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Base used as store
The surviving base remains and has been used as a store.
Site overview
Aldington Mill was a smock corn mill at Aldington. Built around 1878, it worked into the early twentieth century and ceased working around 1908. The mill was demolished in 1910, leaving the base.
Specialist mill records identify the site as a smock corn mill and record that the base only remains. The surviving base has been used as a store, preserving a reduced but recognisable remnant of the former windmill within the Aldington landscape above Romney Marsh.
Map
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History
Aldington Mill was a smock corn mill in the parish of Aldington. It was built around 1878 and stood within the village's late nineteenth-century milling landscape. The mill worked by wind as a corn mill, using the smock-mill form typical of many Kentish windmills.
Its working life was relatively short. It worked until about 1908 and was demolished in 1910, leaving the base standing. Later windmill records identify the site as a surviving smock mill base, with the former mill reduced to its lower structure and used as a store. The complete smock body, cap, sails, windshaft, and machinery are no longer present.
Aldington Mill is therefore a reduced windmill survival rather than a complete restored mill. Its remaining base marks the position of the former smock corn mill and preserves a small element of Aldington's wind-powered milling history.
Timeline
1878
Smock mill built
Aldington Mill was built around 1878 as a smock corn mill.
1908
Wind milling ended
The smock mill worked until about 1908.
1910
Mill demolished
The smock mill was demolished in 1910, leaving the base.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Wikipedia article: List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive site record
Aldington and Bonnington Parish Council village information
Wikipedia article: List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive site record
Aldington and Bonnington Parish Council village information