Photographs: One on Mills Archive web site. Two in W Coles Finch (BDS Photocopy No 40/16)
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.
Date ceased work:

 

Date disappeared: W Coles Finch recorded that only a portion of the brick base remained.
Names of associated people and dates:

 

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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