Chegworth Mill, Ulcombe. Medway watermills (lower tributaries)

chegworth mill

tq 849 527 51°14′36″n 0°39′00″e / 51.243384°n 0.650098°e / 51.243384; 0.650098

chegworth mill not domesday mill recorded @ ulcombe. first reference chegworth occurs in 1200. first definite reference mill in 1317, when mill held john de cheggeworth. john de chageworth recorded @ mill in 1324. mill in ownership of sir cheney culpeper in 1657. known lower mill. previous owners thomas hatche , richard austen, had sold mill @ date. john pecke miller. seventeenth century millers in ulcombe include willia pettit (1612), percival austen (1669), thomas sylliborne (1673) , john baker (1682). not known mill each at, there being 2 watermills , windmill in ulcombe during period. william taylor miller in mid-nineteenth century. in 1702, john feverstone miller. mill known pendmill in 1745 when miller recorded john feverstour elder. john feverstone older miller in 1766, when lease renewed. richard tilbe being owner @ time. thomas willett leased mill in 1792 , in 1800 chegworth mill, otherwise pendmill mortgaged willett. mill recorded checqworth mill on 1801 ordnance survey map. john taylor miller in 1847, followed g craddock in 1852, j gilbert, william , thomas taylor in 1854, mrs m cradduck, j gilbert , thomas taylor 1855 - 1861, charles wicks in 1874, alfred wick 1895 - 1907, frederick james potter 1930 - 1934. last miller ted uren, started @ mill in 1961, , took on harold potter. mill house converted c.1990.

the present mill corn mill , worked until late 1960s. has overshot waterwheel of 10 feet 10 inches (3.30 m) diameter , 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m) wide, made weeks of maidstone. axle cast iron , 7 ⁄2 inches (190 mm) square. pit wheel cast iron 96 lignum vitae cogs. cast iron upright shaft carries cast iron wallower 38 teeth , cast iron great spur wheel 104 cogs. powered 3 pairs of millstones. 1 pair french burr stones (by hughes & son of dover , london) of 44 inches (1.12 m) diameter, 1 pair peak stones of 46 inches (1.17 m) diameter , third pair have peak runner stone on french burr bedstone, both 42 inches (1.07 m) diameter. crown wheel drove 2 layshafts, powered various machines including ureka winnower , oat crusher ganz & co., of budapest, hungary. saw bench outside mill driven belts & pulleys. sack hoist driven top of upright shaft.