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Hi Dose anyone know anything about the Dandridge Mill in West Hanney . I know it was build about 1820 as a silk mill, but do not know who build it. Thank you Sandy

Dandridges Mill

Dandridge Mill

The mill was built in 1820 as a water-driven silk mill, the silk originally milled by Napoleonic prisoners. In 1839 when the silk trade collapsed it became a grain mill.

In 1881 the owner was 61 year old Dennis Dandridge. Dennis had come to the village some 30 years earlier from East Hendred. By 1887 Dennis had retired and his sons Alfred and Edgar were running the mill to be joined later by the younger brother also called Dennis.

Dandridges Mill continued operating until the Second World War when it was converted into a small engineering works and used for building parts of the Mosquito Bomber aircraft.

Later still it was used as a sculptor's studio. The Mill was converted in 2009 into luxury appartments, the mill's original water race has been harnessed for sustainable power.

Dandridge's Mill in East Hanney is a green success



Dandridge's Mill in East Hanney
The 19th century mill is now 91% carbon neutral


An Oxfordshire mill restoration has won a national award for best technical innovation.

Dandridge's Mill in East Hanney is a grade II listed building dating back to the 1820s.

The developers claim it is the first private Archimedean Hydro Screw water wheel in the country which converts water power into electricity.

It also has a water source heat pump to harness heat from the bed of the neighbouring Letcombe Brook.

Judges from the Local Authority Building Control awards gave the mill the top prize over entries including the retractable roof for the Centre Court at Wimbledon and the International Pier at Birmingham International Airport.



The Archimedean Hydro Screw water wheel
The Archimedean Hydro Screw water wheel is used to create electricity


The restoration by Hallidays Developments Ltd means the Mill is now 91% carbon neutral which they say makes it the first Listed building in the country to achieve such a rating.

It generates around 27,000kWh of its own green electricity a year.

Teula Reily-Collins, of Hallidays Developments Ltd, said: "The results show that old can be combined with new to bring this historic building back to the forefront of technology.

"Installing renewable technologies within existing buildings, as well as new builds, is the only way forward if Governmental targets are to be met by 2020."



BBC - Dandridge's Mill in East Hanney is a green success


news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9204000/...

An Oxfordshire mill restoration has won a national award for best technical innovation. Dandridge's Mill in East Hanney is a grade II listed building dating back to ...

picture of the mill on this site

BBC - Domesday Reloaded: EAST AND WEST HANNEY


www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-440000-192000/page/1

... East and West Hanney,are both rural villages surrounded by farmland. ... Dandridge Mill and the brook. ... Mills . Map of the area ...

are you connected to the Dandridge family? if so, use this site - there is at least one Dandridge marriage on there

Full text of "Berkshire parish registers. Marriages"


www.archive.org/stream/berkshireparishr02phil/berkshireparishr02...

Full text of "Berkshire parish registers. Marriages"



I've been through it as my Breakspears are from the Hanneys and Woolhope

HI Ann

Thank you for the above. My aunt was a dandridge befor she got married her family came from south moreton. Thank you sandy :-)

Dandridge's Mill

In "The Old Radleian 2009" pages 12 to 17 there is an article about the restoration of the Mill. Information on Joseph Dandridge is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dandridge