looking towards the windmill from the top of the South Foreland Lighthouse [2008-03-29]

pam fray

Coast House [2005-06-21]

Hywel Williams

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Listed Building, Grade II: ST MARGARET'S BAY WINDMILL (listed 1966-08-22)

Wikimedia Commons St_Margarets_Bay_Windmill_St._Margarets_At_Cliffe_1101503_20230813_0001.jpg
Illustrations from Watermills and Windmills, William Coles Finch (1933), London, C W Daniel Company WW_St._Margaret%27s_Bay.jpg

Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman

smock mill

Photos: (1) NMR (a) w/o, May 1932 (b) w/o, Sept 1936 (c) w/o, June 1938 (2) THOC OHADSLHG (a) as preserved (3) West (a) as preserved (4) Hopkins (a) the smock tower under construction, 1929 (b) w/o, c1929 (5) Coles Finch (a) w/o (6) Turpin (WIK) (a) as preserved (6) UOK (DC) with sail frames, March 1940 (7) Proceedings of the 16th Mills Research Conference, March 2000 (a) smock tower under construction (reproduced from Hopkins)

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International Mill Database Entry
name	St Margarets Bay Windmill
id	5475
description	Octagonal smock mill built in 1929 to generate electricity for the attached house; in 1939 the dynamo was removed and the mill serves since as part of the residence
drive power recent	windmill
drive type recent	sails
mill type	smock mill
special construction	octagonal; reefing stage
function type	electricity
condition type	no technique
use today	private residence
map location	51.14213,1.3764
country	United Kingdom
state	England
county	Kent
municipality	Dover
city	St Margarets Bay
zip	CT15 6HR
street	The Front
logo detail	windmill_nophoto
sails	shuttered
luffing	fantail
Website link	Wikipedia
construction year	1929
shutdown	1939
floors count	1

St Margarets Bay windmill, Kent 🌍

St Margarets Bay #2791

Muggeridge Collection photos