Highdown New Mill, Angmering

*Angmering Windmill*
Angmering Windmill
	The mill in 2005
Origin
Mill name	Highdown New Mill; Ecclesden Mill
Mill location	TQ 082 044
Coordinates	50°49′44″N0°27′54″W / 50.829°N 0.465°W Coordinates: 50°49′44″N0°27′54″W / 50.829°N 0.465°W
Operator(s)	Private
Year built	1826
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Tower mill
Storeys	Four storeys
No. of sails	Four sails
Type of sails	Patent sails
Winding	Fantail
No. of pairs of millstones	Two pairs

Last updated April 07, 2019

Highdown New Mill or Ecclesden Mill is a tower mill at Angmering, Sussex, England which has been converted to residential accommodation.

A tower mill is a type of vertical windmill consisting of a brick or stone tower, on which sits a wooden 'cap' or roof, which can rotate to bring the sails into the wind.

Angmering is a large village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex on the southern edge of the South Downs National Park, England; about two-thirds of the parish fall within the Park. It is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the east and west respectively. It has been inhabited since the Bronze Age and there are the remains of a Roman Villa and bath house. In 1976, Angmering was twinned with the Normandy town of Ouistreham on the "Riva-Bella", the location of the World War II Normandy Landings' Sword Beach..

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe, is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English Channel, and divided for many purposes into the ceremonial counties of West Sussex and East Sussex. Brighton and Hove, though part of East Sussex, was made a unitary authority in 1997, and as such, is administered independently of the rest of East Sussex. Brighton and Hove was granted City status in 2000. Until then, Chichester was Sussex's only city.

History

Highdown New Mill was built in 1826. The mill was working until 1872. In 1880, the cap and sails were blown off. By the 1930s the mill was an ivy clad ruin. It was converted into a house in the early 1970s.^[1] The tower has recently been clad in wooden shingles.^[2]

Description

Highdown New Mill is a four-storey brick tower mill. It had four Patent sails and the beehive cap was winded by a fantail. The mill drove two pairs of millstones. All that remains today is the tower, with various additions and extensions.^[1]

Windmills are powered by their sails. Sails are found in different designs, from primitive common sails to the advanced patent sails.

A fantail is a small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, and which turns the cap automatically to bring it into the wind. The fantail was patented in 1745 by Edmund Lee, a blacksmith working at Brockmill Forge near Wigan, England, and perfected on mills around Leeds and Hull towards the end of the 18th century. Fantails are found on all types of traditional windmills and are especially useful where changes in wind direction are frequent. They are more common in England, Denmark and Germany than in other parts of Europe, and are little-known on windmills elsewhere except where English millwrighting traditions were in evidence.

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, for grinding wheat or other grains.

Millers

Timothy pierce

1829 - 1872

References for above:-^[1]

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References

1 2 3 Brunnarius, Martin (1979). The Windmills of Sussex. Chichester: Philimore. pp. 129–130, 196. ISBN 0-85033-345-8.
↑ "Windmills of Angmering". Angmering village. Archived from the original on 2008-06-23. Retrieved 2008-05-13.

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