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Former mill site recorded
The site remains recorded as the former location of a smock corn mill at Herne Bay.
Site overview
Herne Bay Mill, also known as The Bay Mill, was a smock corn mill at Herne Bay. It was built by 1839 and formed part of the early milling landscape of the developing seaside town. The mill was demolished in 1878, leaving no complete windmill structure on the site.
Specialist mill records identify the former site as a smock mill, while Kent windmill lists preserve its name, type, and demolition date. The present site is therefore a former windmill location rather than a standing survival.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Herne Bay Mill was a smock corn mill at Herne Bay. It is also recorded as The Bay Mill, a name reflecting its association with the coastal settlement rather than the older inland village of Herne. The mill was built by 1839 and worked as a wind-powered corn mill during the nineteenth century.
The mill did not survive into the twentieth century. It was demolished in 1878, and no cap, sails, smock body, windshaft, stones, or other working machinery remains on site. The site is preserved in specialist mill records and Kent windmill lists as the former location of a nineteenth-century smock corn mill.
Herne Bay Mill is therefore a site-only record. Its value lies in documenting one of the wind-powered corn mills associated with the growth of Herne Bay and the wider north-east Kent milling landscape.
Timeline
1839
Smock mill recorded
Herne Bay Mill was recorded by 1839 as a smock corn mill.
1878
Mill demolished
The Bay Mill at Herne Bay was demolished in 1878.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references