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Monument details

HER Number:TR 26 NE 1263
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of former Hudson's Mill, Mill Lane, Birchington, Thanet

Summary

Site of former Hudson's Mill, Birchington. The mill is thought to have been established around 1850 and to have been demolished around 1900.


Grid Reference:TR 2971 6867
Map Sheet:TR26NE
Parish:BIRCHINGTON, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

  • FLOOR (Post Medieval - 1850 AD to 1900 AD)
  • WALL (Post Medieval - 1850 AD to 1900 AD)
  • Wall Foundation (Post Medieval - 1850 AD to 1900 AD)
  • WINDMILL (Post Medieval - 1850 AD? (at some time) to 1900 AD? (at some time))

Full description

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A former Smock Mill may have been raised in about 1850. It was working until 1891 and demolished in about 1900. The mill is shown on the Tithe map, the 1862-75 and 1897-1900 maps.

An evaluation at the site in 2021 a series of walls (brick and concrete), a rectangular underground compartment – possibly a service bay for the mill’s mechanism, an area of hard standing, a concrete surface, and two pits one of which had a concrete base. One of the pits also contained a backfill of demolition debris including concrete fragments, possibly relating to the demolition of the mill prior to 1900. (4)


Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1 (Map). SKE30964.

Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2 (Map). SKE30965.

Wikipedia, 2019, List of windmills in Kent (Website). SKE52140.

<4> Swale & Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2021, Archaeological Evaluation of land to the side of Mill Haven, Mill Row, Birchington, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE57073.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Map: Landmark. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1.
---Map: Landmark. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2.
---Website: Wikipedia. 2019. List of windmills in Kent.
<4>Unpublished document: Swale & Thames Archaeological Survey Company. 2021. Archaeological Evaluation of land to the side of Mill Haven, Mill Row, Birchington, Kent.