by Maurice Lawson Finch
ISBN/Cat.No... 185770 317 0
Size... A5 Portrait
Binding... Paperback
Status... In stock
Publication Date... 1 November 2006
Pages... 112
Price... £7.50 + £1.50 p&p
TOTAL £9.00
Summary
From 1155 the power of the wind was used in Sussex to grind corn. By the beginning of the 19th Century almost every town and village has one or more windmills. Today only a few remain and can be visited and perhaps seen working. However the sites are still there, some converted to handsome country houses some in the process of restoration and some offering just foundation marks and a wonderful view.
This book, a companion volume to ‘Windmills at Work in East Sussex’, is packed with pictures of West Sussex mill sites then and now, lists them in alphabetical order with map references. It also details the fires and fatalities; the storms and the lightning strikes and the odd and unexpected things that happened to the mills and their millers.
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