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Smock corn mill operated
Higham Windmill was a smock mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Higham Windmill was a smock corn mill at Higham in north Kent. Specialist mill records identify the site as a smock mill and record that the surviving base has been used as a garage or store. The full windmill body, cap, sails, windshaft, and working machinery have gone, leaving the lower structure as the surviving element.
Although the physical remains are reduced, the base preserves the former position of a wind-powered corn mill within the village landscape between Gravesend and Rochester.
Map
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History
Higham Windmill was a smock corn mill at Higham. The mill formed part of the village's wind-powered milling landscape in north Kent, where the surviving site is now represented by the base of the former smock mill.
The complete mill no longer survives. The upper smock, cap, sails, windshaft, and machinery have gone, leaving the lower base. Specialist mill records describe the remaining base as used as a garage or store, indicating a practical post-milling reuse rather than preservation as a working mill.
The site is therefore a reduced survival. Its importance is in retaining a physical trace of the former Higham smock mill and preserving the location of a wind-powered corn-milling site within a village that lies close to the historic route between Gravesend and Rochester.
Timeline
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Base reused
The surviving base of the former smock mill has been used as a garage or store.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Windmill World Kent windmills list
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references
Windmill World Kent windmills list
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references