page_title: History of Margate
section_title: Windmills
hierarchical_section_title: History of Margate / Windmills
caption_attribution_description: photograph of Draper's mill, Margate
context_page_description: Margate was a "limb" of Dover in the ancient confederation of the Cinque ports. It was added to the confederation in the 15th century.
context_section_description: Margate has been served by several windmills over the centuries.
  Humber's (or Chamber's) Mill
  This mill was marked on Robert Morden's map of 1695, Harris's map of 1719 and Bowen's map of 1736. It was at Lydden, to the north east of Fleete village.
  Town Mill
  This mill was marked on Harris's map of 1719 and the 1858–72 OS map. It was known to be working in 1889.
  Hooper's Mill
  A horizontal windmill built by Stephen Hooper at the end of the eighteenth century. Its location was between Dane Hill and Margate Caves. The date of erection is not known, but it would seem to have been in existence by March 1791, when there was an advert in the Kentish Gazette in relation to the patent vanes used in the mill. The mill was demolished circa 1828. An illustration of the mill in Rees's Cyclopædia shows that the windmill had forty vertical sail blades mounted on the vertical Windshaft-cum-Upright Shaft. It drove three pairs of overdrift millstones. One pair was driven directly from the Great Spur Wheel, and another two pairs were driven by a further Spur Wheel on an Upright Shaft driven by the Great Spur Wheel.
  Nayland Mill
  This mill was marked on the 1801 OS map. It was moved to the position later occupied by Draper's Mill, thus would have been demolished in the 1840s.
  Draper's Mill
  Built in 1845 by John Holman, this smock mill was working by wind until 1916 and by engine until the late 1930s. It was saved from demolition and is now restored and open to the public.
  Little Draper's Mill
  This smock mill was moved from a site near Barham railway station in 1869. It was demolished in 1929,  leaving just the base which itself was demolished in 1954.
  Pumping Mill
  This brick tower mill was first marked on the 1858-72 Ordnance Survey (OS) map. It was built with five sails, but after being tailwinded in 1878 it was rebuilt with four sails. The mill was tailwinded again in August 1894. Repairs were estimated to cost £275 but were not carried out. The tower stood capless for a few years after and was demolished early in the twentieth century.
caption: Draper's Mill
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