What is Oldland Mill?
'''Oldland Mill''' is an 18th century [[windmill]]. It can be found in the village of Keymer, near [[Hassocks]], [[West Sussex]]. ==History== Oldland Mill was built somewhere around 1700, the earliest record of a windmill in the area dates from 1703. The mill was originally an open trestle mill, the roundhouse being added at a later date.<ref name=Mill>{{cite web|url=http://www.oldlandwindmill.co.uk/history.htm|publisher=Oldland Mill Trust|title=The history of Oldland Windmill|accessdate=2008-05-06|archive-date=2008-07-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719041136/http://www.oldlandwindmill.co.uk/history.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Records show a mill stood in Keymer in 1755 and the mill was marked on a map dated 1783, but not shown on one dated 1795. The 1801 National Defence Schedule records the mill but the 1813 [[Ordnance Survey]] and Greenwood's 1829 map omit the mill. Records show that the mill was standing in 1828. Oldland Mill was working by wind until 1912. The mill began to fall into disrepair in the early part of the 20th century and continued to deteriorate. The Sussex Archaeological Society acquired the mill in 1927 and repairs were carried out by E Hole and Sons of [[Burgess Hill]] in 1934.<ref name=Book>{{cite book | first = Martin| last = Brunnarius| year = 1979| title = The Windmills of Sussex| pages = 48–50, 189| publisher = Philimore| location = Chichester| isbn = 0-85033-345-8}}</ref> In 1976, at the Annual General Meeting of the Hassocks Amenity Association, there was a talk was given on the work of Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. The question of how to preserve Oldland Mill was raised. The mill was then in the ownership of the Sussex Archaeological Society. The mill was looked at in 1977 by millwrights Vincent Pargeter and Edwin Hole and found to be close to collapse. Following negotiations with the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1979 the Hassocks Amenity Association leased the mill in 1980 and began a period of volunteer led restoration. ==Restoration== [[Image:Oldlan