What are the known facts about this miller who was born in 1709 and died in 1793? His mill was situated on the top of Highdown Hill, slightly south of the present trigonometrical point, and his cottage was somewhere on the northern slope of what was then called Caesar’s Hill. It was the miller’s daily custom to take a walk up the hill to his favourite vantage point to survey the scene and consider the imminence of his own demise; for which he had thoughtfully provided a tomb built in 1763, thirty years before his death.
