Editing Sheerness (section)

== Mills ==
[[File:Great Mill, Sheerness, Kent (18939986736).jpg|thumb|Great Mill]]
Sheerness has had four [[windmill]]s. They were the Little Mill, a [[smock mill]] that was standing before 1813 and burnt down on 7 February 1862; The Hundred Acre Mill, a small [[tower mill]] which was last worked in 1872 and demolished in 1878 leaving a base which remains today; The [[Great Mill, Sheerness|Great Mill]], a smock mill, the building of which was started in 1813 and completed in 1816, which was demolished in 1924 leaving the base,<ref name=Finch>{{cite book | first = William| last = Coles Finch| author-link=William Coles Finch| year = 1933| title = Watermills and Windmills| pages = 275–77| publisher = C W Daniel Company| location = London}}</ref> upon which a replica mill body was built to serve as flats. On 23 January 2008 a fire started in the mill tower.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7207555.stm| publisher = BBC News Online| title = Fire rips through town's windmill| access-date = 22 April 2008| date = 24 January 2008| archive-date = 28 January 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080128202104/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7207555.stm| url-status = live}}</ref> The fire was declared not to have been a case of [[arson]];<ref name=Kent>{{cite web| url=http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/arson_attack_on_sheerness_windmill_ruled_out_1_1036688| publisher=Kent News| title=Arson attack on Sheerness windmill ruled out| date=25 January 2008| access-date=22 April 2008| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029202735/http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/arson_attack_on_sheerness_windmill_ruled_out_1_1036688| archive-date=29 October 2014| df=dmy-all}}</ref> Little is known of the fourth windmill, said to have been a vertical axle windmill designed by Stephen Hooper.<ref name=WSL>{{cite book | first =  and Mason, M T| last = Farries, K G| year = 1966| title = The Windmills of Surrey and Inner London| pages = 51| publisher = Charles Skilton Ltd.| location = London}}</ref>