Croxley Green Windmill

Coordinates: 51°38′47″N 0°27′29″W / 51.64639°N 0.45806°W

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Croxley Green Windmill


Origin
Mill name	Croxley Green Mill
Mill location	TQ 067 953
Coordinates	51°38′47″N 0°27′29″W / 51.64639°N 0.45806°W / 51.64639; -0.45806
Operator(s)	Private
Year built	c1860
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Tower mill
Storeys	Five storeys
No. of sails	Four sails
Type of sails	Patent sails
Winding	Fantail
Auxiliary power	Steam engine
No. of pairs of millstones	Three pairs

Croxley Green Windmill is a Grade II listed^[1] tower mill at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, England which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History

Croxley Green Windmill was built c1860. Isaac Watts was the miller in 1861. He was living at Warden Hill near Luton, Bedfordshire in 1859. The mill was working by wind until the sails were blown off in the 1880s and from 1886 is recorded as having worked by steam engine only. The mill was last used to grind wheat in 1899 and after that it was used as a saw mill and turnery. By the 1930s the mill was used as a chicken house and pigeon loft. During the Second World War it was used as an Air Raid Precautions observation post, with an air raid siren mounted on the tower. The mill was converted to residential accommodation in the 1960s.^[2]

Description

Croxley Green Mill is a five-storey tower mill with a stage at second floor level. The tower has an internal diameter of 22 feet (6.71 m) at ground level. It had a boat shaped cap winded by a fantail. The four Patent sails drove three pairs of millstones.^[2]

Millers

Isaac Watts 1861-62
Philip Howard 1862-65
J Batchelor 1865-70
William Caldwell 1870-74
Ephraim Holloway 1874-95
Hannah Holloway 1895-1900

Reference for above:-^[2]

References

^ Historic England. "THE WINDMILL, WINDMILL DRIVE (north side), RICKMANSWORTH, THREE RIVERS, HERTFORDSHIRE (1100797)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Moore, Cyril (1999). Hertfordshire Windmills and Windmillers. Sawbridgeworth: Windsup Publishing. pp. 71–72. ISBN 0-9533861-0-4.

External links

Windmill World webpage on Croxley Green Mill.

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