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Rolvenden Windmill
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Rolvenden Windmill

Area Guides: Rolvenden
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Windmills


Details: The windmill can be found on the Benenden Road just outside the village. Rolvenden Windmill is built on a mill mound that probably belonged to a previous mill, as the present building is known to have replaced an earlier mill some time after 1736. The mill has a rare type of brake, with wood below and iron above the centreline. A mill is shown here on a map dating from 1596 but not on maps of 1680 or 1736. Intriguingly, one is shown on a map of 1719. The earliest date marked on the building is 1772. This is a restored ‘turret’ post mill — that is, it has a roundhouse. There are two pairs of stones carried in 'head' and 'tail' configuration, one with a wooden stone nut and the other in iron. The wooden windshaft has mortises to take a compass arm wheel and may have been reversed at some period. Rolvenden was last powered by wind in about 1882. Two sails were removed in 1885. The timber roundhouse was used for firewood during the First World War and the ladder collapsed in 1917. Some repairs were made in the 1930s but restoration was not begun until 1956.

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