Wolston. Windmill

Wolston Windmill as photographed in 1895

Warwickshire County Record Office Re. PH1035 A6958

Almost nothing is known about Wolston Windmill built on Lammas Hill. It was a tower mill with batter, staging and four common sails.

A dig on Lammas Hill in 1950 uncovered the base of a windmill.

If anyone has any information regarding the windmill, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would be very pleased to hear from you.

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Ron Thorpe

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Probably not Wolston (no windmill is marked on 1880s OS maps) but Woolscott Mill at Grandborough, finally demolished about 1930.

By Gareth Hughes (06/11/2017)
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From all enquires I very much dobt if there was ever a Windmill in Wolston. That ‘mound’ on Lammas Hill is most probably a tumulus (similar to the one on Knightlow hill, but has been ‘excavated’ (robbed) in the centre. There is elsewhere a reference to a windmill ‘demolishing’ in 1953 – however that it the date of Marson Water mill demolition (the house is still there)

By William Waddilove (04/04/2022)