Windmill Mound 400m W of Church

Description of this historic site

The site of a post mill, a windmill mounted on a post. It was built during the Imperial period. The post mill is known to have existed from documentary evidence and the mill mound survives as an earthwork. The site is located on Mill Lane, 500m west of Burton Hastings.

Notes about this historic site

1 Mr Morris, whose family have been millers at Burton Mill since 1848, said that his father used to refer to the site as a windmill mound. The mound is flat-topped and roughly circular, though part of it has been cut away on the SW. It is 1.8m high, and on the E there is a ‘tail’, which may have served as an access ramp. On top are four indentations forming a square. The mound bears little resemblance to a barrow.
2 Built by 1787. Post mill.
3 Windmill marked.

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