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Smock corn mill recorded
Old Mill at Blean is recorded as a wind-powered smock corn mill.
Site overview
Old Mill at Blean was a smock corn mill in the historic county of Kent. The Mills Archive identifies it as a wind-powered corn mill, and Windmill World records the site at 51.30608, 1.04850 with the base surviving. The mill stood within the Blean landscape north-west of Canterbury, where wind power supplemented the rural milling economy.
The recorded survival is the base of the former smock mill rather than a complete mill with cap, sweeps, fantail, and machinery. The site therefore represents a reduced but physical survival of Blean's wind-powered corn-milling history.
Map
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History
Old Mill at Blean was a smock corn mill. It is recorded by the Mills Archive as a wind-powered corn mill in the historic county of Kent, and specialist windmill records locate the site at Blean. Windmill World identifies the surviving fabric as the base of a smock corn mill.
The remaining structure marks the former mill site within the Blean landscape, north-west of Canterbury. The cap, sweeps, and working machinery have gone, but the base survives as evidence of the former wind-powered corn mill. The site is therefore a modest but positive survival: not a restored working windmill, but a retained lower structure preserving the location and footprint of Blean's Old Mill.
Timeline
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Mill base survives
The base of the former smock corn mill survives at Blean.
Sources and records
Mills Archive site record
Windmill World site entry
List of windmills in Kent
Geograph windmills gazetteer
Windmill World site entry
List of windmills in Kent
Geograph windmills gazetteer