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Notes on Watermills and Windmills in Sussex, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1852 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 5, article, pp.267-276) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2090] & The Keep [LIB/500224] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Oldland Mill, Keymer, by I. P. Annett, published 1880 (Hassocks Amenity Associetion)

Removing a Mill Entire, by The Editor, published 1886 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 34, notes & queries, p.261) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2119] & The Keep [LIB/500252] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Life in a Sussex Windmill, by Edward A. Martin, published 1920 (118 pp., London: Allen & Donaldson) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Friston Windmill , by A. A. Evans, published February 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 1, note, p.24) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

The Vanishing Windmill, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 10, article, pp.421-425) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

Oldland Mill, Keymer, by Frederick Harrison, F.S.., published November 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 8, article, p.255) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

The Decline and Fall of the Windmill, by Arthur Beckett, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 10, article, pp.700-721) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

Queer Things about Sussex Windmills, by R. Thurston Hopkins, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 10, article, pp.722-725) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

More about Sussex Windmills, by Mary Cranfield, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 11, article, pp.775-778) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

English Windmills, Vol. 1: containing a history of their origin and development with records on mills in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, by M. I. Batten, published 1930 (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, 128 pp., The Architectural Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5927] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Old Watermills and Windmills, by R. Thurston Hopkins, published 1930 (Philip Allan) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Windmills in Sussex, by G. M. Fowell and Foord Hughes, published 1930 in Walker's Quarterly (nos. 29-30, article, 34 pp., London: Walker's Galleries) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4504] & The Keep [LIB/502337] & East Sussex Libraries

More Sussex Windmills, by Mary Cranfield, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 9, article, pp.738-744) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

Oldland Mill and Museum, by F. H. [F. Harrison], published November 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 4, note, p.127) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

At Home in a Windmill, by Eileen De Bisson, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 7, article, pp.496-498) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Oldland Mill and Museum, Keymer, Hassocks , by Frederick Harrison, published August 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 7, article, pp.197-199) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

How the Mill Worked , by Frederick Main Treglown, published August 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 7, article, pp.198-199) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Sussex Windmills in the Early Nineteenth Century: An Inventory Compiled from the First Ordnance Survey, by Arthur Henry Anderson, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 3, article, pp.180-184) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]

Windmills in Sussex: A description of the construction and operation of windmills exemplified by up-to-date notes on the still existing windmills, by Rev. Peter Hemming, M.A., published 1936 (xvii + 138 pp. & 71 photgraphic illus., London: C. W. Daniel Co.) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The long descriptive title of this book explains its object very completely. The illustrations are plentiful and good. The chapter which deals with the mechanical process of milling and with the various types of mill, gives a most interesting account of the methods used, being thorough but not too technical for the ordinary reader.
Windmills are a beautiful feature in the country scene, but the rapidity with which they are disappearing points to the time being at hand when they will have gone completely from sight. Their part in the present economy of life is already nearly absorbed by mechanical methods of another type.
Mr. Hemming is full of enthusiasm for his subject and, indeed, the whole-hearted pursuit of any one line of knowledge invariably leads to a wider circle of information. This book will interest many who may care to follow in Mr. Hemming's tracks.

The Windmills of Sussex, by H. E. S. Simmons, published 1937 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XI no. 11, article, pp.738-742; no. 12, pp.803-808) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2316][Lib 9332] & The Keep [LIB/500182]

The Windmills of Brighton, by F. G. S. Bramwell, published 1938 (reprint from the articles in Brighton and Hove Herald of 6 August and 13 August 1938, the Windmills of Brighton)

A praise-worthy collection of information about all known mills in Brighton with many illustrations including one showing the removal of Streeter's Mill (by some 70 oxen) from Regency Square to the top of Miller's Road.

Old Watermills and Windmills, by R. Thurston Hopkins, published 1938 (Philip Allan) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Lost Mills of Ashdown, by Ernest Straker, F.S.A., published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 3, article, pp.203-206) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

The Restored Mills of Sussex, by Christopher Wenlock, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 8, article, pp.514-520) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

Paper-Mills in Sussex, by Alfred H. Shorter, Lecturer in Geography, University College, Exeter, published November 1951 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 8, article, pp.169-174) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

Windmills in West Sussex: Report by County Planning Officer, by John G. Jefferson, published 1954 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5413]

The South Mill, Midhurst, by E. M. Gardner, M.A., published May 1954 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 1 & 2, article, pp.10-15) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Bex Mill in Heyshott, by E. M. Gardner, published November 1956 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 11 & 12, article, pp.182-187) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

The South Mill, Midhurst, by E. M. Gardner, published May 1957 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 13 & 14, article, pp.233-235) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Shipley Mill, published 1958 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4545]

Mill Place [near West Hoathly, but in East Grinstead parish], by R. T. Mason, published May 1962 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 9, article, pp.317-318) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233][Lib 2982] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Rowner Mill, by G. D. Johnston, published May 1965 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 5, article, pp.147-149) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Rowner Mill, by Frank W. Gregory, published November 1965 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 6, note, pp.202-203) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Gibbons Mill House, by Paul Adorian, published November 1965 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 6, note, p.203) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Polegate Windmill; souvenir guide, compiled by Lawrence Stevens, published 1969 (second edition, 34 pp., Eastbourne and District Preservation Trust) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Tottisham Mill, by G. D. J. [G. D. Johnston], published November 1969 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 4, note, p.137) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

The History of Woods Mill, by Henfrey Smail, published 1970 (pamphlet, 22 pp., The Sussex Naturalists Trust) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10793] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Bine Mill, Storrington, by G. D. Johnston, published November 1970 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 6, article, pp.190-191) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

Bine Mill, by Frank Gregory, published May 1971 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 7 and last, article, p.233) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

Windmills in the Wealden District, published c.1975 (Wealden District Council) accessible at: British Library

Windmills, by Suzanne Beedell, published 1975 (143 pp., Bracken Books, ISBN-10: 1851702318 & ISBN-13: 9781851702312)

Salvington Mill, by Worthing Museum and others, published 1976 (9 pp., Worthing Museum Publications) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library

Salvington Mill, by John Norwood, published 1976 (Worthing Museum) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Seven Sussex Windmills, by Brian Austen, published 1977 (pamphlet, 26 leaves, published by the author) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14400] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Windmills of Sussex: A Guide to Fourteen Sussex Windmills, by Brian Austen, published 1978 (32 pp., Brighton: Sabre Publishing) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502335] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Standing Windmills of West Sussex, by Richard & Richard McDermott, published August 1978 (52 pp., Betford Publications, ISBN-10: 090639600X & ISBN-13: 9780906396001) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17139] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Standing Windmills of East Sussex, by Richard & Richard McDermott, published 8 December 1978 (54 pp., Betford Publications, ISBN-10: 0906396018 & ISBN-13: 9780906396018) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502336] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Windmills of Sussex, by Martin Brunnarius, published October 1979 (xii + 211 pp. & 32 leaves of plates, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0850333458 & ISBN-13: 9780850333459) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7266] & The Keep [LIB/502208] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

In the Windmills of Sussex by Martin Brunnarius, one of our members, we have the definitive work on the mills; with their millers and millwrights who constructed and maintained them, a book which many people have long awaited.
Mr. Brunnarius has put a vast amount of work into his researches and hopefully has avoided perpetrating popular errors which certain earlier writers put into print. He has made full use of the late H.E.S. Simmons' records gathered over 40 years (These are now in the Science Museum, but Brighton Reference Library has a copy of Sussex items) and in its way this volume is also a memorial to Mr. Simmons.
Martin Brunnarius tells us also of the mechanical side of the windmill, not previously attempted in a book on Sussex mills. This is helped with clear diagrams and good photographs.
There are just over 200 illustrations some showing mills well back in last century and unfortunately no longer with us and present day mill restoration is also featured.
The men who built the mills and the millers who ran them are dealt with at length, and we read of Sydney Ashdown who operated Cross-in-Hand Mill till 1969, Archibald Dallaway - a one man rebuild of Punnetts Town Mill, and the traditional millwrights including Cooper of Henfield, Holloway of Shoreham, Neves of Heathfield, the Medhursts of Lewes and E. Hole of Burgess Hill - still at work and at present engaged on Jill at Clayton.
An excellent book and a 'must' for all windmillians and those interested in local history.

Shipley Windmill, published 1980 (pamphlet, Chichester: West Sussex County Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7512]

Windmills in Sussex: A contemporary survey, by Arthur C. Smith, published February 1980 (pamphlet, 47 pp., Stevenage Museum Publications, ISBN-10: 0950423963 & ISBN-13: 9780950423968) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7698] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Sidlesham Mill, by K. M. Newbury, published September 1981 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 20, article, p.5) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/20] & The Keep [LIB/500480]

Some Windmill Sites in Friston and Eastbourne, Sussex, by Lawrence Stevens, published 1982 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 120, article, pp.93-138) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8620] & The Keep [LIB/500307] & S.A.S. library

Storrington's Vanished Mills, by Joan Ham, published December 1982 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 3, article, pp.92-96) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8893] & The Keep [LIB/501190] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Pretty and Proud: High Salvington Mill, by Peter Casebow, published 1983 (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8753]

Nutley Windmill, by Tony Turner, published 1984 (leaflet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9029]

Tilting at wyndemylls, by Joyce T.M. Biggar, published 1984 in Ringmer History (No. 3, article, pp.36-44)

Site of a Medieval windmill west of Glynde Holt, parish of Glynde.

Portrait of a Windmill: A guide to Windmills in Kent and Sussex, by Jim Cleland with Sketches by Tina Rushton, published 1985 (Kindaim, ISBN-10: 0947972005 & ISBN-13: 9780947972004) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Childhood Memories of Polegate Wind and Water Mills, by Bertha Terry, published 1985 (12 pp., published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507958] & East Sussex Libraries

Hunston Mill, published 1986 (booklet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16594]

Information booklet about accommodation in, and history of, the mill

Nutley Windmill at Crowborough Road, Nutley, East Sussex, A Short History and Guide, by Simon Wright and Frank Gregory, published 1987 (Uckfield: Uckfield and District Preservation Society) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Jesse Pumphrey, Millwright, by Martin Brunnarius, published 1987 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 17, article, pp.27-36, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/17] & The Keep [LIB/506526]   Download PDF

The following is extracted from the day-to-day accounts of a journeyman millwright who lived and worked in and around Lewes during the first half of the nineteenth century. This is fascinating in its way, for, although it may have seemed trivia at the time, this simple record gives us today an insight into his involvement with farmers, trades people and millwrights as well as forming many links great and small in local history.

The Windmills and Millers of Brighton, by H. T. Dawes, published 1988 (issue no. 18, Sussex Industrial History, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/18] & The Keep [LIB/506526]   Download PDF

Firstly, I would like to thank Mr Frank Gregory, who read this record of local windmills, corrected my errors, and gave me useful advice. He also brought me up-to-date regarding recent restoration work on the few windmills still remaining, checked the typescript, provided some of the illustrations and suggested that the material should be published. Mr Gregory is well known for his great interest in windmills, and his practical knowledge acquired by repairing and preserving them. He also gives talks in the subject, accompanied by models he himself has constructed. Mr Edwin Hole has assisted me with his accounts of repairs and renewals carried out locally by his firm of millwrights. John and Tony Cutress, whose family for well over half a century was connected with live windmills in Brighton, have volunteered useful information.
The notes on windmills compiled by the late Mr H. E. S. Simmons from the basis of any work on local mills. For over forty years he gradually assembled thousands of pieces of information regarding windmills in Sussex and well beyond. His widow has kindly allowed me to quote extracts.
Gurney Wilson's Notebooks written mainly in the opening years of this century, and now in the Hove Reference Library, have been of interest as the author included windmills in his local jottings. I have also gathered a great deal of information from reading letters and articles in many books, magazines and newspapers, and have acknowledged my indebtedness in the references.
Mr James Gray has allowed several of his photographs to be produced. Brighton Reference Library, Frank Gregory, Peter Hill, R Harris, N E S Norris and Brighton Museum have lent photographs; Jonathan Pratty and Ray Fowler have helped with reproduction. Alice Montford typed the text and Piran Montford gave advice with computing.

For this fully revised edition the opportunity has been taken to correct some minor errors and to include additional information that became available following the publication of the first edition. Before he died in 1993, Harold Dawes had prepared a list of amendments that were to be included in any future edition. In particular he wished to acknowledge the information gained from the chapter on Falmer Windmill in Mrs Doris Williams book Falmer Parish Reflections and wished to thank Mr R Hawksley and Mr R Philpott for material they had provided following the original publication. The author's suggested amendments have been checked by Peter Hill and Malcolm Dawes and are included in this edition.
In addition details of recent developments in restoration of the mills that still exist have been included, all of the original illustrations have been enhanced, and many more copies of photographs, drawings and engravings have been added. Assistance with the reproduction of this edition was provided by Selma IvIontford and Dave Carver also provided valuable help with reproduction of the cover illustration.

Lowfield Heath Windmill, by P. J. James, published 1989 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 19, article, pp.22-33, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506526]   Download PDF

It is indeed remarkable that only two months before the worst storm in the last 200 years, Lowfield Heath Windmill was dismantled and thus saved from certain destruction. This marked the first phase in the restoration to full working order by the 'Lowfield Heath Windmill Trust', which together with a small team of volunteers have made this formidable task possible.
Lowfield Heath is of the type known as a post mill, in which the whole body of the mill is suspended on a single post. The mill body, or buck, can then be revolved about this post by levering against the tailpole, until the sails face the wind. It is interesting to note that this basic design of mill dates back to the twelfth century, and continued to be built in this fashion right up to 1868, almost to the end of the windmill era.

George Packham, Miller Extraordinary, by Maurice Packham, published September 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 7, article, pp.291-294) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

George Packham (1792-1872), son of John Packham of Shortbridge, near Fletching, was educated at Horsted Keynes Charity School and apprenticed to William Sudds of the Cliff, Lewes to become a millwright. In 1823 he went to live in France and became a friend to King Louis Philippe. Article covers the years 1708 - 1872 in France and Sussex.

Salvington Mill, by John Norwood, published 1990 (4th edition, Worthing Museum) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

William Cooper - Millwright and Engineer (1825-76), by D. H. Cox, published 1990 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 20, article, pp.2-15, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506526]   Download PDF

Windmills and watermills have been places of interest and admiration by many for a very long time. It is perhaps thanks to the landscape painter in particular that we have a record of many mills now destroyed or altered beyond recognition. However, not too much thought has been given to the men who created and improved the mills and the machinery that they contain. The name 'millwright' is well known but few details exist of their work. We can see the results of their labours but who did what and at which mill?
William Cooper was one of those millwrights. He came to Henfield in Sussex in 1854 with his wife and three children to work with James Neal in his millwright's business. .After a short partnership with Neal, W. Cooper carried on the business on his own until his death in 1876. His wife then continued the business until about 1876, with the High Street premises being sold in 1905. The site remained in much the same condition for a further 60 years or so being used in part for storage purposes. The buildings were eventually demolished in 1967 and nothing remains apart from the name which is preserved In the road leading to the Village Hall now called 'Coopers Way'.

The Punnett's Town, Heathfield, Wind Saw Mills, by J. S. P. Buckland, published 1991 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 21, article, pp.9-15, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506526]   Download PDF

The Smock Saw Mill. Wind saw mills were such rarities in England that this one earned a mention in Kelly, (1887). "At Punnetts Town is an adaptation of wind power the situation being high; the power is utilized by Samuel Piper, a builder, to drive a saw mill constructed as an ordinary wind mill."

Shipley Windmill, Built in 1879, Restored as a Memorial to Hilaire Belloc , by Friends of Shipley Mill, published 1992 (Chichester: West Sussex County Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11765]

The Mill and the Murrell, Barnham, West Sussex, by Mervyn Cutten and illustrated by Vic May, published 1992 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11874] & West Sussex Libraries

A detailed history of the windmill at Barnham in West Sussex, with old photographs and diagrams of the workings etc. Permission for the restoration of the mill was given in 1991.

A Bibliography of Sussex Mills, by D. Patterson and D. H. Cox, published 1992 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 22, article, pp.14-20, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506526]   Download PDF

The original list was compiled by D. Datteron and issued as North West Mills Group Circular No. 6.
Since then the list has been extended with the assistance of D. H. Cox and the committee of the Sussex Mills Group

Berwick Windmill, Alfriston, by Mrs. G. M. Couper, published December 1992 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 4, article, pp.145-146) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Berwick Windmill was operated for five generations by Levetts, from father to son beginning with James (1615-1680), Robert (1656-1709), James (1683-1765), William (1722-1777) and William (1749-1828) in the parish of Alfriston

Nutley Windmill: A Short History and Guide, by Frank Gregory and Simon Wright, published 1993 (Uckfield: Uckfield and District Preservation Society) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502975] & East Sussex Libraries

Mills of Forest Row, by M. F. Tighe, published 1993 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 23, article, pp.6-12, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

Forest Row Is a Victorian creation. Before this the present parish lay within East Grinstead, and was covered by a number of manors, of which Brambletye and Maresfield were the most important. Today there is virtually no visible evidence of the five mill sites here Identified. This paper endeavours to set out what can be established of their past.

• Pock Hill Windmill
• Cluttons Hill Windmill, Ashurst Wood
• Brambletye Mills
• Brambletye Forge
• Tablehurst

Some Notable Windmill Authors & Historians of the Past, by Nick Nicholas, published 1993 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 23, article, pp.38-40, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

A Sussex Mill bibliography was published In Sussex Industrial History 22 (1992). Readers may find the following brief biographies of some of the more notable writers Included In the listing of some interest.

• MARJORIE I. BATTEN
• ALLEN CLARKE, 1836-1935
• WILLIAM COLES FINCH
• STANLEY HARMAN FREESE, 1902-1972
• HERBERT EDWARD SYDNEY SIMMONS, 1901-1973
• CHARLES SKILTON
• ALFRED W. TIFFIN
• REX WAILES, 1901-1986
• KARL WOOD, 1888-1958
• STUART P. B. MAIS, 1885-1975
• ROBERT THURSTON HOPKINS

Mills of Forest Row: additional notes, by M. J. Leppard, published 1994 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 24, article, pp.23-24, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/24] & The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

A number of East Grinstead parish records in the West Sussex County Record Office and some published material permit some additions and a few corrections to Mr. Tighe's article 'The Mills of Forest Row' in Sussex Industrial History No. 23 (1993).

The Miller's Tale: Or How to find a missing link, by Audrey Hememsley, published March 1994 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 1, article, pp.7-9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Charles Saunders (1798-1881), miller of Oving, married Rebecca Townsend 21 Nov 1821 and had three sons, Charles, William and John.

The Eccentric Miller of Highdown Hill, by Merle Rafferty, published September 1994 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 3, article, p.118) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of John Olliver of Goring (1707-1793), son of Clement and Margaret Olliver, and married to Anne Tidey of Ferring in 1734. He was known to walk up Highdown Hill to survey the wonderful view and meditate upon the scriptures.

Windmill Hill Mill, Herstmonceux, by Martin Brunnarius and Ron Martin, published 1995 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 25, article, pp.18-21, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

During the 1994 Society mill tour of East Sussex we visited Windmill Hill post mill to view the work described by Ron Martin later in this article. This has saved the mill from possible collapse.
This hand winded post mill is particularly noteworthy not least for its size, in height certainly. The massive bulk of the body has dropped considerably during the occupation of the site. Allowing a foot (0.3 m) for this, then the roof ridge would have been at 50 ft. (15.2 m) above the ground, some 5 ft. higher than Cross-in-Hand post mill 5 miles north west of here. The body is also the largest standing in the county. The Exceptional height is due to the whole being raised on lofty piers which place the trestle inconveniently above the first floor as illustrated on Ron Martin's drawing.

Bygone Corn Mills in the Horsham area, by George H. W. Coomber, published 1996 (Horsham Museum Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13337] & Horsham Museum Society

Cornmills in and around Warbleton, by Molly Beswick, published 1997 (booklet, 52 pp., Warbleton and District History Group) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17464] & The Keep [LIB/503063]

Mills of the Eastbourne Borough Council Area, by Lawrence Stevens, published 1997 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 27, article, pp.22-29, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

The number of mills in the Eastbourne Borough Council area should be of no surprise when we consider the community's dependence on an agrarian economy since Saxon times and the extensive prehistoric evidence of field systems and associated finds of grain storage pits, quern fragments and grain-drying ovens. A glance at the Eastbourne Tithe Map of 1842 shows field after field of arable and pasture-land and a handful of farms in what was good corn country and also by then, extensive sheep pasture. In 1842, the parish covered slightly more than 4,000 acres, whereas modern Eastbourne covers nearly 6,500 acres, having expanded into the parishes of Eastdean, Jevington, Willingdon and Westham during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In 1980, a list of 'Mills of the Eastbourne Borough Council Area' (Stevens 1980) was compiled in which an attempt was made to catalogue the salient facts of each mill, to clarify its position and record sufficient information so that confusion might be avoided.

The Mill's Tale, by Janet Pennington and Joyce Sleight, published 1997 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 81, article, p.10) accessible at: S.A.S. library

Two Mills of West Sussex, by Cliff Gillam, published April 1998 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 61, article, p.27) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/61] & The Keep [LIB/500485]

Sussex Industrial History: Journal of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society. Sussex Windmills and their Restoration - a 1970s perspective, by R. C. Pinney, published 1999 (issue no. 29, Sussex Industrial History, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14071] & The Keep [LIB/506527] & West Sussex Libraries   Download PDF

After giving a talk to a local Christian Fellowship Group on The Windmills of Sussex, I was approached by a person who introduced himself to me as Ron Pinney. He said that he had written a book about windmills and was I interested. Thus I came to read this book in its typed version and realised that although he had been unable to have the work published in 1975 when it was completed, it deserved to be published even at this late date. Following consultation with Peter Hill and Brian Austen, it was agreed that the work should be published as an edition of Sussex Industrial History.
The book contains much of interest to the lover of windmills and in particular to members of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society and Sussex Mills Group. It is appreciated that some of the information has been superseded, and that in the years since it was written other research has increased our knowledge of windmills. However it is thought that this work shows the state of things in the 1970s and as the author saw, it at the time. It also shows the restoration and the methods used at that time. Ron Pinney's text has been presented unchanged and updated in the references provided at the end.
Perhaps someone might be inspired to write a companion volume concerning the methods of restoration used and the state of the windmills of Sussex today.

Wind, Water, Tide and Steam Mills, by Don Cox, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.108-109, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Public Subscription Windmill and the Round House at Lewes, by Ann Lilias Crowther, published 30 October 2001 (108 pp., Pipe Passage Books, ISBN-10: 0954146204 & ISBN-13: 9780954146207) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503444] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Annie Crowther, the present owner of the Round House, tells the fascinating story of the site, the windmill, the house and its owners and occupiers, who have included Virginia and Leonard Woolf and John Every, the owner of the Phoenix Iron Works in Lewes. The book is well illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. It is in paperback format with an attractive cover on the front and back and is 108 pages in length.

Nutley Windmill - A Dendrochronological Investigation, by M. C. Bridge, published 2003 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 33, article, pp.32-35, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531]   Download PDF

Hammond Family Connection with Sussex Mills, by Robin Jones, published 2004 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 34, article, pp.19-25, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506532]   Download PDF

This article is the result correspondence from Mrs. Josephine Potten and her son Ray of Hove, and from Miss E. Mary Selina Hammond of St Albans who are members of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society, and are also related to Charles Edwin Hammond who on 7 May 1873 took out a patent for a centrifugal governing mechanism to control the speed of the sweeps of a windmill, one example being incorporated in the mill at Windmill Hill. As this information was too comprehensive for the Newsletter, I have put together the following article from the correspondence received and associated documentation.

Windmills at Work in East Sussex, compiled by Brigid Chapman from the research material of the late Maurice Lawson Finch, published 1 October 2004 (Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 185770293X & ISBN-13: 9781857702934) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, nearly every town and village had one or more windmills to grind corn. Today only a very few remain and can be visited and perhaps even seen working. However the sites are still there - some with the remains of the windmills that stood on them converted to handsome country houses, some in process of restoration, some offering just foundation marks in the soil and a wonderful view. This book, which is packed with pictures of East Sussex mill sites then and now, lists them in alphabetical order with map references. It also details the fires, storms and odd and unusual things that happened to the individual mills and their owners.

On the Trail of Twelve Windmills, Alfriston and Windover, East Sussex, by Peter Longstaff-Tyrell, published 2005 (Polegate: Gote House Publishing) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The windmill 'betweene the Bridges of Bramber', by Janet Pennington, published 2006 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 144, short article, pp.213-215) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15759] & The Keep [LIB/500362] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Windmills at Work in West Sussex, compiled by J. E. M. from the research material of Maurice Lawson Finch, published 30 October 2006 (112 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857703170 & ISBN-13: 9781857703177) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

From 1155 the power of the wind was used in Sussex to grind corn. By the beginning of the 19th Century almost every town and village has one or more windmills. Today only a few remain and can be visited and perhaps seen working. However the sites are still there, some converted to handsome country houses some in the process of restoration and some offering just foundation marks and a wonderful view. This book, a companion volume to 'Windmills at Work in East Sussex', is packed with pictures of West Sussex mill sites then and now, lists them in alphabetical order with map references. It also details the fires and fatalities; the storms and the lightning strikes and the odd and unexpected things that happened to the mills and their millers.

A History of Manor Mill, Poynings, by Kevin Thornton, published 2007 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 37, article, pp.2-6, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506535]   Download PDF

This report was prepared at the request of Mr. Kevin Thornton, owner of the Mill House, Mill Lane, Poynings, to establish its history and with the longer term view of perhaps restoring the old mill itself, which has now all but disappeared.

Rottingdean Mill, by Ron Martin, published 2008 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 38, article, pp.9-16, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506536]   Download PDF

Rottingdean Mill is located on Beacon Hill at TQ 365024, 160 m north of the South Coast Road, A259. It is an octagonal four storey smock mill on a substantial single storey base of flint rubble, rendered and tarred externally with brick lacing courses and birdsmouth angles. In the base there were two doors, facing east and west, with brick quoins. After the mill ceased working these were infilled with herringbone brickwork, the eastern one only partly so, the remaining space being filled with a steel door, which currently provides access to the mill. Inside, square openings in the walls and odd bits of timber projecting from the brickwork, suggest that the base has been heightened at some time during the mill's working life, the floor levels being changed accordingly. The transition from a low structure with common sails that could be reefed from the ground to a taller one with self-adjusting patent sails meant that no stage was ever required.

Lost Windmills of Sussex, by Guy Blythman, published 1 December 2008 (106 pp., published by the auther, ISBN-10: 0955730317 & ISBN-13: 9780955730313) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/509271] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Sussex Mills: Forward, by Peter Hill, published 2009 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 39, article, p.2, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/39]   Download PDF

It was in 1998 that the feasibility of the formation of a group of enthusiasts entirely devoted to the study, restoration and preservation of the mills of Sussex was first mooted. Now, as we approach the 21st anniversary of the formation of that Group, the invitation to write a foreword for this Journal gives me an opportunity to acknowledge the successes and achievements that have been made.

Windmill Sweeps in Sussex and Kent, by Michael Yates, published 2009 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 39, article, pp.3-12, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/39]   Download PDF

The windmill was once a very common sight in Sussex and Kent and over three hundred of them are recorded in photographs covering the period from the mid nineteenth century to the 1920s. We are all very aware that the sweeps of these were an extremely important part of the mill machinery and that a mill working with its full complement of sweeps is an object of great beauty and a potent reminder of a past now long gone.
Perhaps we are not so aware of the large variety of sweep designs that occur across the South East of England, a subject that is usually treated briefly in the published literature. For example, Martin Brunnarius, in his book The Windmills of Sussex, mentions variations such as common, single and double shutter spring and patent sweeps but rarely ventures into giving any details about their design. Rev. Peter Hemming, in Windmills in Sussex, gives only a brief mention of sweep types and William Coles Finch, in Watermills and Windmills, in his survey of Kent windmills, follows a similar pattern.
A detailed study of the 250 or so photographs that record the mills of Sussex and Kent as they were at the end of their working life shows many variations in sweep design and it is probable that over twenty different types existed. This paper attempts to detail these design features and considers the distribution of sweep types and compares and contrasts these on the three mill types, post, smock and tower, within and between the two counties. For interest, brief comparisons are made with windmills in Surrey and Norfolk. Consideration is also given as to whether local pockets of similar sweep design can be found indicating the influence of a local millwright.

Alfriston Tower Mill, by Bob Bonnett, published 2009 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 39, article, pp.13-14, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/39]   Download PDF

In the past Alfriston had two windmills. A post mill on the outskirts of the village is shown on the 1845 Tithe Map as is Alfriston Tower Mill, situated a quarter of a mile to the south west of Alfriston, which still remains. Two post mills, often mistaken for Alfriston mills, have stood on a site one mile to the south west of Alfriston: Berwick 'old' Mill blown down in a gale on 8 January 1735, and Berwick 'new' Mill destroyed by fire during a violent gale on 8 March 1881.

Earnley (Somerley) Windmill, by Michael J. Karn, published 2009 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 39, article, pp.15-21, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/39]   Download PDF

Earnley Mill, also known as Somerley Mill, lies within the hamlet of Somerley in Bell Lane (the B2198), at the northern end of the parish of Earnley at a point about five miles to the south-west of Chichester. The mill is a smock mill, typical of those constructed in and around the Manhood Peninsula a few years either side of 1800.

Duncton Mill, by Ron Martin, published 2009 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 39, article, pp.28-35, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/39]   Download PDF

Duncton Mill is located at SU 9641 1662 in the parish of Duncton within a complex known as Duncton Mill Farm and owned by the Barlavington Estate. The farm comprises a farmhouse, a barn, a row of pig sties, an apple press and various other buildings as well as the mill. It is currently used as a conference centre and fish farm. Water to operate the mill comes from a small spring at the foot of the Downs, which flows northwards to meet the stream which runs from Lavington Park into Chingford Pond and thence into Burton Mill Pond, eventually to meet the western River Rother.

Friston Windmills, by Esther Worsfold and Lloyd Brunt, published 2010 (booklet no. 1, East Dean & Friston Local History Group) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/509178] & East Dean & Friston Local History Group

300 years of Windmills at Friston.

The Nineteenth Century Construction of Midhurst North Mill, by Alan H. J. Green, published 2010 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 40, article, pp.19-23, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506537]   Download PDF

The Baigents and Lurgashall Mill, by Peter Baigent, published December 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 4, article, pp.155-157) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508845] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The talk by Derek Stidder on 'Mills and millers of Sussex" at the SFHG Conference in March reminded me that some of my ancestors had been employed at Lurgashall Mill in the 18th century. Thanks to a recent visit to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton and help from museum staff I have been able to elucidate my family's involvement with the mill.
The mill, now to be found in the museum, was originally situated on the Western Rother, in the parish of Lurgashall, part of the Cowdray Estate. This is an area in the high weald of Sussex, where the soil is composed of thick and impermeable clay and in late summer the streams and ponds tend to dry up. However in Lurgashall and other nearby villages there is group of sandstone beds that provide shallow wells for farms and cottages. Lurgashall Mill was situated beside a substantial pond that had existed for many years before the mill was built for Viscount Montague. The structure of the mill suggests it was built around the middle of the 17th century.
My family's involvement with milling appears to have started when one of my very distant uncles, Michael BAIGENT, baptised December 1719 in Easebourne, decided to go and work at Lurgashall Mill.

Sources for Sussex Mills, Millers and Millwright Research, by Bob Bonnett, published 2011 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 41, article, pp.15-23, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/41] & The Keep [LIB/506538]   Download PDF

Whilst trawling through the Sussex Record Society year books and other archive records for material for a future book on the mills in the Uckfield area, facts were discovered which do not directly relate to Uckfield, but can be of use to others interested in the history of mills in Sussex. I felt it worthwhile, therefore, to list what was found. This is not in any way a definitive list and much, much more can be found in the East and West Sussex Record Offices, the Mill Archive and elsewhere.
Mill-related information in the Manuscripts of the Newnham & Shelley Families, late of Maresfield Park, Maresfield, East Sussex, held by the East Sussex Record Office.

Milling connections: the Harris family of Patcham, by Carolyn Wheeler, published March 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 5, article, pp.226-229) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508846] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

I grew up in the village of Patcham in the 1940s and my father, Roy HARRIS, with his brother, Frank, ran HARRIS's bakery, grocers and post office. I was proud that the beautiful windmill, depicted on my school badge and a picturesque sight on the hill above the village, had been built by my great-grandfather, Joseph HARRIS. But knowledge of Joseph's background was sketchy: we believed that he had come from Lewes to Patcham, become apprenticed to a miller, learnt his trade and subsequently established a successful business, and that he had eventually died of pneumonia in 1903 after foolishly struggling up the hill to tend to the mill in a terrible storm.

The Windmills on Juggs Road, by Bob Bonnett, published 2012 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 42, article, pp.9-15, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/42] & The Keep [LIB/506539]   Download PDF

Argos Post Mill, by Bob Bonnett, published 2013 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 43, article, pp.19-24, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/43] & The Keep [LIB/507840]   Download PDF

Offham Smock Mill, Hamsey, by Bob Bonnett, published 2013 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 43, article, pp.26-28, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/43] & The Keep [LIB/507840]   Download PDF

The Mills of Barcombe Parish, by Bob Bonnett, published 2014 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 44, article, pp.2-10, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/44] & The Keep [LIB/507922]   Download PDF

The Button Factory at Barcombe Mills, by Mike Green, Stephen Green & Peter Cox, published 2014 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 44, article, pp.11-19, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/44] & The Keep [LIB/507922]   Download PDF

Bygone Corn Mills in the Horsham area, by George Coomber, published 1 June 2014 (revised edition, 144 pp., Horsham Museum Society, ISBN-10: 190248455X & ISBN-13: 9781902484556) accessible at: Horsham Museum Society & West Sussex Libraries

Windmills of Sussex, by Derek Nicholas, published 3 August 2015 (128 pp., Stenlake Publishing, ISBN-10: 1840337044 & ISBN-13: 9781840337044) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries