Outwood Windmill
| Outwood post mill | |
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Outwood post mill
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| Origin | |
| Mill name | Outwod post mill |
| Mill location | Outwood, Surrey |
| Grid reference | TQ 328 456 |
| Coordinates | 51°11′38″N 0°06′04″W / 51.194°N 0.101°WCoordinates: 51°11′38″N 0°06′04″W / 51.194°N 0.101°W |
| Operator(s) | Private |
| Year built | 1665 |
| Information | |
| Purpose | Corn mill |
| Type | Post mill |
| Roundhouse storeys | Single storey roundhouse |
| No. of sails | Four sails |
| Type of sails | Spring sails |
| Windshaft | Wood, with cast iron poll end |
| Winding | Tailpole |
| No. of pairs of millstones | Two pairs, Head and Tail |
| Size of millstones | 4 feet (1.22 m) diameter |
| Outwood smock mill | |
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The smock mill, c.1903. Note the missing fantail has been drawn in
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| Origin | |
| Mill name | High Mill |
| Year built | 1796 |
| Information | |
| Purpose | Corn mill |
| Type | Smock mill |
| Storeys | Five-storey smock |
| Base storeys | Low brick base of a few courses |
| Smock sides | Eight sides |
| No. of sails | Four sails |
| Type of sails | Spring Patent sails |
| Windshaft | Cast iron |
| Winding | Fantail |
| No. of pairs of millstones | Four pairs |
| Year lost | 1960 |
| Other information | Tallest smock tower of any windmill in the United Kingdom |
Outwood Windmill is a Grade I listedpost mill in Outwood, Surrey. Built in 1665 by Thomas Budgen, a miller from Nutfield in Surrey, it is Britain's oldest working windmill.
The windmill was one of a pair, as there was a smock mill built alongside in 1797. This mill had the tallest smock tower in the United Kingdom, until its collapse in 1960.
Outwood Windmill was built for Thomas Budgen (1640–1716) in 1665. The original deed for its erection is still in existence. Thomas Budgen borrowed the money to finance the building of the windmill from two of his brothers-in-law. He was able to repay them within two years. The builders of the mill are traditionally said to have watched the Great Fire of London glowing in the distance, some 25 miles (40 km) away. In 1678, Thomas Budgen was convicted under the Conventicle Act as a seditious preacher, and fined £20.
John Budgen took the mill on his father's death, and in 1715 was paying Quit Rent on the mill, a malthouse and a brick kiln. John Budgen died in 1765 and the rent was paid by his widow until she died in 1768, when Ezekiel Budgen took the mill. Ezekiel Budgen was involved in a quarrel with his brother Isaac, which led to William Budgen (Ezekiel's nephew) being granted a piece of land near the mill in 1796 with liberty to erect a windmill upon it. By 1806, the mill was in the possession of John Jupp. William Jupp took the mill sometime before 1880 and ran it until he died in 1934. In 1929, the Windmill Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings recognised the mill as "of paramount importance". A new pair of Spring sails were needed in 1931. The Society paid for Thomas Hunt, the Soham millwright, to make and fit these at a cost of £80. William Jupp agreed not to sell the mill for demolition as a condition of the work being done. Publicity generated at the time led to an increase in orders at the mill. On 30 October 1931, a meeting was held to appeal for funds to replace the older pair of sails. Hilaire Belloc, who at the time owned Shipley windmill in Sussex, was the main speaker. Sir Joseph Rank was one of the subscribers. In 1933, a pair of sails was purchased secondhand These had previously been on the Black Mill, Forncett End, Norfolk, which had been demolished in September 1932. These replaced a pair of sails that had been on the mill for in excess of sixty years. William Jupp died in 1934.
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