1780–1807
Post mill built
Bodle Street Green Mill was built as a post mill in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
Site overview
Bodle Street Green Mill was a post mill at Bodle Street Green near Herstmonceux. It was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century and worked as a wind-powered corn mill. The mill was still standing in the early twentieth century and was photographed in disuse during the 1930s.
It had ceased working by the mid-1920s and later disappeared from the site.
Map
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History
Bodle Street Green Mill stood at Bodle Street Green, north of Windmill Hill and near Herstmonceux. It was a post mill, the traditional Sussex form in which the timber body turned on a central post to face the wind. The mill is associated with corn milling and was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
It remained part of the local milling landscape into the twentieth century. By the mid-1920s it had ceased working, and by the 1930s it survived as a disused white post mill. The later demolition date has not been established, but no standing mill structure survives at the site.
Timeline
1920–1929
Working life ended
The mill had ceased working by the mid-1920s.
1935–1936
Disused mill survived
The white post mill still stood in disuse during the 1930s.
Sources and records
Sussex Mills Group lost mills entry
Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society newsletter
Mills Archive catalogue material
List of windmills in East Sussex
Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society newsletter
Mills Archive catalogue material
List of windmills in East Sussex