1765
Post mill built
Duncton Mill was built at Clayton as a post windmill.
Site overview
Duncton Mill was a post mill at Clayton in West Sussex. It stood on the windmill ridge later associated with the Clayton windmills. The post mill was built in 1765 and was demolished in 1866.
Jack, the brick tower mill, was built shortly afterwards on the Clayton windmill site. Duncton Mill no longer survives as a standing post mill.
Map
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History
Duncton Mill stood at Clayton in West Sussex, on the ridge above the Hassocks and Clayton area. It was a post windmill and worked as a corn mill before the later tower mill was built at the same windmill group. The mill was built in 1765.
It remained part of the Clayton milling landscape until the nineteenth century, when a new tower mill was built nearby. Duncton Mill was demolished in 1866. The site then became associated with the surviving Clayton windmill group, but the original post mill itself no longer survives.
Timeline
1866
Post mill demolished
Duncton Mill was demolished in 1866.
Sources and records
Sussex Mills Group windmill gazetteer
List of windmills in West Sussex
Clayton Windmills visitor information
List of windmills in West Sussex
Clayton Windmills visitor information