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Rock Mill (TQ 128 137 52°20′31″N 1°31′30″E / 52.342°N 1.525°E / 52.342; 1.525) is a Grade II listed smock mill at Washington, West Sussex, England which has been converted to residential use.

History

Rock Mill was built in 1823. The mill was working until the start of World War I and converted to a house c1919, the machinery being used as decoration in the converted mill. The composer John Ireland bought the mill in 1953. He died at the mill in 1962 The mill is currently used as offices.

Description

Rock Mill is a three storey smock mill on a single storey base, formerly carrying a beehive cap winded by a fantail. It had four Patent sails and drove three pairs of millstones (two pairs French Burr and one pair of Peak stones).

Millers

• Thomas Harwood - 1837
• Henry Harwood 1837 - 1840
• E Mitchell 1845 - 1855
• S A Coote 1890

Reference for above:-

External links

• Windmill World webpage on Rock Mill.

References

New list

A list of windmills in Norfolk. This list covers those windmills that had a primary function other than drainage. Those mills are covered by the List of drainage mills in Norfolk.

Locations

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Maps

• 1675 Ogilvy
• 1775 Bowles
• 1783 Hodskinson (Suffolk)
• 1797 Faden
• 1824 Ordnance Survey
• 1826 Bryant
• 1834 Greenwood
• 1838 Ordnance Survey

Notes

Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.

References

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{{Windmills in England}} Category:Windmills in Norfolk Category:Agricultural buildings Category:Grinding mills Norfolk

New Ship article

History
United Kingdom
Name	Empire Admiral
Owner	list error: <br /> list (help) Ministry of War Transport (1945-47) Dalhousie Steam and Motorship Co (1947-51) W Thompson & Co (1951-53) E G Thompson Ltd (1953-63)
Operator	list error: <br /> list (help) Alfred Holt & Co (1945) Glen Line (1945-47) Kaye & Co (1947) Dalhousie Steam and Motorship Co (1947-51) Ben Line Steamers (1951-63)
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, Barrow in Furness
Yard number	859
Launched	26 March 1945
Completed	August 1945
Renamed	list error: <br /> list (help) Peter Dal (1947) Benledi (1951)
Homeport	Barrow in Furness
Identification	list error: <br /> list (help) Official number 169038 Code letters GFJQ
Fate	Sold in 1963, renamed and reflagged
History
Bahamas
Name	Andros Tommeno
Owner	Andros Navigation Co
Operator	Andros Navigation Co
Acquired	1963
Fate	Sold and reflagged, 1963
History
Liberia
Name	Andros Tommeno
Owner	list error: <br /> list (help) Frank Shipping Co (1963-66) Unique Maritime Corporation (1966-69)
Operator	list error: <br /> list (help) Frank Shipping Co (1963-66) Unique Maritime Corporation (1966-69)
Acquired	1963
Out of service	1969
Renamed	Unique Carrier (1966)
Fate	Scrapped in Taiwan, 1969
Status	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tons burthen	7842 GRT
Length	451 feet (137.46 m)
Beam	66 feet 7 inches (20.29 m)
Draught	31 feet (9.45 m)
Propulsion	2 x steam turbines driving a single screw through double reduction gearing.
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)

SS Empire Admiral was a 7842 ton steamship which was built in 1945 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), she was sold in 1947 becoming Peter Dakl, and sold again in 1951 and renamed Benledi. In 1953 she was sold to Bahamas and renamed Andros Tommeno, being resold later that year to Liberia and renamed Unique Carrier, serving until 1969 when she was scrapped in Taiwan.

History

Empire Admiral was built by Vickers-Armstongs Ltd, Barrow in Furness for the Ministry of War Transport and launched on 26 March 1945, being completed the following August. She was managed by H Hogarth & Sons initially, with management passing to A Weir & Co, London in 1946. In 1947, Empire Admiral was sold to A Weir & Co and renamed Peter Dal. In 1951. Peter Dal was sold to W Thompson & Co, Edinburgh who traded as Ben Line, and was renamed Benledi. In 1951, Benledi caught fire in the Mediterranean, and was assisted into Malta with the help of HMS Brigand and the salvage ship Sea Sailor. In 1953, Benledi was sold to E G Thomson Ltd, remaining within the Ben Line fleet.

In 1963, Benledi was sold to Andros Navigation Co., Nassau Bahamas and renamed Andros Tommeno, being resold later that year to Frank Shipping Co, Liberia. In 1966, Andros Tommeno was sold to Unique Maritime Corporation, Liberia and renamed Unique Carrier, serving until 1969 when she arrived for scrapping on 27 February 1969 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

References

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External links

• Lloyds register entry for SS Empire Admiral.
• Photo of SS Empire Admiral
• Photo of SS Benledi

Category:World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom Category:Merchant ships of the Bahamas

Hadlow

Hadlow is a village in the Medway valley of Tonbridge, Kent; it is in the Tonbridge and Malling district. The Domesday Book records it as Haslow. The Saxon name for the settlement was Haeselholte (in the Textus Roffensis) and in the Middle Ages it became Hadloe and then Hadlow.

Hadlow is bordered by the parishes of (clockwise from north) West Peckham, East Peckham, Capel, Tonbridge, Hildenborough and Shipbourne.

History

Evidence of settlement in the Hadlow area dates back to the Stone Age implements, which have been found near the village.

Domesday

The Domesday Book entry for the village reads:-

Richard de Tonebridge holds of the bishop (of Baieux) Haslow. It was taxed at six sulings. The arable land is twelve carucates. In demesne there are three, and forty-seven villeins, with fifteen borderers, having fifteen carucates. There is a church and ten servants, and two mills of eleven shillings, and twelve fisheries of seven shillings and six-pence, and twelve acres of meadow, Wood for the pannage of sixty hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, and now, it was and is worth thirty pounds. Eddeva held it of king Edward.

Middle Ages

The male line of the Clares died out in 1314, and that part of the estate including Tonbridge and Hadlow passed by marriage to the Staffords, who were Knights Hospitallers and Earls of Gloucester. In 1403, the manor of Hadlow passed to Humphrey Stafford. On his death in 1460, Hadlow passed to his wife, Anne, Duchess of Buckingham, and a survey of the Manor of Hadlow was carried out

The Manor of Hadlow was not the only manor in the village of Hadlow in 1460. The inheritance custom in Kent was that of Gavelkind and therefore the parish became sub-divided over the years. Other manors in Hadlow were Caustons, Crombury, John Fromonds, Thomas Fromonds and Peckhams.

In 1460, the parish of Hadlow was much bigger than it is today. It covered much of present-day north Tonbridge. The parish boundary with Tonbridge being at the junction of Hadlow Road and Yardley Park Road. Land north of Hadlow Road as far as Higham Lane being within Tonbridge, but land south was within Hadlow, including Hadlow Stair and Fish Hall. On the Shipbourne Road, the parish boundary was then at the bottom of Starvecrow Hill at the junction with the present day Whistler Road. Goose Green, which is within Hadlow today, was then in East Peckham.

Sixteenth century

The third Duke of Buckingham was executed in 1521, and the manor went through a series of ownership changes. Sir Henry Guildford being granted the manor by Henry VIII, and the manor passed back to the Crown on his death, it was then granted to the Duke of Northumberland, and again returned to the Crown. in 1558, Henry Carey, the first Baron Hunsdon, received it from Elizabeth I, later passing to his two sons, one of whom Sir George Carey, owned the manor in 1586 The manor house was called Court Lodge at this time.

Seventeenth century

Early in the 17th century, it was sold to James Faircloth, a London Physician. He sold it to George Rivers, second son of Sir George Rivers of Chafford. A new manor house, Hadlow Court Lodge was built c.1635. The Rivers family also owned Fish Hall, Tonbridge, which was in the possession of the Fane family during the time of Henry VIII but was later bought by the Rivers. In 1657 the manor was the property of Sir Thomas Rivers. but it was sold, along with Fish Hall, during the reign of Charles II to Jeffrey Amherst. He sold the manor and Fish Hall to John France in 1700.

Eighteenth century

John France had two daughters, Sarah (baptised 1700) and Elizabeth (baptised 1703). They shared the estate upon the death of their father, Elizabeth taking Fish Hall, and Sarah taking Hadlow manor. Sarah married Walter Barton. Their first son, John, was born deaf, blind and dumb. Their second son, Walter, inherited a large fortune from his uncle Richard May in 1763, on condition that he took the surname May. Walter May married Elizabeth Stanford of Strettit Place, East Peckham in 1775. He inherited Hadlow Court Lodge in 1786 and immediately set to work demolishing Hadlow Court Lodge and building Hadlow Castle.

Nineteenth century onwards

His son Walter Barton May added a 153 feet (47 m) high folly in 1835. The folly was damaged in the Great Storm of 1987 and, despite being Grade 1 Listed and previously being included in the World Monuments Fund's Top 100 Most Endangered Sites, it has yet to be repaired. The owner of the folly was issued with a Compulsory Purchase Order by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council in July 2006.

The main village street is brick-paved and there are several old houses and two Tudor inns. The River Bourne flows through the parish, and formerly powered a watermill in the village (Bourne mill) and two in Golden Green (Goldhill Mill and Pierce Mill). A set of Hopper huts from North Frith Farm has been dismantled and re-erected at the Museum of Kent Life, Sandling.

Church

The church is dedicated to St. Mary, and was first mentioned in 975, thus it celebrated its millenium in 1975. Hadlow was given to Eddeva in 1018, and parts of the church date to this time. The tower dates to the thirteenth century or earlier. The main door of the church has the date 1636 on it. This is often misread as 1036 due to most of the upper part of the first 6 being missing. The clock, by John Thwaites of Clerkenwell, dates from 1791. In the churchyard is a 19th century memorial to the drowning locally of 30 hop-pickers.

Breweries

Hadlow had working breweries between the early eighteenth century and the late 1940s. The earliest reference to a brewery in Hadlow is in 1710 when John Barton, Yeoman of Hadlow is mentioned in connection with a newly erected malthouse in Hadlow Street. In 1840 there was a complaint that the drain leading from the Close Brewery was a nuisance.

In 1851 the brewery was being run by Messrs Harrison & Taylor and in 1858 they sold the business to Edward Kenward of Marden and William Barnett of Willingdon, Sussex . Thomas Simmonds of East Peckham and Nelson Kenward were also parties, part purchasing and part leasing the brewery. in 1859 it was agreed that a new 15 quarter malthouse would be erected. This building being the one nearly parallel to the High Street. In 1868 Edward Kenward was bankrupt, owing £9,500. The partnership was dissolved in that year by mutual consent. Edward and Trayton Kenward then became partners, but this partnership was also dissolved and all properties assigned to Trayton Kenward.

In October 1871, Trayton and Charles Kenward entered into partnership with John Court. The business operating under the name of Kenward & Court. Sometime after this a second maltings was added, this running alongside Carpenters Lane. In 1881 the brewery supplied 68 public houses and was listed as 637th in the list of the first thousand limited companies. Kenward & Court was taken over by Charles Hammerton & Co. Ltd. in 1945. Beer was last brewed in September 1949. In 1952 Hammertons was bought out by Watney's, who then sold the brewery to Charringtons. Malting continued for several years and the brewery closed in the late 1960s, having been used as a distribution centre towards the end. The buildings gradually became derelict through the 1970s, and the Hadlow Society pressed for the buildings to be listed, which was done in July 1979. There was much debate within the village as to whether the buildings should be demolished or converted. The buildings were converted into flats in 1990. In 2005, Harvey's of Lewes brewed Hadlow Ale to commemorate Kenward & Court and celebrate the reopening of the Two Brewers pub (formerly the Fiddling Monkey and before that the Albion). The buildings are Grade II listed.

Another brewery stood at Style Place, Hadlow. This brewery was started in the 1830s by William Simmons, being in partnership with Henry Simmons in 1852 with William Martin joining them by 1855. The business was sold to Messrs Style & Winch of Chatham in 1863. The brewery buildings have been converted to housing and are now known as Caxton Place. The surviving building is Grade II listed.

College

Hadlow College of Agriculture and Horticulture was established in 1968. It is concerned with a wide range of land-based training including agriculture, horticulture, medicinal horticulture, landscape management, garden design, equine management, animal management and sciences, sports fisheries and countryside management.

Hadlow Cricket Club

Hadlow Cricket Club dates back to the mid-eighteenth century. Cricket is still played in Hadlow, the ground being located off Common Road, to the north of the village.

Notable people

• William Caxton is said to have been born in Hadlow.
• Bernard Hailstone, painter, lived in Hadlow and saved the tower of Hadlow Castle from demolition.

References

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Sources

• Bignell, Alan (1986). The Kent Village Book. Countryside Books. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)
• Thirsk, Joan (1985). Hadlow Castle, a Short History. Hadlow: Hadlow Historical Society. ISBN 0 9510425 0 5. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)
• Hughes, Anne (1991). The Close Brewery Hadlow. Hadlow: Hadlow Historical Society. ISBN 0 9510425 1 3. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)
• Thirsk, Joan (editor) (2007). Hadlow, Life, Land & People in a Wealden Parish 1460 ~ 1600. Kent Archaeological Society. ISBN 978 0 906746 70 7. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)

External links

• Further notes concerning Hadlow
  • note error: The Castle was built by Walter May, not his son, who only built the folly
• Hadlow College

v t e Towns and villages in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent, England
	Addington Aylesford Branbridges Beltring Birling Blue Bell Hill Borough Green Burham Ditton East Malling East Peckham Eccles Golden Green Hadlow Hildenborough Ightham Kings Hill Larkfield Leybourne Mereworth New Hythe Offham Platt (St. Mary's Platt) Plaxtol Ryarsh Shipbourne Snodland Stansted Tonbridge Trottiscliffe Walderslade Wateringbury West Malling West Peckham Wouldham Wrotham Wrotham Heath
List of places in Kent

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New Giant Hovercraft

History
United Kingdom
Name	New Giant Hovercraft
Builder	Atlas Hovercraft Inc.
Status	Concept design
General characteristics
Class and type	Hovercraft
Length	65 metres (213 ft 3 in)
Beam	35 metres (114 ft 10 in)
Draught	203 millimetres (8.0 in)
Capacity	2,000 passengers / 120 cars and 1,000 passengers / 12 HGVs

The New Giant Hovercraft (NGH) is a planned future hovercraft. The proposed builders are Atlas Hovercraft Inc., of Green Cove Springs, Florida.

Concept

The NGH is designed to carry either 2,000 passengers or 120 cars and 1,000 passengers in a two deck layout; or 12 HGVs in a single deck layout, thus giving a 500 tonne payload for the single deck version. The unit cost for eight to twelve hovercraft is estimated at US$40m-$50m each.

Proposed Builders

The proposed builders are Atlas Hovercraft Inc., who currently build the AH-100 and AH-26 hovercraft. Atlas have been involved in the NGH concept and are prepared to build it if a customer should place an order.

References

External links

Atlas Hovercraft

Category:Hovercraft

References

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13. This survey forms the basis for the book "Hadlow, Life, Land and People in a Wealden Village"
14. BBC
15. St. Mary's, Hadlow
16. The Close brewery
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20. "Investors raise Cross Channel hovercraft hopes". Direct Ferries. Retrieved 2008-03-14.
21. "Hovercraft Consulting Photos". Hovercraft Consulting. Retrieved 2008-03-14. - scroll down to bottom for artists impressions

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