A seven-story tower mill built in 1830 on the site of an earlier post mill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated postcard

Because of subsidence which caused a lean long after the mill ceased working, the tower was reduced in height in 1992.

Location of mill: TF 552 675.

The local Millwright, Oxley, built this mill in the late 1830s and it is still in working order. It is owned by Lincolnshire County Council.

Location of mill: TF 457 765

This elegant five-sailed windmill (TF 457766), Hoyle's Mill, was built by Sam Oxley, an Alford millwright, in 1837 with later gearing and ironwork supplied by Tuxford of Boston.

With supplementary diesel engine power it worked until 1955.

The mill, fully restored in 2000, is now owned by Lincolnshire County Council and is once more operated commercially.

It is open to the public.

Frank Robinson, 2010

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This mill on Station Road was built in 1790 and worked until 1932. It originally had four storeys and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The cap and sails on Wallace's Mill in Station Road were removed in the 1930s and the interior fittings in piecemeal fashion afterwards.

It was reduced in height to a two-storey stump in the late 1960s.

Location of mill: TF 444 755

A tower mill built on the roundhouse base of a former post mill in 1855.

It was worked by wind until c.1916 and then by oil engine until the 1930s.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

"Windmill tower. Early C19. Red brick, formerly tarred ... surviving internal fittings include three millstones in situ of first floor"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1242471 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 has an entry "Kew Edward, miller (wind)"

National Grid Reference SE883215.

Geoff Swain Collection 17 August 1993

The tower of Alkborough Mill, now part of a dwelling, is Grade II listed. It is shown here shortly before the conversion work.

Location of mill: SE 833 216

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

Alvingham watermill is close to the Louth Navigation about 3 miles north east of Louth (TF 367914).

The present structure dates from the eighteenth century with nineteenth-century alterations.

The breast shot waterwheel, 11 feet in diameter, is driven by water taken from the nearby river Lud.

In the 1970s, the mill was restored to full working order.

There has been a mill on this site since the 12th century.

Frank Robinson, 2011

The 6-sailed windmill was on the south side of Abbey Lane.

In 1943 the sails were removed shortly after the opening of Bardney airfield. It was thought that they might obstruct Lancaster bombers.

undated postcard

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This was originally a four-storey tower mill, driven by four sails and built in the early nineteenth century. It is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TA 066 097

This was a four-storey mill with four sails built in 1816.

It worked until the early days of the twentieth century.

Location of mill: TA 062 229

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 has an entry "King Thomas (Mrs.) miller (wind), Barrow haven".

Shown as "Disused" on the OS 25 inch map published 1908. 

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

This mill, built in 1869, originally had four floors and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Pearson's Mill continued working up to the 1920s and is now part of a nursery business.

Location of mill: TA 060 217.

This fine eight-storey, four-sailed mill was built in 1813 on Waterside Road.

Jon Sass Collection, c.1910

The sails on Hewson's Mill were removed during the First World War and it continued to work by engine power until the 1940s.

Much of the mill machinery survives. It is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: TA 027 226

This seven-storey mill stands close to the Market Place in Barton. It was built in about 1803 and as a combined corn and whiting mill.

This painting by William Ward of c.1810 is one of the few known images of the working mill.

Jon Sass Collection

For a considerable period this mill was used to produce Paris Whiting by grinding chalk as well as grinding corn.

Much of the corn milling machinery survives on the upper floors, now conserved as part of a restaurant/pub complex.

It is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: TA 032 217

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This post mill was reputedly built by the Worsdall family in the 18th century. It worked until circa 1900 and was demolished in 1914.

Postcard mailed from Bassingham in 1906

This is an early tower mill, probably built in the very early years of the nineteenth century.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The sails from Hudson's Mill were removed in 1915 but it carried on under engine power until the 1930s. It is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: TF 116 132

This mill is the sole survivor of a group of three windmills which once stood near Westgate Road in Belton.

The mill ran on two sails for a considerable period until 1934.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Westgate Mill was powered by an oil engine between 1934 and 1960.

It is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: SE 770 075

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1919 "Harrison Henry Christopher, miller (steam), High street. T N 5"

Now residential accomodation. 

DB 7 November 2020 

This six-floored mill on Walcot Road had six sails, although, as was commonly the case, it ran with four sails when sails were under maintenance or repair.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1928

The sails and fan on Field Mill were removed in 1938 following a lightning strike and the empty tower was reduced in height in the 1960s.

Location of mill: TF 143 551

South Mill was built in about 1806 on the site of an earlier post mill in Victoria Street.

It was raised by two storeys in 1830 after the top had been wrecked in a storm.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

This is the surviving stump of a seven-storey four-sailed mill built in about 1830 on Victoria Street.

Location of mill: TF 153 551

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

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Bilsby windmill was erected in 1855 near the centre of the village on the west side of the A1111.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1928

The odd shape of the tower of this windmill is the result of significant repair work following the loss of cap and sails in 1901.

Location of mill: TF 470 766

Hewitt's Mill at Blyton was built in 1825 and continued under wind power until 1910. It was a four-sailed mill with five floors.

Jon Sass Collection, postcard dated 1910

The Winn family business continued at Hewitt's Mill until the 1960s.

It is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: SK 852 948

"Tower mill, now house. Early C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359455 

The C20 glazed lantern at the top (mentioned in the listing and shown in an earlier image) has been removed.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1909 states "Kirkland Sarah Jane (Mrs ), miller, Blyton windmill" and in 1919 Hewitt Joseph, miller (oil)".

DB 28 January 2020 

Maud Foster Mill was built in 1819 by Hull millwrights Norman & Smithson for Reckitt Brothers (later of Reckitt's Blue fame).

1963 photograph

This seven-storeyed mill alongside the Maud Foster Drain was built in 1819.

Milling first by wind and then by engine stopped in the 1950s but was brought back to working order by the Waterfield family in the late 1980s.

Location of mill: TF 334 447

"Baldock's Mill (1800), once a corn-grinding water mill, together with the miller's house, has been converted by Bourne Civic Society to serve as the town's Heritage Centre.

It houses many interesting artefacts, most recently a water-wheel has been installed and a newly created replica of a Charles Frederick Worth dress is on display"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne,_Lincolnshire 

"Right Hand Section House attached to mill. Early to mid C19 ... Middle and left hand section probably late C18 and early C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1260253 

DB 12 September 2015

Looking towards the corn mill across Bourne Eau the source of its power.

Tower of Bourne Abbey Church visible in the background.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1909 states "In a field at the west end of the town is a spring called "Peter's Pool," or "Well Head," the water from which flows in a strong stream eastwards, driving three mills within half a mile from its source; from the Quay, in Eastgate, it is a navigable river by statute, and is called the Bourne Eau, joining the river Glen at Tongue End; from this stream the town is supposed to derive its name"

DB 18 July 2020

This rare mill was erected in eighteenth century in Deeping Fen as a pumping engine.

It was moved to Dyke in 1845 and converted to corn milling.

Jon Sass Collection, c.1900

Somerfield's smock mill at Dyke near Bourne ceased to operate in 1927 when a sail was lost.

Location of mill: TF 103 226

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This mill, with five floors and four sails, is the only survivor of a group of six in the town.

It was built in the 1830s by James Hart of Brigg.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1911

Bell's Mill was worked by wind until 1920 and later by steam engine. The driving wheel can still be seen on the side of the tower (see left in this photograph).

It is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: SE 996 065

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This five-storey mill was built in 1804 close to the western edge of Brigg.

The mill machinery was removed in 1982 and it has been refurbished as a restaurant. It is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: SE 986 072

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This 5-sailed tower mill (Dobson's Mill) was built in 1813 and regularly grinds corn today.

It contains much of the original machinery and, unusually, turns clockwise.

There are 3 pairs of wind-powered millstones and one pair engine-powered by a Blackstone (of Stamford) diesel engine.

Postcard from David Robinson Collection, undated

Hanson's Mill, a five-floored mill, was built in the mid-1850s on the site of a post mill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The sails were removed in 1938 and the machinery in 1964. The tower has been incorporated into a dwelling.

Location of mill: TF 498 651

This four-storey mill was built in 1871 and was powered by four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The mill at Butterwick ceased working in the 1920s and is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TF 385 456.

This four-storey mill stands near the junction of High Street and Whitegate Hill in Wright's haulage yard. (It is also known locally as Wright's Mill.)

Jon Sass Collection, 1890s photograph

Milling at Top Mill (aka Wright's Mill) lost its sails and fantail winding in 1897.

It continued to work with engine power until c.1930.

The tower is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TA 125 007

This post mill in Carlton le Moorland was abandoned around 1906 and collapsed in 1935.

undated postcard

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This was a four-sailed, three storey mill with typical ogee cap. Steam power replaced wind power around 1900.

Location of mill: TF 312 555

This mill was built in 1838 with five storeys and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The windmill at Chapel Hill was taken out of use around the time of the First World War.

Location of mill: TF 208 539

This four sailed mill in Mill Road was built in c.1820 for John Nicholson, Mayor of Grimsby. It had four single-sided patent sails and three pairs of stones.

A bake house was added by the Frankish family.

The mill was dismantled by Thompson's of Alford in the 1920s. The cap was re-fitted to the mill at Spittle Hill in Gainsborough.

(Information courtesy Jon Sass, Lincolnshire Mills Group)

undated postcard, c.1900

The 5-sailed windmill in Mill Place, off Cleethorpes Market Place, was built in 1803 for William Jackson.  It originally had with 4 sails.

Steam power only was used from 1905.  It was demolished in 1922.

(Information courtesy Jon Sass, Lincolnshire Mills Group)

undated postcard, late 19th century

Nothing now remains of Coningsby’s five-sailed tower mill built in 1826.

It was located in Silver Street and was last operated by William Watson.

Cotswold postcard from David Robinson Collection, undated

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This was a four-sailed mill with three floors, which last worked in the final decade of the nineteenth century.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1905

East Mill in Corringham stands alone in a field to the east of the village and is the home of barn owls.

Location of mill: SK 879 909

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This three-storey mill with four sails was no longer operating at the turn of the twentieth century.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

This mill is on the very southern edge of Croft parish and close to Wainfleet All Saints.

It originally had three-storeys and four-sails and was erected in 1814.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The mill was heightened by a further three storeys in 1859. It was wind-powered until 1949.

Location of mill: TF 501 596

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This small mill probably dates from the late eighteenth century, with adjoining cottages built in c.1860.

It originally had three floors and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Broadway Mill is located at TF 236 101

Marked as Dogdyke Mills (Corn) on the OS 25 inch map surveyed 1888. Next to the former Dogdyke Railway Station.

On the east bank of the River Witham so actually in the parish of Coningsby. 

DB 17 January 2022

This small mill - four floors and four sails - was built around 1800.

Jon Sass Collection, water colour sketch by Karl Wood 1932

Baxter's Mill ceased work in 1913 and the sails were removed.

It is located at TF 218 349.

"The shell of the last remaining smock mill in Lincolnshire"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1242132 

"The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides.

It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind.

This type of windmill got its name from its resemblance to smocks worn by farmers in an earlier period"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smock_mill 

Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 "Sommerfield George Henry Duke, miller (wind)".

The mill ceased working in 1926 when one of its sails broke off.

http://dykehistory.org.uk/the-windmill-in-dyke 

DB 20 August 2020

This fine seven-storied mill, together with house and bakehouse, was built in 1820.

Jon Sass Collection, undated postcard

The five sails on Barlow's Mill were removed in 1927 and milling continued under engine power until the 1950s.

Location of mill: TF 333 623

Also known as the White Mill, this tower mill was built in 1800.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1927

This windmill was operated by the Brooks family until it closed in 1953.

Location of mill: SE 780 046

This is one of three tower mills to the north of the town off the Belton Road.

It was erected in 1783, one of the earliest surviving tower mills in the county.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1908

Maw's Mill is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: SE 777 047

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This four-storeyed mill was built in the early nineteenth century and continued to work by wind power until 1944 (latterly with only two sails).

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

This small three-storeyed mill at the north-east end of the village.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Stamp's Mill was in use until the 1930s, though at that time with the aid of an oil engine.

It is a Grade II listed structure.

Location of mill: TF 068 849

"Tower mill. Early C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359447 

Kelly's Directory 1930 has a listing "Stamp George, miller (wind & oil)".

DB 2020

Freiston Mill stands to the east of the village centre at Freiston Shore in Barneyfield Road.

It was built in the 1820s with four double-sided patent sails, driving three pairs of stones.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

After it ceased to work by wind in 1924, the mill was driven by an engine until the 1940s.

Location of mill: TF 390 429

Hoyles' Mill was built as a three-storeyed, four-sailed mill in the early nineteenth century.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

This mill was run by Joseph Hoyles in c.1900.

It ceased to use wind power in 1929.

Location of mill: TF 481 567

Built c1730 with four common sails. It was on the landward side of the Main Road to the north of the Barley Mow in an area which until the end of the 19th century was called "The Floors" - indicating a site of medieval salt pans.

At the time of this photograph, Friskney also had two tower mills - Kitching's Mill at Fold Hill and Hoyle's Mill at the Low Road boundary with Wainfleet St Mary (the dumpy tower of Hoyle's mill is the only present-day survivor).

There is a mound about half a mile to the west of the church called "Mill Hill". Was this the site of a much earlier post mill? Edward Kealey, in his book Harvesting the Air, Windmill Pioneers of Twelfth-Century England cites a charter, dated no later than 1189, recording the gift of a Friskney windmill and saltpans by Gilbert of Benniworth to the nuns of North Ormsby.

Postcard: c1920 (photograph by Rex Wailes, author of The English Windmill)

This mill was built in c.1730 and stood at the junction of Sea Lane and the A52 (TF 481554).

The last miller, John Stephenson, who had started his career here as an apprentice in 1874, retired in 1934. Both the mill and Mr Stephenson feature in In Search of English Windmills (1931) by Thurston Hopkins and Stanley Freese.

The mill was severely damaged by storms and for a while survived with two sails.  It had to be dismantled in 1939.

Postcard: c1930

This is one of the mills built by Saunderson of Louth in the third quarter of nineteenth century.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1934

The sails on Fulstow Mill were finally removed in 1950 and for a while it was powered by an electric motor.

Location of mill: TF 330 965

Peter Kirk Collection, 2006

Located near the top of Spital Hill, off the Corringham Road, at National Grid Reference SK822905.

Marked as "Highfield Windmill (Corn)" on the OS 25 inch map published 1906.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 has an entry "Anderson Richard, wind miller, Summer hill" (Summer Hill is a turning off Spital Hill). 

Geoff Swain Collection 7 July 1994

An early five-sailed mill with six-storey tower on Spital Hill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Milling ceased here in 1927 and the sails were removed.

Location of mill: SK 822 904

Whittons former flour mill now converted into retirement housing with windows pierced in the formerly blank walls. 

The entry in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 reads "Whittons Limited, millers, 35 Bridge street. TA "Whittons ; " TN 27"

DB 10 March 2020

This tall mill with eight floors and six sails dates from 1836. It is sometimes known as Seadyke Mill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph by Rex Wailes

The windmill at Gedney Dyke worked by wind until 1942 and had its sails removed five years later.

It is Listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TF 416 262

This early nineteenth century tower mill stands in Mill Lane.

The small windows in staggered arrangement are typical of early mills.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Gedney Hill's seven-storey mill in Mill Lane worked by wind until the 1920s. Engine power was used for a further 20 years.

It is Listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TF 334 118

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This four-sailed mill was erected in 1824 and heightened in the 1840s.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Some of the machinery of Green's Mill has been retained inside the tower.

It is Listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TF 220 300

North's Mill was built in 1833, one of three mills in the village.

The miller and his daughter(?) are standing at the open door of the mill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The final pair of sails were removed from North's Mill in 1934 and it continued to operate for some time with an oil engine.

Location of mill: TA 093 208

This is an early nineteenth century mill in Mill Lane.

It was operated by members of the Borman family throughout its life.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1900-1910

The sails, cap and most of the machinery were removed from Borman's Mill just before the Second World War.

The tower has also been reduced in height.

Location of mill: TF 382 970

This mill was on the footpath that runs from the foot of Princess Drive to Manthorpe Road. Only the house now remains.

Unposted card by Jackson & Son of Grimsby

This mill originated in neighbouring Owmby in the mid-eighteenth century.

In 1845 or 1846 it was moved from Owmby to Grasby and in due course a brick round house was built.

It was dismantled in the 1920s.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

This is the brick round house of the post mill, a rare survival..

Milling continued here until just before the First World War.

Location of mill: TA 092 051

Now a feature in the Mill Farm show garden and contains a fernery inside.

http://www.millfarmgarden.co.uk/ 

DB 3 July 2011

The 8-storey Victoria Mills was built as a grain store in 1889 and is flanked by buildings of 1906, now converted to flats.

Corporation Bridge is an electrically operated lift bridge built in 1925.

The PS Lincoln Castle was a coal-fired paddle steamer which operated for many years as a Humber ferry between Hull and New Holland.

It was scrapped by its owner in 2010.

Frank Robinson, 2010

Stockwith Mill is on the River Lymn about one mile north-east of Hagworthingham village centre.

The mill, with its breastshot waterwheel, was built in 1828 on the site of an earlier mill.

Location of mill: TF 357 704

Ken Redmore, 2003

This tower mill dates from at least 1816, maybe earlier.

It operated with four pairs of stones from the mid-nineteenth century until it closed during the Second World War.

In 1950 the cap was replaced by a pitched roof and the remaining two sails were removed.

Postcard published by W K Morton, from David Robinson Collection, no date

A four-storey mill built in the early nineteenth century. It was worked by wind until the 1940s and it soon became derelict after that date.

Location of mill: TF 344 697

Known as Top Mill or Borrill's Mill, this small 4-sailed corn mill (one of two in the village) stood close to the lane leading south from the village centre towards the fen (TF 417 654).

The miller for much of the twentieth century was John Borrill, succeeded by Frank Parker.

Ken Redmore, 1957

One of five mills that once worked in Haxey, Burnham Mill was erected in 1811 and worked by wind until the 1920s.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Burnham Mill at Haxey was converted into a dwelling in 1987.

It is Listed Grade II.

Location of mill: SE 772 012

This small tower mill originally had four floors and four sails which drove three pairs of stones.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1900

Westwoodside Mill is located midway between Haxey and Westwoodside at SK 761 997

This four-storey mill was built for William Hewitt in 1876.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1952

Location of Hewitt's Mill: SK 873 887

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

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Mowbray's or Mowberry's Mill, of unknown date, is located on Sleaford Road.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Mowbray's Mill in Heckington worked by wind until 1931 and was later reduced in height.

Location of mill: TF 135 442

View of the mill from the south-west in 1932.

Peter Kirk Collection

This unique eight-sailed mill was built in 1830, originally with five sails. It is restored to full working order.

Location of mill: SK 145 435

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

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Some of the earliest motor lorries belonging to the watermill in Heighington.

The man second to the left is Bert Scott.

Marked on OS 25 inch map published 1906 as "Park Mill (Flour)". 

There is a listing in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 "Roe Frederick, miller (water & steam)"

Now converted to private accommodation.

DB 17 December 2018

Heighington Beck, west from the High Street to the three-storey watermill.

Mr Frank East lived in the semi-detached brick house on the left, built by his (stone mason) father on the site of his old thatched stone house in spring 1893.

The October Village Feast had been held on the old site as building work could not start in the winter because of the effect of frost on the mortar.

Back view of Heighington Mill over its pond.

The water runs under the building. It is now a private residence and the millstream can be viewed inside through a glass panel in the floor.

This was built as a mill with five floors and four sails in 1864.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Hudson's Mill worked by wind until the 1920s. Later an engine and then electrical power were used.

The tower is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TF 135 405

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This post mill was erected in Hemswell in 1850, having previously been in place at Upton and Blidworth in Nottinghamshire (hence the nickname).

The mill was in use until the c.1920 and was demolished in 1936.

Drawing by F W Chapman, 1923

This mill was built in 1810 and continued in use into the 1920s.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Oasby Mill is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: SK 995 388

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1905 has an entry "Weightman William Boaler, miller (wind & steam) & maltster".

Marked on the OS 25 inch map published 1905 as "Oasby Mills (Corn)" 

Located at National Grid Reference SK 996388. 

Geoff Swain Collection 9 May 1994

This unusual mill, built in 1802, was designed to work by wind and water power.

The tower is constructed of limestone with an additional story of brick added in 1837.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The water-powered machinery in the mill was take out in 1912 and the sails in 1913.

It is Listed Grade II*.

Location of mill: SE 982 028

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

Only a small remnant of this tower mill, also known as High Mill, survived at the time of the photograph.

It was raised twice; the sails removed in 1921.

Unusually, it was rendered with cement at some point.

Location of mill: TF 545 721

Sivil's Mill or High Mill at Hogsthorpe, which stood in Mill Lane, lost its cap and sails in a severe gale in January 1881.

It was repaired by Saunderson, millwrights of Louth, and also heightened by one storey, not an uncommon occurrence.

Postcard from David Robinson Collection, 1923

Whitworth Brothers flour mill. 

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1930 "Tindall Arth. West, miller, Barrington mills. T N 28"

"A W Tindall Ltd was bought by Garratt's in 1987, and the mill was later purchased by Whitworth Brothers in 2012"

https://new.millsarchive.org/mills/index/?which=2030 

See also

https://whitworthbros.ltd.uk/who-we-are/our-history/ 

Grade II listed Flour Mills Lodge in the foreground left of center.

DB 30 November 2024

"Lodge. 1825, C20. Red brick with ashlar dressings"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359241?section=official-list-entry 

Whitworth Bros. Ltd. flour mill immediately adjacent. 

DB 30 November 2024

A tower mill built in 1816 and raised by two further storeys 50 years later.

It was worked by wind until 1928 and then by an oil engine until 1944.

The mill was demolished in nthe 1960s.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

A mill built in 1827 on the site of a smock mill.

As part of refurbished in 1877 the tower was raised by one storey.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph by Rex Wailes, undated

Penny Hill Mill was worked by wind until the 1940s and was abandoned some ten years later.

It is a Grade II listed building.

Location of mill: TF 358 267

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

Holdingham Lock on the Slea Navigation looking upstream (south) from the timber bridge over the lock.

The lock gates have been replaced by a simple weir which enables the navigation to continue working as a drainage channel.

The lock walls on the navigation were constructed in brick with sandstone cappings.

Some water flowing down the navigation was diverted from the main channel just before the lock to provide water to run the mill. This to the right (west) of the lock and no longer carries water.

Mark Acton, 2008

Attached to the rear (south) of the main mill building is the miller's cottage dating from the mid-18th century.

The mill was extended in the 1850s and 60s (roofless structure in the foreground) to facilitate grain cleaning and flour dressing.

At the same time a steam engine was installed to provide additional power and to drive additional stones. The base of the engine shed is seen on the extreme right.

Mark Acton, 2008

Holdingham Mill is on the Slea Navigation, two miles north-east of Sleaford. It was built in the early nineteenth century by Samuel Cropper.

The mill ceased working in the mid-twentieth century.

The mill was built in two phases. The earliest half of the building, alongside the navigation and furthest from the camera, dates from the 1790s, shortly after the River Slea was made navigable.

A substantial extension, built in red brick with pantiles roof like the original building, was added in the mid-19th century.

The windows and loading door at first floor level are original features but new vehicular entrances with concrete lintels have been created in the ground floor.

Mark Acton, 2008

On the west side of the navigation, and about ten metres north of the mill, is this minute hexagonal building.

Built around 1860, it is thought to have served as an office or counting house for the mill.

Mark Acton, 2008

The steam-driven shaft runs horizontally across this image. The large 'fly wheel' to the left carried a belt to link the water and steam powered drive shafts. 

One of the bevel geared drives to a pair of stones can be seen behind the green Acrow Prop.

Mark Acton, 2008

A horizontal shaft powered by steam engine ran through the ground floor and through bevel gearing drove three pairs of stones on the first floor stone room.

Mark Acton, 2008

The wheel house, at the eastern end of the mill, is positioned over the mill race.

The low-breast-shot wheel is entirely constructed in timber. It is twelve feet in diameter and carries 36 buckets.

Mark Acton, 2008

One of five windmills in the town, milling began here on the Spilsby Road in 1843.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The five sails on Holmes's Mill were removed in 1916 and it continued to work by steam power until the 1940s.

Location of mill: TF 266 696

Mill machinery - including the iron cross for the five sails - which originated from Spital Hill Mill, Gainsborough,

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

Horncastle's water mill was on the Bain where it entered the northern side of the town.

postcard, c.1970

This mill was built in 1827 with five floors and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Green's Mill worked until the early twentieth century. It was reduced to a two-storey stump some time before 1932.

Location of mill: TF 191 683

Hill's Mill was a four-storey mill with four sails built c.1813.

Location of mill: TF 196 695

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Village sign depicting what appears to be Hill's Mill.

Two mills listed in Kelly's Directory 1919 "Green Joseph Robert, miller (wind')" and "Hill William, miller (wind), Horsington mill"

DB 5 June 2021

The three village signs were all renewed for the Millenium. They were designed, cast and given by Charles Harrison Hill (CHH) the Chairman of the Parish Council.

Jean Howard 

Huttoft's windmill has lost its cap and sails but survives as a Grade II listed structure as does the neighbouring warehouse. The cottages and buildings in front of the warehouse are also still standing.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck. 

This mill was built in 1844 with five storeys and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The mill was severly damaged in a gale in 1945 and afterwards, for several years, an engine was employed.

Location of mill: TF 514 767

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

A tower mill with six floors built in 1872 at a cost of £1000.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Lower Mill was converted for domestic use in the 1960s.

Location of mill: SK 942 836

Another view of the lower mill now a private house.

DB 14 June 2020

Top Mill was built close to the Cliff Road (B1398) to the east of the village.

It is thought to date from the late eighteenth century and worked until the early twentieth.

It was demolished in the 1950s.

Location of mill: SK 957 832

Painting by Karl Wood

Former water mill now a private house. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 records the name of the miller

"Wells Fredk. Wm. miller (water)"

and in 1885

"Dunham Charles, miller (water), coal merchant & farmer"

DB 26 January 2019

This five-storey mill was built in 1833 on the site of a post mill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The mill now has a replica ogee cap and has been converted into a dwelling.

The stump is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TF 289 402

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This fine restored mill has a date stone of 1876.

It was operated by wind until 1936 and then powered by an oil engine until 1973.

Restoration was completed in 1991.

Location of mill: SK 939 994

Peter Kirk Collection, 2000

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Langton Mill was built in 1861 by Charles Clark of Horncastle.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Sails were removed and the mill abandoned in 1936 after a storm.

Location of mill: TF 245 695

One of Lincolnshire's post mills, which was erected in the 1780s and demolished in 1951.

Painting by Karl Wood, 1931

One of a pair of mills, Lowfield Mill was built in 1840 with six floors and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph by D W Muggeridge, 1934

The machinery and equipment at Lowfield Mill was removed in the 1980s and twenty years later it was converted into a dwelling.

Location of mill: SK 921 532

Unusually among Lincolnshire mills, Legbourne Mill was designed to operate by wind or water power.

It was built by Saundersons of Louth in 1847 and it remained in use until 1962.

Postcard by Tilley of Ledbury from David Robinson Collection, undated

One of the rare mills that could operate under wind or water power. It was built in 1847 and the last miller retired in 1962.

Location of mill: TF 362 842

This small mill, built in 1798, has 4 sails and only 3 floors.

During the nineteenth century it was one of 8 mills along a short stretch of Burton Road to the north-west of the city.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1941

Ellis Mill was worked commercially until 1941.

It was restored by Lincoln Civic Trust in the 1970s and is regularly worked by volunteers.

Location of mill: SK 971 722

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

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The mill tower and the associated buildings which housed the roller mill have been converted for residential use.

Location of mill: SK 971 703

Peter Kirk Collection, 2001

The original mill here was built in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

It had five sails but was remodelled with six sails in 1863. In 1882 a roller mill was introduced on the site.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1910

When built in 1817 this mill had four sails but after remodelling later in the century it was fitted with six sails.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph by D W Muggeridge, 1935

Milling ceased here in the 1930s and the sails and cap were removed in 1973.

It is a Grade II Listed building.

Location of mill: TF 440 221

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This seven-floored mill with six sails was built in 1843.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1919

The sails were removed from the mill in 1925 and for a while it continued milling with an oil engine.

It is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: TF 438 229

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This mill, built in the mid-1850s, originally had five floors.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1930s

Milling ceased at this mill in 1929 after damage in a gale.

Location of mill: SE 828 174

Saundersons of Louth built this mill in 1869 to replace a post mill. It had five storeys and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1910

Ludford Magna's mill worked by wind until 1932.

Because it was near to an airfield, the sails, cap and upper section of the tower were removed in the early 1940s.

Location of mill: TF 200 895

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This distinctive tower mill is one of the country's earliest.

Built in 1779, it has an unusual octagonal brick tower.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph by Rex Wailes, c.1928

Some machinery of Sneath's Mill survives.

Attempts are being made to preserve it. It is Listed Grade I.

Location of mill: TF 436 243

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

John Saunderson, millwright of Louth, built this mill in 1841. It had three pairs of stones.

The cap was blown off in 1864 and again in 1881.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1935

The windmill at Maltby le Marsh worked by wind until 1952.

Location of mill: TF 470 820

Peter Kirk Collection, 1997

"Three storey, tapering tower mill. Constructed 1841 by Saunderson's of Louth ...

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147010

Listed in White's Directory of Linclonshire 1856 :-

"Whitworth Henry, corn miller" 

Also in Kelly's Directory 1919 :-

"Hoyles Joseph, miller (wind & steam)"

DB 29 June 2019 

A tower mill built in 1820 and raised by the "insertion" of two floors - making six in all - later in the century.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The mill had four sails, which were removed in 1910; the cap was taken off in 1939.

Location of mill: TF 281 610

"Early 19C. Brick bridge with stone dressings going under the Mill and the road in front"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165853 

"Early 19C. Corn grinding water mill"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359761 

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The parish has extensive brick and tile yards, three breweries, and several maltkilns and corn mills"

DB 8 April 2019

"2 storey late 19C extension to side with door and 5 stone steps"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359761 

DB 8 April 2019

This three-storey mill in Mill Lane was built in 1835 on the site of a post mill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

This mill had four sails and three stones.

Location of mill: TF 362 993

Built in the late eighteenth century standing close to the Trent to the west of the village.

photograph from Exley Collection, 1927

Port Mill was derelict by the 1920s. It is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: SK 834 816

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

Listed in White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 "Bottomley John, corn miller"

Local signage, part of the Marton Village Heritage Trail, states that :-

"Marton Windmill used to have 4 sails. It was taken apart in 1927 as it was no longer needed. A corn warehouse and malthouse used to stand beside the windmill. It used to have two pairs of stones: one French and one Grey.

The windmill has stood there since before 1799.

The brickwork was repaired in 1985" 

DB 24 June 2020 

This was once a fine mill with seven floors and six sails. It was built in 1867.

Lincolnshire Echo photograph, 1930s

Presumably the Miller's house in the foreground but in a state of some disrepair. 

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1872 has an entry " Burbank Henry, corn miller"

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994

The tower of the windmill at Metheringham is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TF 064 613

This mill was erected in 1820, originally with three floors and four sails.

The tower was raised in 1873.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The mill was worked by wind until the 1920s. For a further 30 years the mill machinery was powered by belt drive from a tractor.

Location of mill: TF 091 888

Peter Kirk Collection, 2000

A more recent view of the windmill at TF 090 887.

Two corn millers listed in White's Directory 1872 "Fowler James, corn miller" and "Penistan Richard, corn miller".

DB 19 April 2021

Location of mill: SK 810 921

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This mill was built on the site of a post mill in 1865.

The original tower had five floors and there were four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

This mill is Grade II Listed.

Location of mill: TF 294 183

This tall (nine-storey) mill was built in 1822 by Robert King and was most recently worked by the Biggadike family from 1924 to 1995. 

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1895

A provender milling business continued on the site until 1995.

Location of mill: TF 307 240

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

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At approximately 100 feet high to the cap and with nine floors, Moulton windmill is reputedly the tallest mill in the country.

The mill has now been completely restored to working order and is open to the public.

Ken Redmore 2010

This mill was said to date from the seventeenth century. It was demolished in 1920 though the mill house in Mill Lane still survives.

Postcard published by Skegness Postcard Library, from David Robinson Collection, 1905

This Grade II listed tower was built in the 1820s as a five-storey, four-sailed mill.

Location of mill: TF 307 585

Watkinson's Mill was built in the early 1820s with four storeys and four double-sided patent sails.

It is sometimes known as Carrington Mill.

This tower mill built in 1824 with four floors, later heightened to five.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Ladd's Mill had four sails and worked by wind for almost exactly 100 years.

Location of mill: SK 940 656

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This four-floored brick tower mill, built in the early nineteenth century, stands on Carr Lane.

The mill operated by both wind and steam power until the end of the century and was abandoned in 1905.

Location of mill: TA 036 013

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This short, three-storied mill standing on Kirkby Hill had a lime-washed tower.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The mill at Old Bolingbroke worked by wind until 1950 and was dismantled in 1953.

Location of mill: TF 339 642

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This tower mill, which stands near Chapel Road, was built in 1859.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The cap and sails on Howsham's Mill were removed in 1950 and the tower was slightly reduced in height.

Location of mill: TF 398 522

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This is one of three mills which once stood on the bank of the Trent to the east of the village centre.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Lilley's Mill was disused by 1923 and was later reduced to three storeys but then raised an extra storey for conversion into a house.

Location of mill: SK 815 993

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

Pickworth Mill, like many tower mills, was built in the early nineteenth century.

It was taken out of use in the early years of the twentieth century.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The windmill at Pickworth originally had three floors and was driven by four sails.

Location of mill: TF 042 342

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This mill with its bakehouse has stood by the river Glen near Small Drove Lane since 1812.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph by Rex Wailes, c.1928

Glenside Mill continued in use with modern milling machinery until the 1970s.

Location of mill: TF 206 252

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This five-floored mill was built in 1848 on the site of a former post mill.

undated photograph

The cap and internal machinery were removed from Northgate Mill in the 1930s.

Location of mill: TF 227 260

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This tower mill standing on the old sea bank in Mill Lane was built in 1770.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1900s

Saltfleet Mill was last operated in the 1950s and was then converted into a dwelling.

Location of mill: TF 456 936

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

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This 4-sailed mill with five floors was built in 1823 and operated by wind power until 1927.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

For a few years from the late 1920s the mill was powered by oil engine.

Location of mill:  SK 892 748

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

The original mill at Scawby was built in 1829 and became derelict in the early years of the twentieth century.

This view of the mill is from Gainsborough Lane.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1890s

A picture of the mill at National Grid Reference SE972053 prior to restoration.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 has an entry "Chambers John, miller (wind)".

Windmill marked as "Disused" on the OS Six inch map published 1907" 

Geoff Swain Collection 6 September 1993 

The current mill standing in Mill Lane is a 1993 reconstruction of a tower mill that collapsed when being converted into a dwelling.

Location of mill: SE 972 058

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This four-sailed mill, with five floors was built in 1827 on Scopwick Heath.

It was worked until shortly before the First World War.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1912

The tower is listed Grade II. It is shown here shortly before conversion into a dwelling.

Location of mill: TF 058 576

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

The final twenty-first century conversion of the mill into residential accommodation.

Jon Sass Collection, July 2015

This mill was built on the site of a former post mill by Charles Hett of Brigg in 1874.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Cottingham's Mill worked until the late 1930s and 50 years later it was incorporated into a dwelling.

It is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: SE 883 005

The Grebby Mill was built in 1812. Unusually in Lincolnshire the brickwork was protected with whitewash rather than tar.

Milling was carried on until c.1950.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The cap and most of the machinery were removed from the mill in 1963 and it was later converted into domestic accommodation.

Location of mill: TF 438 684

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

The original four storeys of the cornmill have been topped with a circle of windows and a glazed conical roof, affording extensive views on all sides.

All trace of the whitewash on the tower has disappeared.

The mills archive has an estimate for repairs by Thompson & sons in1959, a newspaper cutting relating to an unsuccessful 1971 application for a grant to Spilsby Rural District Council and a number of illustrations; see:

https://catalogue.millsarchive.org/lincolnshire-8

Jean Howard 29 April 2023

This tower mill, close to the steelworks to the east of Scunthorpe, was built in 1858.

The mill had four floors and four double-sided sails.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph early 1900s

Long's Mill ceased to operate in the 1930s and the machinery was removed.

The tower was restored and capped in the 1980s. It is Listed Grade II.

Location of mill: SE 902 113

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

"Windmill-tower, now offices, Mid C19, restored 1982.

Coursed ironstone rubble base, tarred brick tower, wooden cap and fittings.

4-storey tower has single pane windows in original segmental arched openings, 1982 cogged brick cornice and wooden onion-shaped cap, with ball finial. and cross-tree"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083613

DB 19 February 2019

This early nineteenth-century mill stands in the north end of the village close to the A16.

As with many other mills, the tower was heightened later in the century, in the instance by one storey.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph by Rex Wailes c.1928

Sails and fan were removed from the Rhoades' Mill in 1924 and it ceased to work thereafter.

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This mill, in the care of English Heritage, was one of the last mills to be built in the county (1877, by Saunderson of Louth).

Jon Sass Collection, photograph by D W Muggeridge, 1935

Local English Heritage signage states :-

"Sibsey Trader Windmill is a significant and rare example of a six sail-windmill.

It was constructed by local millwrights Saundersons in 1877, and today it's an attractive local landmark. 

But storms in January 2018 caused significant damage, and we took the decision to remove the sails and fantail for conservation.

We will reinstall them as part of a project to restore the windmill"

DB 3 August 2019

View from the Dust Floor up into the Cap.

DB 3 August 2019

DB 3 August 2019

The sack hoist is a continuous chain to which sacks of grain etc can be attached.

It goes up through the mill to the top, passes over a drive wheel, and then comes all the way down again.

Each floor has a pair of trap doors through which it passes. 

DB 3 August 2019

View of the Stone Floor which contains the grinding equipment.

Above the Base & Meal Floors and below the Bin & Cap Floors.

DB 3 August 2019

Sibsey Trader Windmill was built in 1877 by Saundersons of Louth and stands 74' 3" from base to the top of the cap. It is one of the few 6 sail mills left in England.

It was earmarked by the Ministry of Works in the 1960s as one of 12 windmills of national importance and was renovated in the 1970s.

It is open to visitors at weekends throughout the year and on Tuesdays from May to September.

Mark Acton, 2017

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Cogglesford Watermill, on the Slea Navigation is alongside the top lock of the Sleaford Navigation half a mile from Sleaford town centre (TF 074461).

It was probably built in 1771, with a top floor added in the 1830s.

It is open daily from Easter to the end of September and at weekends in the winter.

Mark Acton, 2008

Cogglesford Mill, Sleaford was recently restored to working condition and its breast-shot wheel drives the stones and other machinery from time to time to produce flour.

This photograph shows the ground floor, an open exhibition area with milling tools and equipment.

A series of display boards describe the history of the mill and its millers.

Mark Acton, 2008

"Cogglesford Mill (sometimes referred to as Coggesford) is a Grade II listed working watermill in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.

It is possibly the last working Sheriff's Mill in England.

The mill sits to the north of Sleaford on banks of River Slea.

There is archaeological evidence of a Saxon mill on the site and records in the Domesday book of later mills; the present redbrick structure dates to the late 18th century, with alterations from the 19th Century"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogglesford_Mill 

DB 5 June 2015

Low breast shot internal wooden waterwheel.

DB 5 June 2015

Great spur wheel and two sets of millstones.

DB 5 June 2015

View under the great spur wheel.

DB 5 June 2015

This mill has stood in Craven's Yard close to Southgate since the late eighteenth century.

It had an associated granary and bakehouse and continued in operation until c.1900.

Jon Sass Collection, illustration c.1798

The ogee cap on Money's Mill is a replica of the timber original.

Location of mill: TF 069 456

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

Former "Early-mid Cl9. Tower mill"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360432 

Money's Mill is located in Money's Yard, now a car park, in central Sleaford. Trading as a Cafe/Bistro.

DB 27 August 2019

This six-storey mill was built in 1841.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The windmill at South Rauceby closed in 1937 when the miller, Herbert Sleight, retired.

The structure has a Grade II listing.

Location of mill: TF 024 457

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

Birch's Mill was a powerful six-sailer built in 1819. It was demolished in 1909.

Postcard from David Robinson Collection, 1906

Lock's Mill on St Catherine's Island, Spalding.

This smock mill, one of very few built in Lincolnshire, was demolished in 1899.


Undated photograph

This six-storeyed mill on a site south of the village centre was built in 1875.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph by D W Muggeridge, 1934

In 1957 this mill was caught out by a tailwind which wrecked the top.

Location of mill: TA 191 106

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

Barr Green Mill or Shaw's Mill is a small tower mill (three floors) which was built in 1820 and stands close to the A16.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Milling ceased here in the 1950s. The tower is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: TF 346 589

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This mill was built in 1845 for William Balderston.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Milling by wind ended at Donner's Mill in 1952 but continued for a while under engine power.

Location of mill: TF 345 569

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This four-storey tower mill on Mill Lane, built in 1815, worked with four sails. It was wind powered with supplementary oil engine until 1954.

It was a subscription mill, i.e. it was owned by local shareholders, 40 in this instance.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The Union Mill at Sturton is a Grade II listed structure.

Location of mill: SK 881 804

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

This mill, at the junction of Mill Lane and Wigtoft Road, was built in 1855 with five floors and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1899

William Tuxford of Boston provided some of the original machinery for Sutterton Mill.

Location of mill: TF 273 359

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This mill was built in 1828 on Mill Lane. Like many other milling businesses there was a bakehouse alongside.

Location of mill: TF 389 181

Jon Sass Collection, undated postcard

Ives Corss Mill worked by engine until the c.1906 and the tower was demolished in the early 1990s.

A very small fragment of the mill tower has been retained in the centre of Sutton St James.

Location of mill: TF 389 181

The tower of this three-floor mill has stood on Mill Lane since 1821.

There were once at least three other tower mills in the village.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

North End Mill worked by wind until 1932 when it was "tail winded" and had to be abandoned.

Location of mill: TF 229 415

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

(Peter Kirk's bicycle is seen in the right foreground. Peter used this mode of transport to visit and photograph the County's mills.)

At the east end of the building is the wheelhouse with some of the mechanism visible above.

The waterwheel dates back to mid-seventeenth century though with much timber repair. It remains intact with all the milling machinery in place.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063659

Jean Howard, January 2021

The mill on Mill Lane was in use until the spring of 1947 when the exceptional weight of water from melting snow caused the sluice to jam. However the baking of bread and scones continued until 1961.

In 1963 the property was sold to the village doctor who lived in the house and made the outbuildings opposite into the village surgery. This remained the situation after his retirement in 1995 until the building of new medical premises in West Road.

The building is Grade II listed.

Jean Howard, January 2021 

Some former mill-stones have been set in the pavement on the south side of the lane.

Jean Howard, January 2021 

Like many other tower mills Eno's Mill at Toynton All Saints was built on the site of a post mill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The sails and cap were removed in 1958 and Eno's Mill was converted into a dwelling in the 1980s.

Much of the internal machinery was used in the restoration of Ellis's Mill in Lincoln.

The tower is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: TF 393 640

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This eight-storey mill, by Saunderson of Louth, was one of the last to be built in the county (1882).

It was fitted out with machinery from a demolished mill in Hull.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

In 1937 the mill tower was reduced in height and it was converted into a dwelling.

Location of mill: TF 513 840

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

"It was erected to replace a post mill in 1880-81 and originally stood at Newland, near Hull.

Mr Charles Foster bought it, demolished it and shipped everything but the bricks around to Mablethorpe where it was incorporated into a new tower.

The post mill was demolished and replaced in 1901 when a new tower mill replaced it.

The new tower mill lasted until 1935 and was then converted to a house, being only three storeys high by this time"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Trusthorpe-Windmill/241247.record?pt=S 

Marked as "Half Coast Windmill (Flour)" on the OS 25 inch map published 1906. 

Undated postcard published by Photochrom Co. Ltd.

Anderson's Mill was a four-sailed mill with four floors. It was built in the early nineteenth century.

This view of the working mill is along Silver Street.

William Abey's grocer's shop and post office are on the right.

Jon Sass Collection, undated postcard

Anderson's Mill was worked by wind until about 1910 and was driven by engine until 1946.

Since this photograph was taken the mill has been fitted with a replica ogee cap and the tower has been conserved.

It is a Grade II listed structure.

Location: SK 981 961

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

"Tower mill. Early C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359453 

DB 27 December 2020

A tower mill built in 1866, initially with three floors (later heightened to five) and four sails.

The mill worked until the early 1920s.

Exley Collection, photograph 1927

Now part of Bateman's Brewery this mill was built in the 1820s.

It had six floors and five sails. Milling ceased in 1922.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The windmill was bought by Batemans brewery in the early 1920s.

The sails of the mill have been removed.

The ground floor is now a bar open to visitors whilst the floor above is the company board-room. 

Location of mill: TF 495 586

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

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A mill built in the 1820s which ceased to work in 1947 after damage in a gale.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1934

The machinery in the mill was dismantled and removed in 1949.

The tower is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: TF 490 582

This seven-storey mill with six sails was built by Saundersons of Louth in 1880.

It was designed to also operate under steam power and ceased to work from wind power in the 1960s.

Frith postcard from David Robinson Collection, undated

This fine mill has six sails and seven storeys.

It ceased to work commercially in the 1960s but was later restored to full working order.

Location of mill: TA 259 033

Peter Kirk Collection, 1997

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Inscription states

"ERECTED

BY

HENRY MINN??

183?" 

DB 24 June 2018

Marked as a corn mill on the Ordnance Survey 25 inch map published 1905.

DB 24 June 2018

The first tower mill here, built in 1818, had three storeys and replaced a post mill on the same site.

It was later raised by a further three floors, probably in 1854. Milling ceased in the 1930s.

Postcard from David Robinson Collection, 1903

Wellingore Mill worked with four sails in the early part of the twentieth century and milling ceased altogether in the late 1940s.

Location of mill: SK 984 570

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

An updated view of the former mill. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 has an entry :-

"Loweth Henry,farmer & miller (wind)"

DB 29 October 2019

The plaque on the millstone reads :-

"2009 Welcome to Wellingore Windmill Field, the site of the Parish's former limestone quarry and working windmill. 

This structure commemorates the fundamental roles played by the quarry and the windmill in Wellingore's industrial and cultural history.

It also introduces a new role for this historic site.

The millstone was located at an old mill nearby and the supporting limestone blocks come from the quarry at Metheringham. 

The original 18th century windmill was a two storey building with five more floors added in 1854.

It was a working mill until the late 1930s and lost its sails during WWII when it was considered too much of a landmark for the Luftwaffe.

The quarry mined stone mainly for use in building and road repair.

It was closed, filled in and grassed over in the mid 1960s. 

The field belongs to the Parish and has been transformed into both a recreational amenity and a habitat in which local wildlife can thrive.

The Parish Council are most grateful for the generous financial donations from outside agencies and the hard work given freely by Parish residents, without which this project would not have been possible"

DB 29 October 2019

A mill which was built in the early nineteenth century with four floors and four sails and stands close to the bank of the Trent.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The machinery in Coggon's Mill was removed in the 1960s. It is Listed Grade II.

Since this photograph was taken the mill has been fitted with a new ogee cap and floors in the mill have been reinstated.

Location of mill: SE 836 066

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

"Mill, house and granary, now 2 houses. Cl7, 1773 granary with early C19 refronting of mill, and C20 alterations.

Late C18 L shaped block with water wheel to rear ...

Cl7 undershot water wheel modified C19, survives intact and is in working order; it is the only example in Lincolnshire of Poncelot's improved design" 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360193 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 has an entry "Molecey Mr John Molecey Twigge, Mill house".

DB 31 August 2020

"In the gable an ashlar datestone with initials JME and date 1773"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360193 

DB 31 August 2020

A second view of the mill which is located alongside the A1175 Stamford Road at National Grid Reference TF124098.

DB 31 August 2020

Watermill located just to the west of St Andrew's Church.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 has an entry "Hopkins Henry, corn miller"

DB 31 August 2020

This is a four-storeyed mill, originally with four sails, built in c.1800.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1920s

The mill at Shepeau Stow was worked by wind until the 1920s.

It is Listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TF 308 123

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

This tower mill, originally with only three floors, was built by Gray of Boston in c.1810 on Haven Bank and raised to give an additional floor in 1886.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

This mill is located on Haven Bank in Wildmore parish at: TF 241 533

This mill was built in the 1880s with a steam engine alongside to replace an earlier post mill.

It suffered a severe fire in 1887 and was reinstated with engine-driven machinery.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Kirkstead Mill had six storeys and four sails nad is now severely truncated.

Location of mill: TF 176 626

This mill was probably built in the early nineteenth century and disused before the First World War.

Location of mill: SK 836 363

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

The mill on Bardney Road was built in 1831 with seven storeys and six sails.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1903

Wragby windmill at the turn of the new century, refurbished and 're-tarred'.

Location of mill: TF 131 778 

Peter Kirk Collection, 2000

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A tower mill, originally with four floors and four sails, which was wind-powered until the 1920s.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

For a while Toft Mill was driven by engine; it is now converted into a house.

Location of mill: TF 443 516

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This three-storey tower mill was built in the 1820s and was later heightened.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1920s

Wrangle Mill worked by wind until the 1930s and then by electric power to c.1970.

Location of mill: TF 439 511

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

There has been a mill on this site for over 400 years.

The present mill was rebuilt in 1832 and refurbished in 1965.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1886

Wrawby Mill (TA 026088) was built in the mid-to late-18th century as an open trestle mill, the roundhouse being added in the early 19th century.

In this form, it continued as a working wind-powered mill until 1940.

It was restored to working order in the 1960s, it is now open to the public on several days each year.

Wrawby Mill is the only surviving postmill in Lincolnshire.

F Robinson, 2010

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This early nineteenth century mill had four sails and four floors.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1900

The mill at Wyberton worked into the early twentieth century and was reduced to a stump in 1935.

Location of mill: TF 307 428

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002