Hogg Hill Mill is a
post mill
The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. All p ...
at
Icklesham
Icklesham is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. The village is located about six miles (10 km) east of Hastings, on the main A259 Hastings to Rye road. The surrounding countryside is a made up of f ...
in
East Sussex,
England
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.
History
Hogg Hill Mill was built in
Pett
Pett is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. The village is located north-east of Hastings on the edge of Pett Level, the one-time marshes stretching along the coast of Rye Bay.
The road through the villa ...
in 1781 and moved to Icklesham in 1790. It was working by wind until 1920, when it was stopped, owing to a weak weatherbeam.
The mill was also used as a filming location for the 1951 British crime drama film ''
The Quiet Woman'', directed by John Gilling.
Today, the mill houses the recording studios of
Sir Paul McCartney
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.
Description
Hogg Hill Mill is a post mill on a two-storey roundhouse. It has four
spring sails carried on a
cast iron
Cast iron is a class of iron– carbon alloys with a carbon content more than 2%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloy constituents affect its color when fractured: white cast iron has carbide impur ...
windshaft and is winded by a roof-mounted
fantail
Fantails are small insectivorous songbirds of the genus ''Rhipidura'' in the family Rhipiduridae, native to Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Most of the species are about long, specialist aerial feeders, and named as " ...
. It is one of only two surviving post mills in England with this feature, and the only one where this can still be seen.
[The other mill is at ]Ramsey
Ramsey may refer to:
Geography British Isles
* Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, a small market town in England
* Ramsey, Essex, a village near Harwich, England
** Ramsey and Parkeston, a civil parish formerly called just "Ramsey"
* Ramsey, Isle of Man, t ...
, Essex, which has not carried its fantail since 1939. The mill drove two pairs of
millstones, arranged head and tail. The brake wheel has been removed, but the wooden tail wheel is of clasp arm construction.
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]
Millers
*John Skinner 1781–1790 (Pett)
*William Sargeant 1791
*John Sargeant 1834–1855
*Lewis Sargent 1855–1874 (Source: census returns)
*Garndner Bros 1890–1920[
]
References
External links
Windmill World
Page on Windmill Hill Mill.
Further reading
Online version
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Post mills in the United Kingdom
Grinding mills in the United Kingdom
Windmills completed in 1781
Paul McCartney
Windmills in East Sussex
Icklesham