This is all that remains of a smock mill constructed in the 1830s by the London and South Western Railway Company to pump water from the cutting into a nearby lake known as the Black Sea. William Wilson, the founder of Prices Patent Candle Company, created a garden around the lake as part of his estate. The windmill stopped working in 1870 when the lake was filled in. [Source: sign on the windmill marking the 20th anniversary of the Wandsworth Society, 1991].
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