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Former mill remains recorded
The site remains recorded as the remains of a former smock corn mill at Waltham.
Site overview
Dilnot's Old Mill was a smock corn mill at Waltham, near Canterbury. Built around 1850, it worked until about 1908 and collapsed on 20 May 1910. The mill was one of the village's two recorded smock mills, the other being Cloke's Mill.
The surviving site is now represented by remains rather than a complete windmill. Its documented history is concise but clear: a mid-nineteenth-century smock corn mill, worked into the early twentieth century, then lost through collapse shortly after its working life ended.
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History
Dilnot's Old Mill was a smock corn mill at Waltham. It was built around 1850 and stood as part of the village's wind-powered corn-milling landscape. Alongside Cloke's Mill, it represents the former concentration of smock-mill activity in this part of rural Kent.
The mill worked until about 1908. It collapsed on 20 May 1910, ending the survival of the complete smock structure. The cap, sails, windshaft, smock body, and working machinery no longer survive as a complete windmill installation.
The site remains a recorded windmill survival through its remains and its place in Kent windmill gazetteers. Dilnot's Old Mill is therefore a fragmentary former mill site, preserving the record of a mid-nineteenth-century Waltham smock corn mill that survived only briefly after the end of working use.
Timeline
1850
Smock mill built
Dilnot's Old Mill was built around 1850 as a smock corn mill.
1908
Wind milling ended
The mill worked until about 1908.
1910
Mill collapsed
Dilnot's Old Mill collapsed on 20 May 1910.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references
Kent Mills Society references
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references
Kent Mills Society references