1873
Beech Farm Mill built
Beech Farm Mill was built as a smock mill at Whitemans Green.
Site overview
Beech Farm Mill stood at Whitemans Green, Cuckfield. It was a smock mill built in 1873 and was one of the five windmills associated with the Cuckfield area. The mill served the local agricultural district during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It was demolished in 1922.
Map
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History
Beech Farm Mill stood at Whitemans Green, Cuckfield, near Haywards Heath. It was a smock mill built in 1873 and belonged to the late phase of wind-powered corn milling in the Cuckfield area. The mill stood among a small group of local windmills serving the surrounding agricultural district.
Its detailed machinery arrangement and ownership sequence have not been established. Beech Farm Mill was demolished in 1922. The name survives in the later Beech Farm Mill property and local place references, but no standing smock-mill structure survives.
Timeline
1922
Beech Farm Mill demolished
The smock mill was demolished.
Sources and records
List of windmills in West Sussex
Cuckfield Connections article: The five windmills in the Cuckfield area
Mid Sussex District Council planning documents
Zoopla property address data for Beech Farm Mill, Whitemans Green
Cuckfield Connections article: The five windmills in the Cuckfield area
Mid Sussex District Council planning documents
Zoopla property address data for Beech Farm Mill, Whitemans Green