1620
Post mill recorded
Patcham post mill was recorded by this year.
Site overview
Patcham had a post mill north of Brighton. The mill was recorded from the early seventeenth century and appeared on eighteenth-century mapping. It had gone by the end of the eighteenth century.
No standing post mill structure survives at the site.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Patcham post mill was one of the windmills associated with the downland village north of Brighton. It was recorded from 1620 and appeared on maps including eighteenth-century mapping. The mill was last recorded in 1791.
No standing mill body, roundhouse, trestle, sails, or machinery survives at the site. The site is therefore treated as a former post mill location rather than as a surviving windmill structure.
Timeline
1724
Mill mapped
The post mill appeared on eighteenth-century mapping.
1791
Final recorded date
The post mill was last recorded by this year.
Sources and records
List of windmills in East Sussex
Windmill World Sussex windmills gazetteer
My Brighton and Hove Patcham local history material
Windmill World Sussex windmills gazetteer
My Brighton and Hove Patcham local history material