The Calehill estate map on 1639 shows a building within this field. It straddled a watercourse and so was probably a watermill. A mill pond was retained by a bank to its south (1). The bank is shown on later mapping and survives as an earthwork but the watercourse has shifted, first to the east and has then been redirected back to the west to run nearer to its 17th century course. The pond was fed by a stream flowing in from the north and appears to have been of some size, perhaps c.200m east-west and a similar size north-south. The centre of the pond is shown as green on the map of 1639 with water indicated around the edges. It may therefore have already begun silting up and so possibly indicates a medieval date for the original mill. The building is not shown on the sketch of the Ordnance Survey dated to 1789 but this could be an error as other buildings at Newlands are also not shown. It is not depicted on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey so had evidently been demolished by the mid 19th century.(1)

Subsequent assessment by Robert Spain, a mills specialist, in 2012 identified a large mill-dam that would have enclosed a mill pond, and perhaps an earlier mill.

Robert Spain, 2012, Mills at Newlands Manor, Charing: includes a report by Robert Spain (Unpublished document). SKE53515.

<1> 1639, Calehill estate in Little Chart, Charing, Pluckley, Pevington, Westwell, Hothfield and Betersden (Map). SKE16759.