Ripple Mill, Ringwould
This windmill is easily viewed from the A258 and yet I had a job identifying it. There is no public access road. The mill is in fact Ripple Mill, Ringwould, and is a Grade II listed three storey smock mill with a Kentish-style cap. It was built in Drellingore in the Hawkinge parish. and moved to Ringwould in the early nineteenth century. It probably replaced an earlier mill because there is a mill marked on the site on a map of 1695.
In 1895, Trinity House contributed towards repairs to the mill, which was marked as a navigational landmark.
The mill was working during the Second World War but seems to have stopped working after John Monins, the miller, died some time before the end of the war. In 1955, the mill was acquired by Rediffusion Ltd and stripped of machinery. The smock was festooned with aerials and used as a television relay station. Rediffusion sold the mill in 1976 and has since been restored as a working mill.
Ripple Mill, Ringwould
This windmill is easily viewed from the A258 and yet I had a job identifying it. There is no public access road. The mill is in fact Ripple Mill, Ringwould, and is a Grade II listed three storey smock mill with a Kentish-style cap. It was built in Drellingore in the Hawkinge parish. and moved to Ringwould in the early nineteenth century. It probably replaced an earlier mill because there is a mill marked on the site on a map of 1695.
In 1895, Trinity House contributed towards repairs to the mill, which was marked as a navigational landmark.
The mill was working during the Second World War but seems to have stopped working after John Monins, the miller, died some time before the end of the war. In 1955, the mill was acquired by Rediffusion Ltd and stripped of machinery. The smock was festooned with aerials and used as a television relay station. Rediffusion sold the mill in 1976 and has since been restored as a working mill.