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Hollow-post windpump operated
Iwade Windpump was a hollow-post windpump used for water pumping at Iwade.
Site overview
Iwade Windpump was a hollow-post windpump at Iwade, north of Sittingbourne. It was a drainage or pumping windmill rather than a corn mill, using the hollow-post form to transfer power down through the post to pumping machinery. Specialist windmill records identify the site as Iwade Windpump, and national Kent windmill lists record that some parts of the windpump were still present in 1973.
The surviving structure is now represented only by a site record and fragmentary remains rather than a complete standing windpump.
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History
Iwade Windpump was a hollow-post windpump at Iwade. The site belonged to the marshland and low-lying drainage landscape north of Sittingbourne, where wind-driven pumps were used to move water rather than grind grain. Its hollow-post form distinguishes it from the larger post, smock, and tower corn mills recorded elsewhere in Kent.
The available record identifies the site as a windpump rather than a flour mill. National windmill lists record that some parts of Iwade Windpump were still present in 1973. The complete windpump no longer stands, and the present survival is fragmentary and site-based.
Iwade Windpump therefore represents a reduced drainage-windmill site. Its importance lies in recording a hollow-post pumping mill within the north Kent marshland landscape, where wind power had a practical water-management role.
Timeline
1973
Parts recorded
Some parts of the windpump were still present in 1973.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references
Kent Mills Society references
List of windmills in Kent
Mills Archive catalogue references
Kent Mills Society references