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Corn milling function recorded
High Laver Post Mill is recorded as a post mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
High Laver Post Mill was a post corn mill at High Laver. Specialist mill records identify the site as a post mill used for corn milling and describe the survival as the mill mound only. A comparative study of Essex windmills records the narrow causeway on the east side of the High Laver mill mound as an example of access to a post mill mound.
The post mill body, sails, trestle, roundhouse, and machinery have gone, leaving the earthwork mound as the visible survival. The site preserves the position of a former wind-powered corn mill within the High Laver landscape.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
High Laver Post Mill was a former post corn mill. The surviving feature is the mill mound, marking the former position of the windmill after the loss of the timber mill body and working machinery.
Specialist mill records identify the site as a post mill with a corn-milling function and describe the survival as the mound only. A comparative survey of Essex windmills notes the narrow causeway on the east side of the High Laver mill mound as an example of how carts could approach a mound-based post mill.
The site is therefore an earthwork survival rather than a standing mill. The mound and causeway preserve the location and working landscape of High Laver's former post mill, giving the site archaeological and topographical legibility even though the mill structure itself has gone.
Timeline
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Mill mound survives
The former post mill site is represented by its surviving mill mound.
2021
Causeway noted on mound
A comparative Essex windmill study noted the narrow causeway on the east side of the High Laver mill mound.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Windmills in Essex comparative survey
Mills Archive site record
Windmills in Essex comparative survey