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Corn milling function recorded
Great Holland Smock Mill is recorded as a smock mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Great Holland Smock Mill was a smock corn mill at Great Holland, near Frinton-on-Sea. Specialist mill records identify the site as a smock mill used for corn milling, with a derelict base surviving. Historic photographs show the mill in the 1930s and later photographic register material recorded it disused and without sails in 1949.
The truncated smock mill burnt down in 1985, leaving the base as the surviving element. The site now preserves a reduced remnant of Great Holland's former wind-powered corn-milling landscape.
Map
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History
Great Holland Smock Mill was a former smock corn mill at Great Holland. It stood close to the coast near Frinton-on-Sea and is recorded in specialist mill sources as a wind-powered corn mill.
Photographic records show the mill in the 1930s, and later photographic register material recorded Great Holland smock mill in 1949 as disused and without sails. The mill survived in truncated form until 1985, when it burnt down. The remaining survival is described as a derelict base.
The site is therefore no longer a complete smock mill, but it retains a physical base that marks the position of the former structure. Great Holland Smock Mill preserves a reduced but identifiable remnant of local wind-powered corn milling in the coastal Essex landscape.
Timeline
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Derelict base survives
The former smock mill site is recorded as a derelict base.
1930–1939
Smock mill photographed
Historic photographs recorded Great Holland Smock Mill in the 1930s.
1949
Disused mill without sails recorded
Great Holland Smock Mill was recorded as disused and without sails in 1949.
1985
Truncated smock mill burnt down
The truncated smock mill burnt down in 1985.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Mills Archive photographic record
Guy Blythman photographic register addenda
Mills Archive site record
Mills Archive photographic record
Guy Blythman photographic register addenda