| Bursledon Windmill | |
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Hampshire's last working windmill |
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| Origin | |
| Mill name | Bursledon Mill |
| Grid reference | SU 482 108 |
| Operator(s) | Hampshire County Council |
| Year built | 1814 |
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| Purpose | Corn mill |
| Type | tower mill |
| Storeys | Five storeys |
| Number of sails | Four sails |
| Type of sails | Common sails |
| Windshaft | Wood |
| Winding | Hand winded via chain and wheel |
| Number of pairs of millstones | Three |
Bursledon Windmill is a Grade II* listed[1] windmill at Bursledon, Hampshire England which has been restored to working order.
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Bursledon Windmill was built in 1814, replacing an earlier tower mill which was built in 1766.[2] The machinery of the earlier mill was incorporated into the new mill.[3] In 1814, the mill was mortgaged for £800 for six years. The mill was sold by the mortgagees in 1820.[2] The mill was working until the 1880s. When the mill ceased working, a flat roof was placed on the cap frame, which preserved the machinery in the mill.[3]
In 1931, the runner stones were removed. The mill was derelict by 1978. The top two floors being in very poor condition by then. Some essential repairs were carried out in that year by the County Council.[4] Between 1978 and 1991, the mill was restored by the Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust. The sails were replaced in 1990 and the mill opened to the public in May 1991.[2]
Bursledon mill is a five storey tower mill with a stage at first floor level. The boat shaped cap is winded by a chain and wheel. The four Common sails are carried on a wooden windshaft, which also carries the wooden brake wheel. This drives the wooden wallower, located at the top of the wooden upright shaft. The wooden great spur wheel at the bottom of the upright shaft drives three pairs of underdrift millstones.[4]
Bursledon windmill is open to the public from 11:00 to 16:00 on Sundays. It is also open by appointment on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.[5] John Cove and his family worked this mill between 1847 and 1871. uk census shows he had worked a mill in portsmouth and origonaly came from wiltshire. He and his wife Susannah Emmett both came from Wiltshire and are responsible for the nearly all the Cove family in southampton. his daughter Mary married a jarvis and ran the Jolly Sailor public house in hamble one of his other daughters ran a market garden at the end of windmill lane and his son John Cove became a farm labourer. and was my 4x great grandfather. (B.T.Cove)
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