Hempstead
postmill ( Holt) |
Mill site - 10th February 2020 |
Baptism records show that William Green (miller) and wife Frances, baptised their son William on 13th December 1825 at Hempstead church. |
Mill site looking towards Hempstead - Holt Road - 10th February 2020 |
Local historian Jane Hales wrote that her uncle, Basely Hales remembered a mill at Court Green, Hempstead in the early 1850s. |
O.S. Map 1831 Mill highlighted by red dot |
Tithe Map 1841 Mill site within small semicircle of Plot 94a to the bottom left of Court Green |
O.S. Map 1885 Hempstead Court Green top centre Courtesy of NLS map images |
Enclosure map 1815: . . .large postmill, complete with roundhouse and ladder Church Records 1825: William Green, miller White's 1836: Isaac Everitt, corn miller residing Hempstead (possibly Hempstead watermill) O.S. map 1838: Windmill 10th Sept 1839: Windmill, shed and yards, Owner: Richard Hanbury Gurney; Occupier: William Dawson Tithe map 1841: Plot 94a Windmill, shed and yards, Occupier: William Dawson
1852: Windmill |
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