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Stock Windmill Tours
Heritage Open Day: A chance to have a look inside Stock Windmill Stock Windmill is a Grade II*-listed tower mill, built around 1804. Popular and complete with several floors of machinery, at open days mill guides explain how grain was converted into flour.
The mill has four patent sails, a boat-shaped cap, a six-bladed fantail and three pairs of overdrift (operated from above) millstones. It is in working order and is worked occasionally, turning 360 degrees to catch changing winds. You can visit all five floors, and there is room for picnics on the mill’s grounds. Built in the heyday of wheat farming and high corn prices, there were once three mills on this site, run by the village baker.
A steam engine was added to the mill in 1902.
Sun 8 Sep:2pm - 5pm; Free Entry.
Stcock Windmill, Mill Lane, Stock, Essex CM4 9NE
Sun 8 September