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Smock corn mill recorded
The site is recorded as a smock mill used for corn milling at Rushden.
Site overview
Rushden smock mill stood at Rushden in Northamptonshire and is recorded as a wind-powered corn mill. The surviving windmill inventory places the smock mill at the supplied coordinates and identifies it as a surviving mill site. Archive records describe the site as a smock mill and specifically record a surviving base.
The available evidence establishes the mill type, corn-milling function, Rushden location and physical survival of the base, but does not provide a secure construction date, named millwright, sail arrangement, full machinery description, miller sequence or final working date. The site is therefore best treated as a former smock corn mill with fragmentary survival, rather than as a complete standing mill.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Rushden smock mill is recorded as a wind-powered corn mill in Northamptonshire. It stood at Rushden, not Higham Ferrers, and modern windmill inventories place the surviving site at the supplied coordinates. The mill type is identified as a smock mill rather than a tower mill, and the function is recorded as corn milling.
Archive material includes a record titled Rushden, Base, Northants, indicating that the principal surviving element is the base rather than a complete smock body with cap and sails. The accessible sources do not provide a full construction history, named millwright, details of stones or gearing, a sequence of working millers, or a final working and dismantling date. The secure history is therefore limited but clear: this was a Rushden smock corn mill, and the site now preserves only partial structural remains associated with the former mill base.
Timeline
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Mill base recorded
Archive material records the surviving base of the former Rushden smock mill.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Rushden windmill
Mills Archive entry: Smock mill, Rushden
Muggeridge Collection photographic record: Rushden base
Northants Wind and Watermills article references
Mills Archive entry: Smock mill, Rushden
Muggeridge Collection photographic record: Rushden base
Northants Wind and Watermills article references