SIMMONS COLLECTION CATALOGUE ITEM: 1128783 TITLE Windmill Notes by Simmons – HADLOW DOWN to WORTHING. Press Cuttings from the Sussex Advertiser and Sussex Weekly Advertiser. 32 Hadlow Down. For lease or sale, a dwelling house, garden, windmill, cottage etc., in Feb 1825; the windmill alone, in May 1825; the windmill and cottage, in April 1828. 33 Hailsham. Windmill for sale, in Feb 1805; a farm with a windmill, in June 1824; a post mill with spring sails, in March 1851; a windmill recently erected, in Feb 1856; lease of Hailsham Old Mill, in May 1861; a brood of 33 mice found in Mr Woodhams’ windmill, in July 1813; sale of Mr Woodhams’ decd. Windmill, in April 1869; sale and removal of Post Corn Mill, in Dec 1869; sale of the Post Windmill, recently erected on Harebeating Hill and now fitted with steam driving gear, in Nov 1874; sale of Hamlins or Lower Mill, with 3 pairs of stones and a 7 HP steam engine, in July 1879. 34 Hamsey. Lease available of Hamsey Common windmill, in Oct 1835; theft of flour from Mr Sicklemore’s windmill on Spital Hill, in Dec 1797; post windmill on Hamsey Common for sale, in Nov 1875; during a storm in August 1826, “a portion of the swifts of our windmill, nigh to our race-course, was struck …”. 35 Hastings. Sale of the Priory Mill and grounds, in May 1781, now occupied by Mr Carswell; death of a 3-y-o girl at William Web’s mill when ‘the swifts’ struck her head, in May 1804; in Feb 1808 Mr Castel’s windmill was blown down while the grinder was at work and, although he escaped with very little hurt, he was in such shock that he couldn’t say what had happened: on the same occasion the sweeps were blown off Mr French’s mill; Mr French’s mill up for sale in April 1818, when he retired; Mr French’s mill auctioned in June 1818; Mr Rowe Carswell’s mill, with cottage, stable, cart lodge and hog pound, for sale in Feb 1803; sale or lease of a smock mill with bake- house, or with a warehouse and acre of land, in Apr 1819; sale of the windmill on West Hill, in March 1821; sale of lease of late Mr John French’s smock windmill, in Jan 1824; same again in July 1824; gale damage on Western Hill in Oct 1825, near to where Mr Carswell’s mill used to stand; sale or lease of a Corn Windmill, in Aug 1833 and still to be let in May 1834; sale or lease of the windmill on West Hill, in March 1853; sale of Corn Windmill on East Hill, in Aug 1862; sale of windmill on West Hill, in Sep 1864; lease of windmill on West Hill, in May 1816; sale of Corn windmill, in Oct 1843; vacancy for a journey miller, by W Rowe Carswell, in July 1809; sale and removal of Mr Carswell’s post mill, in Dec 1816; death of a boy named Mannington who was run over by a wagon laden with wheat near Mr “Cresswell”s [?=Carswell’s] windmill, in Sep 1827; sale of The Priory Mill in May 1785 and repeat offer in October; sale of windmill on West Hill, with bake-house etc. for rent, in March 1821. 36 Haywards Heath. Sale and removal of windmill, in Feb 1805. 37 Heathfield. Sale of windmill, in March 1791: a viewing could be arranged with MR James King of Silver-Hill Mill, Salehurst, Sussex, or Mr William Langley Sen. , miller, at Sandhurst in Kent; sale of windmill on High-down Hill, in July 1793; sale of Blackheath Mill on Heathfield Down, in June 1817; gale damage blew off one of the swifts on Heathfield windmill, in Oct 1825; lease of Broad Oak Mill with house, buildings and land, in Sept 1905; sale of a post mill with fantail on boundaries of Heathfield and Burwash parishes, in Feb 1843; sale of the post mill near the Crown Inn, Heathfield, in March 1850; lease of Broad Oak windmill as present tenant leaving, in March 1858; sale of water , wind and seed mills situate between The Clappers and Horeham in Heathfield parish, in April 1862; sale of windmill, in Jan 1812; sale of Mutton Hall Mill with cottages, outbuildings and 8 acres in Heathfield and Waldron parishes, in Feb 1869; Sale of Rock Hill Mill, in Sep 1863 and again in Feb 1873; child found drowned in a dyke near Heathfield windmill, in July 1828; Broad Oak Flour Mill burnt to the ground, in March 1890, but the direction of the wind saved the nearby steam Mill; John Luck, prisoner, committed for breaking and entering a mill in Heathfield, in March 1841. 38 Hellingly. Sale of a windmill plus appurtenances, in April 1781; sale of post mill at North Street, in Nov 1824; lease of a wind corn mill in Aug 1830, and again in Sep 1831, and again in Aug 1863. 39 Henfield. Lease of a recently built smock mill with out-buildings, in Aug 1823; sale of estate on south side of Henfield Common, including a windmill and all ancillary buildings, in June 1827; fire at Henfield Windmill when swifts were driven round too fast by the wind after a thunderstorm, in Feb 1789; lease of post mill, in Sep 1828. 40 Herstmonceaux. Vacancy for a journeyman grinder miller, capable of working without supervision, in Feb 1769; sale of Herstmonceaux wind mill with granary and stable, in Nov 1783 and again advertised in Feb 1784; sale of the same mill in Nov 1798; sale of a newly-erected windmill at Bodle-Street Green, in April 1807, and again in August 1819, and again in Jan 1823; sale of the “four post” windmill on Windmill Hill occupied by Edward Beaney, in Jan 1831; mention in Jan 1844 of Mr Beaney’s mill “near the milestone beyond Gardner Street”; sale of late Mr Beaney’s windmill, in Aug 1872; death of boy struck by swifts at Herstmonceaux windmill, in Nov 1803. 41 East Hoathly. Destruction by fire of a windmill at East Hoathly, in Mar 1824; subsequent call for a public subscription to recompense the miller, Samuel Holman, for his loss; vacancy for a journeyman miller to assist Mr George Holman, in Mar 1830; change of miller to Joseph Martin in succession to the Holmans, in Oct 1831; sale of Messrs Marten & Co’s brick built post mill, in Apr 1841; lease of windmill with bake-house, in Mar 1851; serious damage to windmills by gale, in Dec 1836. 42 West Hoathly. Sale of a house and wind-mill on Selsfield Common, in Aug 1800; sale of a newly- erected windmill, in June 1815. 43 Hooe. Sale of post mill, in Sept 1821; sale of windmill and land, in Dec 1829; sale of newly-built smock mill, in Sep 1848; lease of newly-built smock mill, in May 1849; sale of that mill, in March 1850. 50 Horsham. Vacancy for a journeyman Miller by John Champion, in March 1772; presumed sale notice for a post windmill and cottage on Horsham Common, in Oct 1841; sale of same mill in November; sale of windmill with newly erected stable and hog pound, in Feb 1812; sale of a smock mill, in April 1814; sale of lease of Smock mill near The Star on Horsham Common, in Sep 1819; sale of the same in Oct 1825; and again when James Jupp had gone bankrupt, in July 1826; sale of a post mill on Horsham Common, in Nov 1841; sale of the effects of William Browning now quitting milling, in Jan 1854; sale and removal of Post Mill situate near Dog and Bacon Inn, in Mar 1869; notice to the creditors of Elijah Prior, miller and corn dealer, in Nov 1815; fire destroyed the Cripplegate Mill at Southwater but was stopped from spreading by the Horsham Fire Brigade (Capt. H C Hunt), in May 1914. 51 Hunston. Sale of Kipstone Bank Windmill, in Mar 1832. NB Numbering system has gone a bit out of order ! 44 Icklesham. Lease of a windmill on the marshland, in Oct 1849; sale of the smock mill called Telegraph Mill now with auxiliary steam power, along with dwelling house, garden, paddock and two cottages, in Jan 1877; sale again in Mar 1883, and in July 1884. 44a Iden. Sale or lease of a windmill plus cottage, in Mar 1844; position required by a respectable young man as a grinder, in Feb 1859. 45 Jevington. Seizure of smuggled brandy and Geneva near the windmill, on Dec 31st 1787. 46 Keymer. Lease or sale of windmill with cottage and garden adjoining on St John’s Common, in April 1811; sale of post mill on St John’s Common in May 1815, again in Jan 1816, and yet again in May 1822; lease of a post mill, in July 1869 for occupation on Michaelmas next; sale of the household effects of Mr George Bennett, of Old Land Mill, including a miller’s cart, in Oct 1824. 47 Kingston. Sale of leasehold windmill and stable on Kinston Hill near Southover, in May 1828; sale of Kingston Mill, in May 1837; lease of Kingstone windmills, in July 1843; storm damage to Mr Peascodd’s windmill’s sweeps, in Feb 1807; theft from Mr Pescod’s windmill near Kingston Lain, in Feb 1820; very considerable damage to Mr James Weller of Southover’s windmill, in Sep 1839. 48 Lancing. Lease of windmill, in Dec 1791; a hurricane on August 28, 1774 blew down five barns, greatly damaged six houses, tore up many trees and slightly damaged a windmill in Lancing.