| Photographs: | One on Mills Archive web site. Two in W Coles Finch (BDS Photocopy No 40/16) |
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| Type: | Smock, tarred. (Probably) three-floored smock tower on single storey base surrounded by wooden work sheds. Roof of sheds formed reefing stage, without handrail, at first floor level. Machinery: Four anti-clockwise patent sails struck by rocking lever, with leading boards covering inner six bays. Eight-bladed fantail. Cap may have been covered with tarred canvas. |
| Date built: | Moved to Bethersden from Folkestone by Mr Jarvis in 1886. |
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| Date disappeared: | W Coles Finch recorded that only a portion of the brick base remained. |
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| Millers: | 1851 – G Derringstone, Barham, Canterbury 1855 – Mrs S Derringstone, Canterbury 1862, 1866, 1870 – Sackett Jeremiah, Breach, Barham, Canterbury 1874, 1878 1882, 1887, 1890 – White John Browning, Barham, Canterbury |
| Visit by Stoyels | None recorded W Coles Finch records (page 161) “This mill replaced Little Mill at Bethersden. Until about 1886 it stood at Millfield, Folkestone, when it was moved to Bethersden and re-erected as Jarvis’s sawmill.” |
| INFORMATION SOURCE: | EW and BD Stoyel (see Stoyel Kent Windmill notes for their further references) |
| MAT DOC REF: | CFM 2006 |
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