Site of Medieval Windmill at Monks Kirby
Description of this historic site
Documentary sources suggest that there was a windmill at Monks Kirby belonging to the Priory. It was of the post mill type, and in use from the Medieval to the Post Medieval period. Its exact location is unknown.
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Notes about this historic site
Site of a Medieval windmill.
1 Post mill. Kirby Windmill (Priory of Monks Kirby). Built by 1291. Exact location not known.
2 In 1291 the Priory of Monks Kirby had a windmill at Kirby and there was still a windmill attached to the manor in 1721.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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