Outwood Mill - Windmill
Outwood, Surrey
Currently closed and for
rental
Outwood
Windmill is Britain’s oldest
working windmill. Listed Grade 1 by English Heritage, it has won numerous awards
over the years and has appeared in a number of television programmes.
It was built in 1665 by Thomas
Budgen of Nutfield, and is what is known as a Post Mill; the whole body,
weighing around 25 tons, rotates on a central post made of a single enormous oak
tree, to bring the mill round into the wind.
The
mill stands some 39ft high, the sails being 60ft across.
The
mill body has two main floors, the top one of which houses the two pairs of
French burr millstones, as well as the oak windshaft, on which the sails
revolve, and the huge brakewheel and tailwheel with their wooden cogs.
On the lower
floor are the flour bins and the miller’s desk, as well as the upper portion of
the main post.
Further information Grid
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Outwood Mill (Windmill), Outwood, Surrey |
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TQ 327455
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Vanessa.pain@outwoodwindmill.co.uk |
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www.outwoodwindmill.co.uk |
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Planning Grid
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Outwood Mill (Windmill), Outwood, Surrey |
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TQ 327455
OS
Sheet 187. |
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Turn south
off A25 Reigate to Godstone road at Bletchingley. The mill is just over 3
miles, on Outwood Common |
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Outwood Windmill, Outwood, REDHILL
Surrey |
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RH1 5PW.
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Vanessa
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Tel - 07760
194948 |
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Mills open says:
Easter to
October, Sundays, 14.00 - 18.00. Other times by appointment. School parties
a specialty.
website says Windmill is closed until further notice |
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