Bocking Windmill

Although a build date of 1680 is often quoted, Bocking Windmill was actually built in 1721 at a position some 170 yd to the west (TL 761 260 ) of its present site. The first mention of the mill was in an indenture dated 19 April 1721 where the lease of land that had been enclosed for the building of a windmill was sold to Joseph Nash, miller of Halstead for £11. The mill was marked on Warburton, Bland and Smyth's map dated c1724. The mill was conveyed to Joseph Nash Jr in April 1772, who promptly mortgaged the mill for £100. Thomas French, miller of Halstead, purchased the mill for £135 on the death of the mortgagee c1734. French sold the mill in 1774 to Bartholomew Brown, of Wethersfield…

Bocking Windmill is a post mill with a two-storey roundhouse. It has two common sails and two spring sails carried on a wooden windshaft. Two pairs of millstones are located in the breast. The mill is winded by a tailpole. The mill is 43 ft high to the roof.