Copton Pumping Windmill
Encyclopedia
Copton Mill is a tower mill
in Copton, Faversham
, Kent
, England
that was built in 1863 to pump water for Faversham Water Company's waterworks. It is just south of junction 6 of the M2 motorway.
s Spray and Harmer in 1863. The mill was marked on the 1858-72 and 1903-10 Ordnance Survey
maps. It was worked by wind until 1930, when the cap and sails were removed and replaced with a 6000 gallons (27,276.5 l) water tank.
37 feet (11.28 m) long and 5 feet (1.52 m) wide carried on a cast iron
windshaft. The mill was winded by a fantail. It was rated at 15 hp and could pump 10000 gallons (45,460.9 l) of water per hour. An oil engine
was used as auxiliary power.
Tower mill
A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind....
in Copton, Faversham
Faversham
Faversham is a market town and civil parish in the Swale borough of Kent, England. The parish of Faversham grew up around an ancient sea port on Faversham Creek and was the birthplace of the explosives industry in England.-History:...
, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
that was built in 1863 to pump water for Faversham Water Company's waterworks. It is just south of junction 6 of the M2 motorway.
History
Copton Mill was built by the millwrightMillwright
A millwright is a craftsman or tradesman engaged with the construction and maintenance of machinery.Early millwrights were specialist carpenters who erected machines used in agriculture, food processing and processing lumber and paper...
s Spray and Harmer in 1863. The mill was marked on the 1858-72 and 1903-10 Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...
maps. It was worked by wind until 1930, when the cap and sails were removed and replaced with a 6000 gallons (27,276.5 l) water tank.
Description
Copton Mill is a three storey brick tower mill which formerly had a Kentish style cap. It had four patent sailsWindmill sail
Windmills are powered by their sails. Sails are found in different designs, from primitive common sails to the advanced patent sails.-Jib sails:...
37 feet (11.28 m) long and 5 feet (1.52 m) wide carried on a cast iron
Cast iron
Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...
windshaft. The mill was winded by a fantail. It was rated at 15 hp and could pump 10000 gallons (45,460.9 l) of water per hour. An oil engine
Oil engine
Oil engine may refer to:* Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine* Hot bulb engine* Hesselman engine...
was used as auxiliary power.
External links
- Windmill World page on the mill.