Barnet Gate Mill
51°38′35″N 0°14′35″W / 51.643°N 0.243°W / 51.643; -0.243
Barnet Gate Mill or Arkley Windmill is a grade II* listed tower mill at Barnet Gate in the London Borough of Barnet, originally in Hertfordshire.[1] There is no public access.
History
Barnet Gate Mill was probably built between 1822 and 1840.[1] A claim that it was built during the Napoleonic Wars (c.1800) has not been substantiated. Although steam had been added in 1895,[2] it was working by wind until 1916.[1] The mill was restored in 1930.[3] A new cap, fantail and gallery around the cap being made. The work was done by Thomas Hunt, the Soham millwright. In a further restoration in 1985, the missing pair of sails was replaced.[2]
Description
Barnet Gate Mill is a four-storey tower mill with an ogee cap which has a gallery. It has two Patent sails and two Common sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The cap is winded by a fantail.[2]
Machinery
The mill may have started life with two Common sails and two Spring sails carried on a wooden windshaft as the wooden clasp arm Brake Wheel has had to be fitted with packing pieces to enable it to fit the current windshaft, which being of iron is a smaller diameter than a wooden one would be. The Wallower is of cast iron, carried on a wooden upright shaft. This carries the Great Spur Wheel, which is of iron with wooden cogs and drove the two pairs of millstones underdrift. A third pair was added when steam power was installed. Only one pair of millstones remains today.[2]
Millers
- John Whitehead 1843–1851
- Frederick Edwards 1870–1899
- Noah Edwards 1896–1918[2]
References
- ^ a b c Historic England. "ARKLEY WINDMILL, BARNET ROAD, BARNET, BARNET, GREATER LONDON (1359022)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
- ^ a b c d e Moore, Cyril (1999). Hertfordshire Windmills & Windmillers. Sawbridgeworth: Windsup Publishing. pp. 42–44. ISBN 0-9533861-0-4.
- ^ "Arkley and Barnet Gate". Barnet Online. Archived from the original on 24 January 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
External links
- Windmill World webpage on Barnet Gate mill
- v
- t
- e
- Arkley
- Barnet Gate
- Brent Cross
- Brunswick Park
- Burnt Oak
- Childs Hill
- Chipping Barnet
- Church End, Finchley
- Colney Hatch
- East Barnet
- East Finchley
- Edgware
- Finchley
- Friern Barnet
- Golders Green
- Grahame Park
- The Hale
- Hampstead Garden Suburb
- Hendon
- The Hyde
- Mill Hill (including Mill Hill East)
- Monken Hadley
- New Barnet
- North Finchley
- Oakleigh Park
- Osidge
- Temple Fortune
- Totteridge
- West Hendon
- Whetstone
- Woodside Park
Partly in the London Borough | |
---|---|
Abolished in 1965 |
- Arrandene Open Space
- Barnet Gate Wood
- Basing Hill Park
- Bethune Park
- Bittacy Hill Park
- Brent Park
- Brent Reservoir
- Cherry Tree Wood
- Childs Hill Park
- Clitterhouse Recreation Ground
- Coppetts Wood
- Darland's Lake Nature Reserve
- Dollis Valley Greenwalk
- Edgwarebury Park
- Friary Park
- Golders Hill Park
- Greenhill Gardens
- Hendon Park
- King George's Fields
- Long Lane Pasture
- Lyttelton Playing Fields
- The Mill Field
- Mill Hill Park
- Moat Mount Open Space
- Princes Park
- Monken Hadley Common
- Oak Hill Park
- Oak Hill Wood
- Old Court House Recreation Ground
- Princes Park
- Rowley Green Common
- Scratchwood
- Stoneyfields Park
- Sunny Hill Park
- Swan Lane Open Space
- Totteridge Fields
- Tudor Sports Ground
- Victoria Park
- Victoria Recreation Ground
- Watling Park
- West Hendon Playing Fields
- Whalebones Park
- Whitings Hill Open Space
- Chipping Barnet
- Hendon
- Finchley and Golders Green
- Category
- Commons