1884
Hollow-post mill built
Elphick's Farm Mill was built around this year as a hollow-post mill at Ditchling.
Site overview
Elphick's Farm Mill at Ditchling was a hollow-post mill. It was built around 1884 and was last recorded in 1904. The mill has not survived as a standing structure, and no surviving body, trestle, sails, windshaft, or machinery has been confirmed at the site.
Map
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History
Elphick's Farm Mill stood at Ditchling as a hollow-post windmill. It was built around 1884 and represented a late nineteenth-century windmill site in the parish. The mill was last recorded in 1904.
The standing structure has gone, and no surviving mill body, trestle, sails, windshaft, or working machinery has been confirmed at the location. The site is therefore recorded as a former hollow-post mill site rather than as a surviving windmill structure.
Timeline
1904
Final recorded date
The hollow-post mill was last recorded by this year.
Sources and records
List of windmills in East Sussex
Windmill World Sussex windmills gazetteer
Sussex Mills Group windmills gazetteer
Windmill World Sussex windmills gazetteer
Sussex Mills Group windmills gazetteer