Site overview

Kithurst Warren Windmill Site is recorded here as a probable former windmill site on or near Kithurst Warren, west of Sullington. The site has been separated from Sullington Warren Windmill because the supplied coordinate lies away from the better-documented Sullington Warren / White Mill / Warren Mill / Crowhurst's Mill location, and the historic map evidence marks this western point simply as “Windmill”. The available evidence supports a cautious identification as a former wind-powered corn-milling site, but does not confirm a surviving structure, machinery, miller sequence, construction date, working chronology, or final demolition date.

The record should therefore be retained as a site-only windmill location unless later source evidence confirms that it represents the same mill as Sullington Warren / White Mill.

Map

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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.

History

Kithurst Warren Windmill Site is a probable former windmill site on or near Kithurst Warren, west of Sullington. The site is distinguished from the better-documented Sullington Warren Windmill, also known as White Mill, Warren Mill or Crowhurst's Mill, whose surviving windshaft remains on Sullington Warren. The coordinate for this record lies further west, and the historic map evidence identifies the point as “Windmill” in the Kithurst Warren area.

The available evidence does not yet establish whether the Kithurst Warren map label represents a separate named mill, a locally recorded post mill, a map-positioned windmill symbol, or a displaced reference to the wider Sullington windmill landscape. Because of that uncertainty, the site is best recorded cautiously as a former windmill site rather than as a surviving mill or as a duplicate of Sullington Warren Windmill. No secure construction date, ownership history, machinery description, miller sequence, final working date, demolition date, or surviving physical remains have been confirmed for this specific coordinate.

The record remains important because the historic map label indicates a windmill presence or windmill association in the Kithurst Warren area. Further checking against tithe mapping, early Ordnance Survey mapping, Sussex windmill lists, and local estate records may allow the site to be identified more precisely. Until that work is completed, this entry should not use the detailed history of Sullington Warren / White Mill, whose documented site and surviving windshaft are better represented by the separate Sullington Warren Windmill Site record.

Timeline

Windmill shown near Kithurst Warren

Historic map evidence marks a windmill at or near the supplied Kithurst Warren location. The date of construction and the exact identity of the mill have not yet been established.
Operation

Probable wind-powered milling site

The site is treated as a probable former wind-powered corn-milling location. No secure working chronology, miller sequence, machinery description, or final working date has been confirmed for this specific coordinate.

Recorded as site-only windmill location

No surviving mill body, machinery, roundhouse, tower, or other confirmed physical remains have been identified for this specific Kithurst Warren point. The record is retained as a site-only windmill location pending further map and source review.

Sources and records

Historic map evidence supplied by database review; comparison with Sullington Warren / White Mill / Warren Mill / Crowhurst's Mill records; Sussex windmill references for Sullington Warren; Worthing Archaeological Society Sullington Warren archaeological and land-use history report; Geograph record for White Mill windshaft, Sullington Warren.