1588
Early Southwick mill
A windmill was associated with Southwick by the late sixteenth century.
Site overview
Southwick Mill was a smock windmill at Southwick in West Sussex. The village had a windmill beside Old Shoreham Road by the early seventeenth century, and a later Southwick windmill was remembered in the name of the Windmill Inn. The mill stood near the Upper Shoreham Road area and had gone by the mid-nineteenth century.
Its precise construction date has not been established, and no standing mill structure survives at the site.
Map
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History
Southwick Mill stood in the Southwick area of West Sussex, near the line of Old Shoreham Road and Upper Shoreham Road. A windmill was present beside Old Shoreham Road in the early seventeenth century and may have been associated with John Pride, whose mill was mentioned in 1588. A later Southwick windmill stood near the site later commemorated by the Windmill Inn.
The mill was a smock mill and worked before the later nineteenth-century expansion of Southwick. It had gone by about 1845, before the first Windmill Inn was built in the late 1850s. The site is now part of the built-up road frontage and no standing windmill structure has been confirmed.
Timeline
1845
Mill gone
The Southwick windmill had gone by about 1845.
Sources and records
Victoria County History: Southwick
The Quaffer local history article: The Windmill Inn, Southwick
Sussex Mills Group windmill gazetteer
List of windmills in West Sussex
The Quaffer local history article: The Windmill Inn, Southwick
Sussex Mills Group windmill gazetteer
List of windmills in West Sussex