Killick's Mill is a

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listed

smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. This t ...

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that was built in 1801 and which has been restored.

History

''Killick's mill'' was built in 1801 by three brothers named Killick from

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. Unusually, the mill is

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al in plan. Most smock mills are

octagon In geometry, an octagon () is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon. A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t is a ...

al in plan. The mill was run by the Killick family until 1889 when it was sold to the Norton family. The mill last worked by wind in 1929, and then by oil engine and electric motor until the 1965. The mill was acquired by

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in 1960 and restored by E Hole and Sons, the

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s at a cost of £4,375.

Description

''Killick's Mill'' is a three-storey smock mill on a two-storey single-storey brick base. There is a stage at second-floor level. It has four double patent sails carried on a

cast-iron Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloying elements determine the form in which its car ...

windshaft. The sails are long. The mill is winded by a fantail. The wooden Brake Wheel is diameter. The Wallower and Great Spur Wheel are of cast iron. When the mill was built, it had two pairs of

millstones Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for Trituration, triturating, crusher, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains. They are sometimes referred to as grindstones or grinding stones. Millstone ...

. Later a third and then a fourth pair were added. One of the added pair of stones came from Richardson's mill, Boughton under Blean, as did the auxiliary oil engine. The stones are driven overdrift. At one time, the mill generated its own electricity to power electric lights within the mill.

Millers

*James Killick 1801 - 1823 *Sukey Killick 1823 - *James Killick 1852 - 1889 *Richard Killick 1882 - 1889 *Thomas Killick 1882 - 1889 *John Norton 1889 - *William Norton 1889 - *Leslie Norton *J & W Norton 1895 - 1950s *J & W Norton (Meopham) Ltd. 1950s - 1965 References for above:-

Culture and media

Killick's Mill appeared briefly in

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used in an episode of

The Prisoner ''The Prisoner'' is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan. McGoohan portrays Number Six (The Prisoner), Number Six, an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a The Village (The Prisoner), mysteri ...

titled ''

The Girl Who Was Death "The Girl Who Was Death" is an episode of the allegorical British science fiction TV series, ''The Prisoner''. It was written by Terence Feely and directed by David Tomblin and was the sixteenth produced. It was broadcast in the UK on ITV (S ...

'' which was filmed in 1967 and first shown in 1968.

References

External links

Windmill World page
on the mill.

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