Hook's Mill - Potton Road, Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, UK - Windmills on Waymarking.com

The tower is the only remaining part of the windmill and at the moment it is under reestoration with scaffolding supporting it all the way round. Next to the windmill is a watermill with a large chimney though this is hidden in the vegetation in our photographs. It is clearer here (visit link)

The windmill is first mentioned (visit link) before 1150 when William Peverel was granted a mill with his manor. This passed to the Haseldens in 1279 and it obtained the name Hook's Mill in the 1530s. The 14th and 16th centuries record millers using the site until when in 1649 the mill was sold to Lord Hatley St George and then to Thomas Quintin of Hatley.

The Dickasons then bought the mill in 1828 followed by the Sandersons in 1865 who worked the mill until 1920. It is this date which records a water mill assisted by an oil-fired engine, and a brick tower windmill. Sadly the water mill closed in the 1930s and became derelict by 1930 losing its sails by 1975.

Purpose: Milling Is This Windmill Functional?: No Date of Manufacture: Not listed Open to the public: Not Listed Windmill Farm: Not Listed Cost: Not Listed Museum on Site: Not Listed

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Date Logged Log User Rating   10/11/2009 bill&ben visited it

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