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Site overview

Miles' Mill was a smock corn mill at Boughton Street. The Mills Archive identifies the site as a wind-powered smock corn mill in the historic county of Kent, with the location recorded at Boughton Street. Windmill World records the survival as a single-storey roofed smock base.

The site is therefore a reduced but physical survival of a former wind-powered corn mill, retaining the lower structure after the loss of the smock body, cap, sails, fantail, and working machinery. The surviving base preserves the location and footprint of one of Boughton Street's former windmills.

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History

Miles' Mill at Boughton Street 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 modern windmill gazetteers identify the site with the surviving single-storey roofed base.

The mill no longer survives as a complete smock mill. Its upper body, cap, sails, fantail, and working machinery have gone, leaving the lower base as the principal visible survival. The roofed base preserves the footprint and lower fabric of the former wind-powered corn mill within the Boughton Street landscape. Miles' Mill is therefore a modest but recognisable survival of a Kent smock mill, represented by its retained base rather than by a restored or converted full-height windmill.

Timeline

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Smock corn mill recorded

Miles' Mill is recorded as a wind-powered smock corn mill at Boughton Street.
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Roofed base survives

The former smock mill survives as a single-storey roofed base.

Sources and records

Mills Archive site record
Windmill World site entry
Archives Hub windmill image record
List of windmills in Kent
Kent windmill reference works