Windmill at Mill Hill Plantation, Edstone
Mill Hill plantation where the windmill used to be located.
Image courtesy of Gary Stocker.
Pond at the bottom of Mill Hill.
Image courtesy of Gary Stocker.
Description of this historic site
The remains of a windmill in use from the Post Medieval to the Imperial period. It is uncertain whether it was a post mill or a tower mill. Only part of the foundations and the millstones survive at the site, which lies 1km north east of Bearley Cross.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Brick tower mill. Windmill shown in 1725 may have been a post mill, but represented as tower mill late 1780s. In ruins for much of 19th century and remains taken down c1912. Two millstones remain on site within boundary fence of well-grown plantation 1976-7.
2 Both millstones remained. Part of the foundations could be seen in the undergrowth. Nothing else remains on the site.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
In the book, “Haunted Warwickshire” by Meg Elizabeth Atkins, there is a photograph which is said to be of the windmill in the 1930’s, shortly before demolition. It is derelict and is of a brick construction. It was taken by a relative of a Mrs Farmer, whose family had lived in the locality for generations.
According to Mrs Farmer there is meant to be buried treasure underneath the old millstone, but is kept in place by the ghost of an old miller. He only relinquishes his hold on it at midnight, on nights of the full moon, when he leads his six ghostly, black mares to a pond at the bottom of the hill for a drink.
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