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Corn milling function recorded
Great Burstead Post Mill is recorded as a post mill used for grain or corn milling.
Site overview
Great Burstead Post Mill was a post corn mill at Great Burstead. Specialist mill records identify the site as a post mill and record a grain-milling function. The surviving remains are unusual and visible in reduced form: four high brick piers and two large timbers survive on a high mill mound, now very overgrown within woodland.
The timber mill body, sails, and machinery have gone, but the remaining mound, piers, and timbers preserve the structural base of the former post mill. The site now survives as a wooded remnant of Great Burstead's wind-powered corn-milling landscape.
Map
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History
Great Burstead Post Mill was a former post mill used for grain or corn milling. The site is recorded by specialist mill sources and is represented today by structural remains on a high mill mound.
The surviving elements include four high brick piers and two large timbers. These remains are very overgrown within woodland, but they preserve part of the former post-mill base after the loss of the timber body, sails, and working machinery. The combination of mound, brick piers, and timbers gives the site more visible structural character than many site-only post mill locations.
Great Burstead Post Mill is now a reduced but legible remnant of a wind-powered corn mill. Its surviving mound and base elements record the former position and construction of the post mill within the Great Burstead landscape.
Timeline
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Brick piers and timbers survive
Four high brick piers and two large timbers survive on a high mill mound.
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Woodland survival recorded
The remaining post mill base is recorded as very overgrown within woodland.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Photographers Resource Essex windmill list
Mills Archive site record
Photographers Resource Essex windmill list