Great Hormead Smock Mill Great Hormead · Hertfordshire · England

Great Hormead Smock Mill was a wind-powered corn mill at Great Hormead. It stood close to the Great Hormead post mill, forming a paired windmill site that was recorded in several twentieth-century photographs. The smock mill appears in archive views both as a standing mill and in relation to the neighbouring post mill.

The mill records identify it as a smock corn mill. Photographic archive descriptions include views of the front of the smock mill, the smock seen from the post mill, the bolter, the great spur wheel, and later wreckage. A photographic record from 1925 shows the smock mill derelict with four sails, while 1947 images show a roofed-over smock tower. Other photographs recorded wreckage on the ground.

The mill no longer survives as a complete smock mill with cap, sails, and full machinery. Its present significance rests on the recorded site, the remains of the mill, and the unusually well-documented relationship with the neighbouring post mill. Together, the Great Hormead mills preserve the memory of a local wind-powered corn-milling group rather than a single isolated mill structure.