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Maid Lane Mill, Southwark

A wind-powered bone mill and corn mill in the historic county of Surrey, England.

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Hollow post mill on the site of Whitbread's Brewery, 1746-1820 (demolished 1820). Mill was used as a bone mill (for fertiliser) around 1790.

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Power source Wind
Mill type Hollow-post mill
Mill function Bone mill, Corn mill
Archive ID 11435
Location Whitbread's Brewery, just south of the northern most section of Park Street, Southwark
Historic county Surrey
Country England, United Kingdom
NGR TQ 324 803
Latitude/longitude 51.50673500, -0.09354600

Location

References

  • Farries, K.G. and Mason, M.T., Windmills of Surrey and Inner London ( Charles Skilton, 1966)
  • Gregory, Roy, The Industrial Windmill in Britain (Phillimore, 2005) p 138

 

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