Site of windmill, west of Belchamp Otten (EHER 7007)

A windmill is marked on the first edition 6-inch Ordnance Survey map but by the second edition of this map, the windmill appears to have gone. It seems that the mill house to the north of the windmill may have become a beer house, as it is labelled 'Windmill B.H.'.

This location is marked 'Windmill (Corn)' on the Ordnance Survey first edition 6-inch to the mile map, surveyed in 1876 and published in 1880. <1> <2> By the time of the second edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map <3>, revised in 1896 and published in 1898, the windmill itself appears to have gone. The group of buildings including the mill house to the north are instead labelled 'Windmill (B.H.)' indicating that the house associated with the mill has by this time become a beerhouse. This is still the case on the third edition of the same map, revised in 1919-20 and published in 1924 <4>.