Windmills in Kent #14 – Swingate Tower Mill Traditional Cache
Eastry Cache Bandits: I ma killing this one
Windmills in Kent #14 – Swingate Tower Mill
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This cache is located close to the windmill at the roadside. Swingate Tower Mill is a private dwelling along a narrow country lane so take care not to park too close to this property. There is space for parking near the cache which is a slight distance away from the mill so that cachers should not bother the residents.
Swingate Mill was built for John Mummery in 1849, incorporating the cap, sails, windshaft and brake wheel from a windmill that had been intended to be erected on the Rope Walk, Dover, but which was not built owing to fears that it would not function properly at the proposed site. The mill was working by wind until 1943, when the sails were damaged by enemy fire. A new pair of sails were fitted in 1947, but the mill was tail-winded in 1959 and lost its cap and sails. Falling into disrepair, photos show it as a wreck in 1986, but thankfully it has developed beautifully into a private dwelling.
Swingate Mill is a four storey tarred brick tower mill with a Kentish style cap and with projecting roundhouse on ground floor and boarded door. It had four patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. There was a stage at first floor level. The mill drove three pairs of millstones underdrift and all the machinery was cast iron.
The cache that you are looking for is a small clip-lock container. I have sited at the roadside slightly away from the mill.
If anybody would like to expand this series, please feel free to do so. All I would ask is that you let The Eastry Cache Bandits know so that they can inform you of the next number in the series to avoid duplication, and include a variation of this sentence in your cache description.
Congratulations to xjr13 for FTF
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