Site of Windmill to N of Windmill House, Stockton
Description of this historic site
The site of a post mill, a type of windmill mounted on a post. It was in use in the Imperial period, and was pulled down in the 1920s together with the adjacent tower mill. It stood 500m north west of the church at Stockton.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Post mill. Built 1810. Brick and slated roundhouse, two pairs of stones, four common sails, ladder and tailpole with lever. Ceased work 1879. Pulled down with tower mill c1923. Millstones now in garden of mill house.
2 A windmill is mentioned at various dates from 1356 onwards.
3 There are no remains of the mill.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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