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Corn milling function recorded
Bulmer Mill is recorded as a smock mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Bulmer Mill, also known as Ballingdon Mill, was a smock corn mill at Bulmer. Essex windmill lists record the mill as built in 1793 and demolished in August 1928. Specialist mill records identify the site as a smock mill and record its function as corn milling, with the base surviving.
The mill belonged to the Ballingdon and Bulmer milling landscape near the Essex-Suffolk border. The present survival is therefore a reduced base rather than a complete smock mill, preserving the position of the former timber mill within the Bulmer landscape.
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History
Bulmer Mill was a former smock corn mill at Bulmer and is also recorded as Ballingdon Mill. It stood in the Essex-Suffolk border landscape close to Sudbury and Ballingdon, an area associated with smock-mill building and milling activity.
The mill is recorded as having been built in 1793. It was a smock mill used for corn milling. Essex windmill lists record its demolition in August 1928, while specialist mill records identify the present survival as a base. The working timber superstructure has therefore gone, leaving a reduced structural remnant rather than a complete mill.
Bulmer Mill now survives through its base and documentary record. The site preserves the location of a late eighteenth-century smock corn mill in the Bulmer landscape and provides a physical reminder of the former wind-powered milling activity near Ballingdon and Sudbury.
Timeline
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Base survives
The former smock mill site is recorded as surviving by its base.
1793
Smock mill constructed
Bulmer Mill, also known as Ballingdon Mill, was built in 1793.
1928
Smock mill demolished
Bulmer Mill was demolished in August 1928.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Essex
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Essex