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Wandsworth Common Windmill

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28: 225:. The water was pumped into an ornamental lake on Wandsworth Common known as the Black Sea, which had been dug by Mr Wilson, the founder of Price's Candle Works. The mill was working c1870, but the Black Sea was drained and filled in around 1884. The mill then lost its purpose and ceased work, with the 252:
smock mill built on a low brick base. It had a small cap and was powered by four Patent sails. The cap was winded by a fantail. The smock stands today, with a reconstructed cap, replacing the pyramidal roof it bore in the 1960s.
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Wandsworth Common Windmill was built in 1837 to drain water from the railway cutting of the
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Grid reference
TQ 26805 74465
51°27′18″N 0°10′35″W / 51.454973°N 0.176347°W / 51.454973; -0.176347
Drainage mill
Smock mill
Patent sails
Fantail
grade II listed
smock mill
Wandsworth Common
London Borough of Wandsworth
London and Southampton Railway
sails
fantail
Mill machinery
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Historic England
"Windpump called The Windmill, Windmill Road SW18, Wandsworth, Wandsworth, Greater London (1065474)"
National Heritage List for England



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