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Corn milling function recorded
Tye Green Mill is recorded as a smock mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Tye Green Mill was a smock corn mill at Wimbish. Specialist mill records identify the site as Wimbish smock mill and more specifically as Tye Green Mill, with the surviving fabric described as a house-converted base. The mill was photographed in working order in historic photographic collections and later in derelict condition with stocks and two sail frames.
Subsequent images recorded the surviving base used as a store, and later records describe the base as converted to domestic use. The site is one of two surviving Wimbish smock-mill bases, preserving a reduced but identifiable remnant of the parish's wind-powered corn-milling landscape.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Tye Green Mill was a former smock corn mill at Wimbish. It is one of the Wimbish smock-mill sites recorded in specialist mill sources, distinct from Lower Green Mill elsewhere in the parish. The mill's recorded function was corn milling, and its surviving fabric is the base of the former smock mill.
Photographic register material preserves several stages in the mill's later history. The mill was photographed in working order, and later photographs recorded it derelict with stocks and two sail frames. Further views showed the surviving base used as a store. Modern specialist records describe the base as converted to house use.
The timber smock body, sails, cap, and working machinery have gone, leaving a converted base as the principal survival. Tye Green Mill now records the position and lower fabric of a former wind-powered corn mill within the Wimbish landscape.
Timeline
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Derelict smock mill photographed
The mill was photographed in derelict condition with stocks and two sail frames.
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Base converted to house use
The surviving base of the former smock mill was converted to domestic use.
1978
House-converted base photographed
The house-converted base of Tye Green Mill was photographed in 1978.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Guy Blythman photographic register addenda
Mills Archive site record
Guy Blythman photographic register addenda