Aythorpe Roding Windmill
[3] The mill had been fitted with a fantail by 1868, and a steam engine by 1890, driving an extra pair of millstones in the roundhouse.[2] The mill was leased by Essex County Council in 1940[4] Restoration by millwright Vincent Pargeter was completed in 1982.The upper crosstree is made of two pieces of timber, scarf jointed in the vertical plane, and with an iron plate bolted under the join.The mill was originally built with the millstones arranged head and tail, and was converted to a breast stone layout at the time the cast-iron windshaft and patent sails were fitted.[3] Reference for above:-[2] Aythorpe Roding Windmill appeared in an episode of The Protectors titled Triple Cross which was filmed in 1972.