Site of Possible Medieval Windmill on Windmill Hill
Description of this historic site
The site of a Medieval windmill that might have belonged to Coventry Priory. A post mill may have stood on the same site at a later date. The site is located on Windmill Hill, 1km south east of Princethorpe.
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Notes about this historic site
1 This could be the site of a windmill which belonged to Coventry Priory which is recorded as having been built by 1291. Also the site of a Medieval (or later) post mill.
2 Site disturbed by an oil pipeline, although traces of a possible windmill mound still exist.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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