Site of Windmill 600m NE of Bull Ring Farm, Ufton

Site of Windmill 600 metres NE of Bull Ring Farm, Ufton

Image courtesy of Gary Stocker August 2020

Description of this historic site

Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of a windmill that was in use from the Medieval to the Imperial period. It stood to the north east of Flax Hill.

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Notes about this historic site

1 A windmill is recorded in 1291.
2 A will of 1719 mentions a parcel of ground containing by estimation about half an acre with a windmill.
3 The mill is marked on Yate’s map of 1787-9, but not on later maps. It stood in a large meadow still known as Mill Field. There are several slight undulations in the area, but nothing to indicate the actual spot.
4 ‘Mill Ground’.
5 The field is under cultivation without any indication of the site of the mill.