The mill worked by wind until c1885 and the sails and fantail were removed shortly afterwards.

The mill house was converted at some point,[clarification needed] with two new sails being fitted in 1914.

It had four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft.

[2] References for above:-[2] Hurt Wood Mill appears on the crest of a hill in the painting "Harvest Time" by George Vicat Cole (1833–1893), which is now in Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.

[3] It also appeared in an episode of The Tomorrow People titled The Doomsday Men.