Kennington Windmill Kennington · Kent · England

Kennington Windmill stood on Mill Lane at Kennington, north of Ashford. It was built in 1813 by the Hill family, Ashford millwrights, and formed part of a larger mill complex that combined wind, steam, and water power. The watermill was powered by the Kennington Stream, while the windmill and steam mill stood within the same industrial group.

The windmill was a smock corn mill. In the later nineteenth century the mills were associated with H. S. Pledge & Sons, who operated several mills in the Ashford area, and in 1892 Charles Stanley took the mills. The windmill ceased working by wind in the early twentieth century. Its sails were later taken to Pluckley Windmill when Kennington mills closed. By the 1930s the smock mill was an empty shell, and photographs from the 1930s and 1940s show the windmill without sails or fantail.

The smock mill had disappeared by 1952, when it was demolished. The base survives, together with associated mill buildings including Mill House, Mill Cottage, and the watermill building. Kennington Windmill is therefore represented by the surviving base of the former smock mill within a rare wind, water, and steam milling complex.