Monument record 0536000000 - PITSTONE QUARRY Post Mill

Summary

Site of eighteenth to nineteenth century post mill, known from historic records, destroyed by quarrying

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Type and Period (1)

  • POST MILL (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Post and roundhouse mill, average size, 4 cloth sails, tailpole and wheel. Dating from around 1800. It was destroyed in a gale in the 1860's (5). A track, still marked on OS maps and still partly extant, led to it from the former Ship pub. The mill site was at NGR some 650m SSW of Pitstone Green Farm, but is has now been destroyed by quarrying (6)

Sources (6)

  • <1>SBC12281 Map: PITSTONE ESTATE MAP C1809 (AT BRO REF MA/166/3).
  • <2>SBC12283 Map: PITSTONE PARISH MAP C1837 (AT BRO REF MA/250/3R).
  • <3>SBC12284 Map: PITSTONE TITHE MAP 1841 (AT BRO REF 308).
  • <4>SBC12282 Map: PITSTONE INCLOSURE MAP 1856 (AT BRO REF IR/76.2).
  • <5>SBC9580 Unpublished document: MS NOTES OF S FREESE 1946.
  • <6>SBC6180 Verbal communication: HAWKINS J, 1983 PERS COMM/ARP 1983(OCT) FIELD VISIT/ OS MAP 1879 25IN, 1ST EDN/.

Location

Grid reference SP 93550 15000 (point)
Civil Parish PITSTONE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: (EBC13507)

Record last edited

Oct 4 2004 11:34AM

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