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Corn milling function recorded
Windmill Hill is recorded as the site of a tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Windmill Hill is a former tower corn mill site near Broughton in Furness. The site is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling, and its visible remains have been described as a short curved section of mortared wall built into a dry-stone field boundary. The survival is therefore slight, but it preserves a physical trace of a former windmill in the Broughton West landscape.
The place-name Windmill Hill also records the mill's historic presence on the route above Broughton in Furness. The site sits within the wider Furness windmill group, alongside the better-recorded Eccleriggs Mill nearby.
Map
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History
Windmill Hill near Broughton in Furness is the site of a former tower corn mill. The mill is recorded as part of the Furness windmill landscape, where wind-powered corn milling was established on exposed ground above the settlement.
The physical survival is fragmentary. Later descriptions identify the remains as a short curved section of mortared wall incorporated into a dry-stone field boundary. This limited fabric is consistent with a former tower mill reduced to a low structural remnant rather than a standing tower. The name Windmill Hill preserves the former use of the site and marks it within the local topography.
The site is closely associated with the Broughton West landscape and lies near the recorded Eccleriggs windmill. Together, these sites show that Broughton in Furness had more than one wind-powered corn mill. Windmill Hill is now best understood as a site-only survival: a named hill and field-boundary fragment preserving the position of a former tower corn mill.
Timeline
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Fragmentary wall remains recorded
The surviving remains were described as a short curved section of mortared wall built into a dry-stone field boundary.
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Windmill Hill place-name preserved
The Windmill Hill name continued to mark the former windmill site in the Broughton West landscape.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Cumbria Industrial History Society article
Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Geograph photographic note
Mills Archive site record
Cumbria Industrial History Society article
Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Geograph photographic note