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Monument details
HER Number: | TR 26 NE 1263 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Site of former Hudson's Mill, Mill Lane, Birchington, Thanet |
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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 |
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Map Sheet: | TR26NE |
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Parish: | BIRCHINGTON, THANET, KENT |
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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Survey Company, 2021, Archaeological Evaluation of land to the side of Mill Haven, Mill Row, Birchington, Kent (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Swale & Thames Archaeological Survey Company. 2021.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. |