Charing Windmill Charing · Kent · England

Charing Windmill is a former smock corn mill on Charing Hill. It is also known as Field Mill, although that name was also used for a watermill at Charing. The windmill was built in the early nineteenth century and appeared on both the 1819–43 Ordnance Survey map and Greenwood's 1821 map of Kent.

The mill was a three-storey, eight-sided smock mill standing on a single-storey base. It carried four sails, with two common sails and two spring sails, and was winded by a six-bladed fantail. Its machinery included a cast-iron windshaft and three pairs of millstones. While working, the mill was painted white; after conversion it became tarred black, giving the surviving building a different appearance from its working-period finish.

Charing Windmill continued in use until 1891. In the previous year, two new common sails had been erected by Holman's of Canterbury, but the milling business was then transferred to Field Watermill. The windmill was later converted to residential use. It no longer survives as a complete working mill with sails and active machinery, but the Grade II listed smock structure remains a prominent former windmill on the hillside above Charing.