Tower mill, Beaconsfield
A wind-powered corn mill in the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England.
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Built in 1811, this tower mill ceased working in 1880. As a working mill it had 4 sails and a fantail, with an octagonal base which merged into a circular tower. After ceasing work a gale blew a sail off, after which it was run by a belt from a steam engine in a nearby shed.
By the 1930s most of the machinery had been removed. When surveyed by Arthur C Smith in 1976 it had become a ruin in the last stages of collapse, with about a third of the tower was standing with the remainder fallen into a heap of rubble.
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| Power source | Wind |
| Mill type | Tower mill |
| Mill function | Corn mill |
| Archive ID | 1832 |
| Location | Beaconsfield |
| Historic county | Buckinghamshire |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| NGR | SU 948 901 |
| Latitude/longitude | 51.60168537, -0.63234659 |
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References
- Anthony Bryan, Mills Research Group Database
- Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Group, "Buckinghamshire Windmills" (Records of Bucks, 20 (4), 1978)
- Smith, Arthur C, Windmills in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire: a contemporary survey. (Stevenage Museum publications, 1976), p. 16
- Smith, Donald, English windmills, vol 2 (Architectural Press, 1932), p. 135
- Windmill World
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