KNEPP WINDMILL

In 1754, John Wicker bought Knepp and immediately commissioned James Crow to prepare a detailed survey of the estate. This invaluable map still hangs in the Estate Office today. It shows that the estate had already been disemparked, and that the area of the former deer park had been given over to agricultural use, divided into a number of largely rectilinear fields. It also confirms the existence of Knepp Mill Pond, and shows the location of a Mill building at its southern end, with a windmill sited close-by. I am intrigued, as a search through the Burrell archives is strangely silent on this important piece of industrial archaeology. When was it built? When did it go? Who was the miller? So many questions. Anyone studied the mills in this part of West Sussex?

S.H. Grimm, the artist, painted a watercolour of the mill pond and windmill in 1788

Please contact me if you have any knowledge about this lost mill.

HDAG OPENS ITS OWN NEW WEBSITE!!

Hurrah!! I get my blogsite back to myself again!!!

Horsham District Archaeology Group has a NEW Website!!. All future news will be posted on the new site which can be found at:   http://horshamarchaeologygroup.webs.com/

if you wish to contact the society, then you can email horshamarch@hotmail.co.uk

I have been hosting the group on this site for 12 months now whist it was finding its feet, but now it has launched its own website there is no further need to post up details here.


So I can now continue posting up on this site relevant archaeological data which interests me and, I hope, be of interest to others.