Highdown New Mill Angmering · Sussex · England

Highdown New Mill stands on the west side of Highdown above Ecclesden Manor at Angmering. It is also known as Ecclesden Mill, reflecting its position within the Ecclesden landscape. The mill was built in 1826 for Henry Grant and formed part of the nineteenth-century group of wind-powered corn mills around Angmering.

The mill was a four-storey brick tower mill. It had four patent sails and a beehive cap winded by a fantail, allowing the cap and sails to face automatically into the wind. Its machinery drove two pairs of millstones. Timothy Pierce is recorded as miller between 1829 and 1872, and the mill worked as a corn mill until 1872.

In 1880 the cap and sails were blown off. After that loss the tower ceased to retain the full working form of the windmill. By the 1930s it had become an ivy-clad ruin. The tower survived, however, and in the early 1970s it was converted into a house. Later alterations included cladding the tower in wooden shingles. Highdown New Mill remains a converted tower-mill survival and should be kept distinct from the other Angmering and Highdown-area mill sites.