1855
Bridge Mill recorded
Bridge Mill is recorded as a post corn mill at Rustington from 1855.
Site overview
Rustington Bridge Mill was a post corn mill at Rustington in West Sussex. It stood close to the railway bridge on the north side of the road to Littlehampton and should be distinguished from the other Rustington windmill sites recorded in the parish. Bridge Mill is recorded from the mid nineteenth century and ceased working in 1894.
It was demolished shortly afterwards. The site is now a former windmill site rather than a surviving mill structure, but it preserves the identity of one of Rustington's named nineteenth-century corn mills.
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History
Rustington Bridge Mill was one of several historic windmill sites recorded in Rustington. It stood close to the railway bridge on the north side of the road to Littlehampton, giving rise to the Bridge Mill name. It was a post mill and worked as a corn mill, serving the agricultural and village economy of nineteenth-century Rustington.
The mill is separately identified from Sea Field Mill and the other Rustington mill site that was moved to Fishbourne in 1857. Bridge Mill is recorded from 1855 and remained in use into the later nineteenth century. Its working life ended in 1894, after which it was demolished shortly afterwards.
The site is now best recorded as a former post corn mill site. No complete mill body survives, but the name and location remain important for distinguishing Rustington's individual windmill sites and for preserving the record of Bridge Mill within the parish's wind-powered corn-milling history.
Timeline
1894
Mill ceased working
Bridge Mill ceased working in 1894.
1894–1900
Mill demolished
The post mill was demolished shortly after it ceased working.
Sources and records
Sussex Mills Group lost mills entry: Rustington Bridge Mill
List of windmills in West Sussex
Rustington local history photographic material
List of windmills in West Sussex
Rustington local history photographic material