Windmills in Essex Countryside Magazine 🌍

"Essex Countryside" magazine

NB. This is an incomplete analysis, based merely on the issues of the magazine that I could easily consult. The following issues were also checked, but no references to mills found:

• 1966 - Jan,March,April
• 1967 - April
• 1968 - Nov
• 1971 - March
• 1972 - Dec
• 1973 - Sept,Nov
• 1974 - Sept
• 1978 - May
• 1984 - March,July,Dec
• 1985 - March,April,Aug,Dec
• 1986 - May,Dec

Mill articles and mentions

• April/May 1958 vol 6 no 25: p199 readers forum letter from R E Batten giving a history of the still working Terling windmill, accompanied by a photo of the mill [2447]

• June/July 1958 vol 6 no 26: pcover picture St Osyth's mill

• June/July 1958 vol 6 no 26: p222 illustration of Blue Mills, Witham

• August/Sept 1958 vol 7 no 27: p16-17 Preserving a Heritage by L A Leaver, County Planning Advisor. Article about the 5 county owned windmills of Upminster, Aythorpe Roding, Stock, Mountnessing, and Finchingfield. Mentions work at Finchingfield to replace weatherboarding and structural timber, plus 2 pairs of sails. Mountnessing has a recent pair of sails. Aythorpe Roding had had a request to make it available for house conversion. Stock had a new pair of sails, and consideration of replacing the fantail was taking place. Upminster will get a rebuilt gallery, and derelict buildings cleared away from around the mill. Accompanied by photos of Aythorpe Roding, and Stock [2653] [2393] [2691] [2677] [2430]

• August/Sept 1958 vol 7 no 27: p31 photo of Stambridge Mills, Rockford (a riverside mill), entry in photo competition

• August/Sept 1958 vol 7 no 27: p32 photo competition inviting photos of Essex bridges, mills, and water scenes

• August/Sept 1958 vol 7 no 27: p38 correction of the mills illustrated in the previous issue

• October/November 1958 vol 7 no 28: p76 a complimentary quote from Leytonstone Express and Independent praising the article on windmills in the previous issue

• December/January 1958/9 vol 7 no 29: p109-112 Map of Essex: description of the map notes that an attempt has been made to show the best of the remaining windmills, and map indeed shows windmills symbols for Finchingfield, South Ockenden, Terling, Ramsey, White Riding, Aythorpe Roding, Stansted, Stock, Great Saling, Bocking, Inworth

• December/January 1958/9 vol 7 no 29: p126 letter about Blue Mills, Witham

• December/January 1958/9 vol 7 no 29: p127 letter by new owners of 'Lytchgate', High Roding, asking about High Roding post mill, which stood in what is now their garden

• February/March 1959 vol 7 no 30: p164 letter and sketch of the mill at St Osyth's

• February/March 1959 vol 7 no 30: p170 request for info on Straits mill, Bocking

• April/May 1959 vol 7 no 31: p201 photo of Fullbridge mill, Maldon

• April/May 1959 vol 7 no 31: p204 letter asking for help tracing the wind and watermills at Birchanger [7944]

• April/May 1959 vol 7 no 31: p210 mention of The Upminster Story, book 6 about the windmill [2653]

• June/July 1959 vol 7 no 32: p article on the Royal Gunpowder mills at Waltham Abbey

• Sept/October 1959 vol 7 no 33: p294 2 letters following up on the previous issue's article on Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder mills

• December 1959, vol 8 no 35: p28 illustration of Henry Winstanley's house at Littlebury, with a windmill in the grounds. Description of Henry's London theatre which was "known by the windmill on top of it"

• December 1959, vol 8 no 35: p38-9 photo of Croxton's mill, Little Waltham

• Aug 63: p449 Readers Forum: some details of Barling Magna smock mill; request for info about a windmill near Collier Row/Como Street, Romford; picture postcard of Waltham Abbey post mill [2739]

• Dec 64: p112 Readers Forum: location of Chadwell Heath mill; recollections of Barking mill; old photo of Wimbish smock mill

• Dec 64: p114 news of demolition of Moreton mill; photo and details of mill between Little Saling and Bardfield (in advanced state of decay) [2367]

• May 66: p517 Readers Forum: memories of Barling windmill [2739]

• June 67: p628 article "Stock's fine tower mill" by Sam Johns (number 1 in the series 'The windmills of Essex') [2691]

• July 67: p719 photo of Finchingfield post mill [2430]

• July 67: p727 article "Billericay's derelict post mill" by Sam Johns describing the remains of the mill which collapsed in 1928 (number 2 in the series 'The windmills of Essex')

• April 68: p45 Readers Forum: details of the two demolished windmills in Galleywood, with a photo of one of them (the smock mill on London Hill).

• Oct 68: p54 Letters in brief: notes plans to repair the mill at Tiptree [2461]

• Jan 69: pFront cover Gibraltar mill, Great Bardfield [2428]
  

  Essex Countryside magazine cover showing the converted Gibraltar Mill at Great Bardfield, issue January 1969
  Essex Countryside

• Jan 69: p45 Readers Forum: photo and letter about West Mersea post mill [2485]

• April 69: p24-26 article "Stock Windmill" by Adrian N Jones describing the tower mill at Stock [2691]

• April 69: p39 photo of house conversion at High Easter [2407]

• April 69: p57 photo of Tiptree tower mill [2461]

• Nov 69: p40-42 article "Essex Millwrights" by R W Malster, including photos of Birch post mill, Tiptree tower mill, Terling smock mill, and Brightlingsea post mill being dismantled in 1913 [2461] [2447]

• Nov 69: p61 letters in brief: letter from son of apprentice at Billericay windmill

• Dec 69: p31 photo of Gibraltar mill, Great Bardfield [2428]

• Dec 69: p54 Readers Forum: photo and letter on Mountnessing post mill with just 2 sails [2677]

• Dec 69: p55 photos and details of Thorpe-le-Soken post mill when complete, and as a dwelling conversion [2512]

• Dec 69: p58 full page photo of Mountnessing with full set of sails [2677]

• Dec 69: p66 a note that there are working windmills still in East Anglia and S.E England

• May 70: p36 "In Constable's Country" by A Sinclair, with photos of Flatford Mill

• May 70: p62 Letter in Brief: Letter from A W Hawkes about Hatfield Peveral watermill

• April 71: p65 Readers Forum: Photo of Stapleford Abbots post mill circa 1922, in an advanced state of decay

• June 71: p81 Letters in brief: mention of Stapleford Abbots windmill

• Sept 71: p59 Readers Forum: Memories of Joe Doe, miller of Mountnessing windmill [2677]

• Sept 71: p77 Letters in brief: Letter and photo about the watermill at Garston Green, Little Hallingbury

• Dec 71: p47 photo of Mountnessing mill [2677]

• Dec 71: p55 photo of windpump at Leigh Beck Farm, Canvey Island

• Dec 71: p58 article "The mill on the hill at Moreton" by Geoffrey Tyrell, describing the post mill at Moreton which was pulled down in 1964 [2367]

• Dec 71: p72 letters in brief: A H J Spooner requesting information on Bocking post mill, Stansted tower mill, Terling smock mill, and Little Laver composite mill for a study of Essex windmills he was making [2446] [2359] [2447] [2370]

• Jan 72: p29,31 article "Thaxted windmill to be restored" by Geoffrey Tyrell, describing the work to clean and restore the mill, with a number of photos [2404]

• Jan 72: p55 photo of Felsted watermill

• Jan 72: p77 photo from 23rd September 1937 of Mountnessing mill, and accompanying letter [2677]

• May 72: p25 colour photo of Ingatestone post mill [2412]

• May 72: p34 photo of Finchingfield post mill [2430]

• May 72: p64 Readers Forum: Letter on "Sad fate of smock mills" by Alan Cordell, with details of the state of various smock mills, including Upminster, Terling, Orsett, South Ockenden, and Great Holland. Photos of Terling and Orsett. [2447] [2679] [2667] [2290] [2653]

• May 72: p64 Readers Forum: Letter on "Watermills" about the mills on the Chelmer.

• July 72: p71 Readers Forum: photo and details of the repairs being carried out on Terling smock mill (written by the owner M A Cater) [2447]

• Sept 72: p63 photo of the circular brick base of Orsett mill, now used as a store house [2682]

• Sept 72: p66 photo of Upminster smock mill, taken in 1968 [2653]

• Nov 72: p57 Readers Forum: letter and photos of White Roding tower mill in May 1937, and recently with a new cap [2378]

• Jan 73: p32 full page photo of Aythorpe Roding post mill [2393]

• Jan 73: p58 photo of Great Bardfield [2428]

• Jan 73: p64 Letters in Brief: A C Austin writes enquiring of the current state of windmills that existed in the 1930s at Bovinger, East Tilbury, Great Canfield, Great Easton, Halstead, Henham, Matching Tye, High Roding, Little Dunmow, Shrub End, West Tilbury. [2363] [2389] [2405] [2453] [2371] [2357] [2417] [2686]

• Feb 73: p62 Readers Forum: Letter by F Hollinghurst, about Rayleigh windmill, with 1890 photo by Mr W F Gilson [2709]

• March 73: p36-7 "The story of Stansted Windmill" by Alison Barnes [2359]

• March 73: p54 Readers Forum: Letter by Anthony C Austin on Great Bardfield windmill. [2428]

• April 73: p69 Readers Forum: photos of High Easter smock mill in about 1913, Hatfield Peveral post mill in about 1920, together with a letter by R W Smith appealing for photos of a list of otherwise unrecorded mills [2407]

• May 73: p48 photo of Passingford Bridge watermill

• May 73: p56 Readers Forum: Letter by A H J Spooner correcting historical details in March 73 article on Stansted windmill [2359]

• May 73: p56 Readers Forum: Letter by D Breckels (age 15) correcting March 73 article on Stansted windmill. [2359]

• May 73: p56 Readers Forum: Letter by Mrs Winfred Smith with memories of Stansted windmill [2359]

• Aug 73: pFront cover aerial view of Thaxted, showing tower mill [2404]

• Oct 73: p23 picture of Moreton post mill [2367]

• Oct 73: p44 picture of Abbey watermill, Coggeshall

• Oct 73: p45 picture of Mountnessing post mill [2677]

• Oct 73: p65 picture of Torrington tide mill

• Nov 73: p85 Readers Forum: Letter from Edna Smith expressing amazement at seeing derelict windmills in Norfolk.

• Dec 74: p23 full page picture of Finchingfield post mill [2430]

• Dec 74: p78 photo of Mountnessing mill, with caption telling of the lost of a sail in Feb 73, and subsequent restoration in Aug 74 by Lincolnshire millwrights, Thompson and Son [2677]

• July 78: p36 article "The mill at Bovinger or Bobbingworth - a parish with two names" by John May, with a watercolour illustration [2363]

• Sept 79: p60 article "Thaxted windmill restored and in full sail" by Ken Adams [2404]

• Sept 79: p61 photo for Baddow Road Mill, Chelmsford

• Oct 79: p35 photo of Coggeshall mill

• Oct 79: p40 1777 map of Little Canfield showing the windmill [2399]

• Dec 79: p65 photo of Sandford watermill

• Aug 80: p27 photo of Barnes watermill, Chelmsford

• Sept 80: p21 full page photo of Rayleigh windmill by Grahame Howe [2709]

• Aug 84: p4 "Worth Reading - mills and millers", review by W G Sidney of the 3rd book in the series "Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights" by Kenneth G Farries. Also reviews the SPAB "Mills open to the Public"

• Aug 84: p34 article "You need friends to save a windmill" by David Tyler, about the restorations and opening to the public of Mountnessing post mill. [2677]

• July 85: p14 "Worth Reading - Industry in agriculture", review by John H Boyes of the 4th volume in the series "Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights" by Kenneth G Farries. Includes a photo of South Ockendon smock mill, before its collapse. [2667]

• Sept 85: p2 advertisement by Strutt Daughters and Co selling Terling smock mill for £190,000, with photo [2447]

• Sept 85: pProperty Guide p4 describes the Old Mill, High Easter (a 1930's house conversion) for sale through Bairstow Eves at £155,000 [2407]

• Oct 85: p5 another property ad for Terling mill, this time through Malcolm Danford and Co [2447]

• Oct 85: p21 photo of Fryerning post mill [2412]

• Jan 86: p15 article "Upminster Memories" by John Boyes, with photo and mentions of Upminster smock mill [2653]

• Jan 86: p44-5 illustrated article "Tradition at mill" by Lynne Dupree about Town Mill, Stebbing, one of the few remaining working watermills in the British Isles

• March 86: p59 article "The Ghastly Miller of Billericay" by George Palmer, about Thomas Wood 1719-1783 who milled at two windmills in Billericay

• April 86: p2 advertisment by Abbots offering for sale Ramsey post mill, mill house, and coach house for £145,000 ono, with photo [2518]

• April 86: p3 Property guide: gives more details on Ramsey mill, built in 1842 [2518]

• April 86: p37 photo of Great Bardfield mill [2428]

• Aug 86: p38 photo of a pottery model of Mountnessing windmill [2677]

• Aug 86: p54 photo and description of Jim Wilkinson's turbine powered catamaran boat, capable of sailing directly into the wind

• March 88: Country homes - mills, moats and paddocks

• Oct 99: p12 historic postcard showing Upminster windmill [2653]

• Oct 99: p29-33 "There's an old mill by the stream" by Paula Short about Town Mill, Stebbing

• Oct 99: p66 News of £75,000 grant for Sandford mill, Chelmsford