Swingate Mill, Guston

Swingate Mill, Guston
Swingate Mill, 1913
Origin
Grid reference	TR 334 444
Coordinates	51°9′3″N 1°20′4.5″E / 51.15083°N 1.334583°E / 51.15083; 1.334583Coordinates: 51°9′3″N 1°20′4.5″E / 51.15083°N 1.334583°E / 51.15083; 1.334583
Year built	1849
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Tower mill
Storeys	Four storeys
No. of sails	Four
Type of sails	Patent sails
Windshaft	Cast iron
Winding	Fantail
Fantail blades	Six blades
No. of pairs of millstones	Three pairs

Swingate Mill is a Grade II listed^[1] tower mill in Guston, Kent, England that was built in 1849.

History[]

Swingate Mill was built for John Mummery in 1849, incorporating the cap, sails, windshaft and brake wheel from a windmill that had been intended to be erected on the Rope Walk, Dover, but which was not built owing to fears that it would not function properly at the proposed site.^[2] The mill was working by wind until 1943, when the sails were damaged by enemy fire. A new pair of sails were fitted in 1947, but the mill was tail-winded in 1959 and lost its cap and sails.^[3]

Description[]

Swingate Mill is a four-storey brick tower mill with a Kentish-style cap. It had four patent sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft. The mill was winded by a fantail.^[2] There was a stage at first-floor level. The mill drove three pairs of millstones^[3] underdrift and all the machinery was cast iron.^[4]

Millers[]

• John Mummery 1849 - 1907
• Ebeneezer A Mummery 1907 - 1918
• George Sheaff 1922 - 1930
• Thompsett 1930 - 1947

References for above:-^[2][3]

References[]

External links[]

• Windmill World page on the mill.