Charing Windmill

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title: "Charing Windmill" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["buildings-and-structures-completed-in-the-19th-century", "windmills-in-kent", "grinding-mills-in-the-united-kingdom", "smock-mills-in-england", "grade-ii-listed-buildings-in-kent", "octagonal-buildings-in-the-united-kingdom"] description: "Windmill in Charing, Kent, England" topic_path: "geography/united-kingdom" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Windmill" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Windmill in Charing, Kent, England ::

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Field	Value
name	Charing Windmill
image	Windmill at Charing - geograph.org.uk - 6391849.jpg
image_size	250px
caption	The converted mill.
name_of_mill	Field Mill
gbgridref	TQ 957 503
coordinates
built	Early nineteenth century
purpose	Corn milling
type	Smock mill
storeys	Three-storey smock
base_storeys	One storey
smock_sides	Eight-sided
sail_number	Four
sail_type	Two Common sails and two Spring sails
windshaft	Cast iron
winding	Fantail
fantail_blades	Six
pairs_of_millstones	Three pairs
other	Was painted white when a working mill, tarred black since conversion to a house.
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|name = Charing Windmill |image = Windmill at Charing - geograph.org.uk - 6391849.jpg |image_size = 250px |caption = The converted mill. |name_of_mill = Field Mill |location_of_mill = |gbgridref = TQ 957 503 |coordinates = |operator = |built = Early nineteenth century |purpose = Corn milling |type = Smock mill |storeys = Three-storey smock |base_storeys = One storey |roundhouse_storeys = |smock_sides = Eight-sided |sail_number = Four |sail_type = Two Common sails and two Spring sails |windshaft = Cast iron |winding = Fantail |fantail_blades = Six |auxpower = |pairs_of_millstones= Three pairs |stone_size = |saw_type = |pump_type = |scoop_dia = |lost = |other = Was painted white when a working mill, tarred black since conversion to a house. Charing Windmill is a Grade II listed smock windmill, now converted to a house, on Charing Hill in Kent in southeast England. It is sometimes known as Field Mill, but that name was also used by a watermill in Charing.

History

Charing Mill was built in the early 19th century. It was marked on the 1819–43 Ordnance Survey map and also on Greenwood's 1821 map of Kent. It was working until 1891, when the business was transferred to Field Watermill, although two new common sails had been erected on the mill by Holman's of Canterbury the year before. The sails were removed in 1917 after being damaged in a gale.

Description

Charing Mill is a three-storey smock mill on a single-storey base. It has a Kentish-style cap. It had two common sails and two spring sails and was winded by a fantail.

Millers

• Thomas Parks 1823–1827
• Richard Chapman Jennings 1839
• A Sidders
• S Andrews
• Robert Millgate 1878 (Charing Heath windmill?)
• Pay 1878–1892 (Field watermill?)
• Pope 1878–1892 (Field watermill?)
• William Smith
• George Smith 1887
• Walter Hicks 1891

References

References

1. {{NHLE
2. West, Jenny. (1973). "The Windmills of Kent". Charles Skilton Ltd..
3. Coles Finch, William. (1933). "Watermills and Windmills". C W Daniel Company.
4. "View up towards cap. No sweeps or stocks". The Mills Archive Trust.
5. "Directory of Kent Mill People". The Mills Archive Trust.

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