South Normanton Post Mill South Normanton · Derbyshire · England

The Post Mill at South Normanton stood on Normanton Common. It was a post corn mill and formed part of a group of South Normanton windmills that also included surviving or converted tower mills. Derbyshire windmill lists give the post mill a date around 1805 and record it as working until 1908.

After the end of its working life, the mill survived for many years in a reduced state. Its open timber framework remained standing after the loss of much of the enclosed mill body. Photographs recorded the structure in 1946, around 1955, in 1958, and in 1978, preserving a visual history of the declining post mill. The Muggeridge Collection includes multiple views of the mill on Normanton Common, including two colour slides taken on 6 August 1958.

The remains were dismantled and placed in storage, but the storage did not preserve the structure successfully. Most of the stored material was later believed to have rotted away. Derbyshire windmill lists record dismantling in 1980, a conclusion in 1997 that the remains were beyond restoration, and subsequent burning. The site is therefore a post-mill location whose later history is defined by survival as a skeletal framework, dismantling, deterioration in storage, and eventual loss of most surviving fabric.