Croxley Green Windmill is a

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Croxley Green Croxley Green is both a village and a suburb of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is also a civil parish. Located on the A412 between Watford to the northeast and Rickmansworth to the southwest, it is approximately northwest of centr ...

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which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History

Croxley Green Windmill was built c1860. Isaac Watts was the miller in 1861. He was living at Warden Hill near

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in 1859. The mill was working by wind until the sails were blown off in the 1880s and from 1886 is recorded as having worked by steam engine only. The mill was last used to grind wheat in 1899 and after that it was used as a saw mill and turnery. By the 1930s the mill was used as a chicken house and pigeon loft. During the

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it was used as an

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observation post, with an

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mounted on the tower. The mill was converted to residential accommodation in the 1960s The Windmill and 1960's residential extension are currently going through a restoration project to bring it up to modern standards started in 2019.

Description

Croxley Green Mill is a five-storey tower mill with a stage at second floor level. The tower has an internal diameter of at ground level. It had a boat shaped cap winded by a ''fantail''. The four ''Patent sails'' drove three pairs of ''millstones''.

Millers

*Isaac Watts 1861-62 *Philip Howard 1862-65 *J Batchelor 1865-70 *William Caldwell 1870-74 *Ephraim Holloway 1874-95 *Hannah Holloway 1895-1900 Reference for above:-

References

External links

Windmill World
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