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1609 White (Roothing) Roding Post mill was built.
1877 1 January The post mill was destroyed when the main post broke in a gale as the miller had too much cloth spread on the Common sails.
1877 A new tower mill was built by Whitmore's the Wickham Market, Suffolk millwrights[3] to replace the post mill.
1926 the mill was worked by engine.
1937 The lease on the mill expired that year and was not renewed.
1946 the mill was purchased by the actor Michael Redgrave, passing to a company in Barrow-in-Furness.
1950s, the mill was derelict and threatened with demolition on more than one occasion
1970s, millwrights Philip Barrett-Lennard and Vincent Pargeter built a new cap for the mill

The Millers that worked here:
George Wilson 1830–1839 (post mill)
William Portway 1845–1848
John Dixon 1850
Benjamin Roast 1855–1877
Benjamin Roast 1877–1890 (tower mill)
William and Frank Roast 1890–1917
William Garner and Sons 1917 - 1936