2008–2012
Reduced-size post mill constructed
David Hayward built a half-size post mill at Enham, dimensionally based on Pitstone Windmill.
Site overview
Enham Windmill is a reduced-size post mill originally built at Enham Alamein by David Hayward between 2008 and 2012. The mill was dimensionally based on Pitstone Windmill and used a mixture of traditional materials and modern engineering details. Although small in scale, it was built as a functional mill capable of grinding flour with a single pair of stones.
The stones are recorded as having come from Fred Dibnah. The mill was later moved from its original domestic setting to a permanent home at Finkley Down Farm. It represents a modern reconstruction of post-mill form rather than a historic working windmill, but retains a direct mechanical milling purpose.
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History
Enham Windmill is a modern reduced-size post mill built at Enham Alamein. David Hayward constructed the mill at his home between 2008 and 2012, creating a half-size post mill based dimensionally on Pitstone Windmill. The project combined traditional post-mill form with selected modern engineering features, including modern bearing arrangements where appropriate.
The mill was not built merely as a decorative garden feature. It was capable of milling flour and used a single pair of stones recorded as having been sourced from Fred Dibnah. Its first setting was domestic, where its scale and form made it visually striking but impractical as a permanent location. In 2017 the mill was moved to Finkley Down Farm, giving it a more suitable long-term home.
Enham Windmill is therefore best understood as a modern working-scale interpretation of a traditional post mill. Its significance lies in the survival of a newly built, mechanically capable post-mill structure within the Hampshire windmill record, rather than in a nineteenth-century commercial milling history.
Timeline
2012
Mill completed
The reduced-size post mill was completed with a small pair of millstones and was capable of milling flour.
2017
Mill relocated to Finkley Down Farm
The Enham post mill was moved from its original domestic setting to a permanent home at Finkley Down Farm.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Windmill World news item: Enham's windmill moved to Finkley Down Farm
Windmill World news item: The youngest windmills in the UK
List of windmills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Windmill World news item: Enham's windmill moved to Finkley Down Farm
Windmill World news item: The youngest windmills in the UK
List of windmills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight