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Windmill Inn, Leylands road, Burgess Hill

The Windmill was established in the mid 1850s and named after St. John’s windmill, a post mill off built in 1796 and dismantled in 1916. The brick roundhouse was demolished in the 1950s to make way for a housing development.

Burgess Hill pub history index

Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Beckley, Sussex .

Residents at this address

In 1911 at Windmill Inn Burges Hill, Keymer Urban
Frederick Beck, Publican aged 45 and born in Rodmell Sussex
Emma Beck, Wife aged 38 and born in Wincham Sussex
Winifred Beck, Daughter aged 7 and born in Shoreham Sussex
Violet Beck, Daughter aged 1 and born in Burgess Hill, Sussex
Rose White, General servant domestic aged 24 and born in Haywards Heath Sussex

1930, Windmill Inn, Frederick Beck, Leylands road, Burgess Hill .. Post Office Directory

1938, Windmill inn, Chas. Coates, Leylands road, Burgess Hill .. Post Office Directory





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