Hogg Hill Mill is a

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, England. It houses the private

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History

Hogg Hill Mill was built in

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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

Description

Hogg Hill Mill is a post mill on a two-storey roundhouse. It has four spring sails carried on a

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windshaft and is winded by a roof-mounted

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. 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

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, Essex, which has not carried its fantail since 1939. The mill drove two pairs of

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s, arranged head and tail. The brake wheel has been removed, but the wooden tail wheel is of clasp arm construction.

Millers

*John Skinner 1781–1790 (Pett) *William Sargeant 1791 *John Sargeant 1834–1855 *Lewis Sargent 1855–1874 (Source: census returns) *Garndner Bros 1890–1920

Recording studio

The English musician

, bought the nearby Blossom Wood Farm in

Peasmarsh Peasmarsh is a village and civil parish in the Rother district, in the county of East Sussex in England. It is located on the A268 road between Rye and Beckley, some north-west of Rye. The village church, dedicated to St Peter and Paul, lie ...

in 1973 in hopes of raising his children away from the limelight. He bought Hog Hill Mill in

in 1981. After the recording studio expenses of recording his albums ''

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'' and ''

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'', McCartney felt he could have built his own studio for the same amount. He converted the windmill on the property into a private recording studio, Hog Hill Mill, completed in 1985.

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