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Hurst Mill recorded
Hurst Mill is recorded among Hothfield mill sites in Kent mill archive material.
Site overview
Hurst Mill is recorded at Hothfield in Kent mill archive material. The site is associated with Hurst Mill Cottage on Ram Lane and appears in collections that preserve notes and photographs for Hothfield mill sites. The public record available for the site is strongest for its identification and location rather than for a detailed working chronology.
It is therefore best treated as a former windmill or mill site in the Hothfield landscape, with surviving documentary and photographic references preserving the name and setting of the historic mill location.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Hurst Mill is a recorded Hothfield mill site associated with Ram Lane and Hurst Mill Cottage. Archive material for Kent mills refers to Hurst Mill and Hothfield Mill in the same local group, and property records preserve the Hurst Mill Cottage name at Hothfield.
The detailed working sequence of the windmill is not as fully published as that of some larger Kent windmills, but the site remains identifiable through mill archive references and the survival of the Hurst Mill place-name. The site is therefore included as a former Hothfield mill location, preserving the association of the name, locality, and surviving documentary record within the county's windmill landscape.
Timeline
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Hurst Mill place-name survives
The Hurst Mill name survives in association with Hurst Mill Cottage at Hothfield.
Sources and records
Mills Archive catalogue references
University of Kent CP Davies Collection of Mills and Milling index
Hothfield local history references
Kent windmill reference works
University of Kent CP Davies Collection of Mills and Milling index
Hothfield local history references
Kent windmill reference works