Site overview
Martin's Hill Mill is a former tower corn mill at Oddington, now associated with Millway Tower. The windmill was marked as the ruins of Oddington Mill on Bryant's map and as Oddington Mill on the first edition Ordnance Survey map. It gave its name to Millway Field, recorded in 1584, was rebuilt in 1813, and had ceased working by 1884.
Part of the building remained in 1960. Specialist mill records identify the site as Martin's Hill Mill, a tower corn mill. Later photographs describe the former windmill as long stripped of sails and converted into residential use, with modern architectural work incorporating the old tower.
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History
Martin's Hill Mill was a tower corn mill at Oddington. The windmill was marked on Bryant's map as the ruins of Oddington Mill and on the first edition Ordnance Survey map as Oddington Mill. The site gave its name to Millway Field, recorded in 1584.
The mill was rebuilt in 1813 and had ceased working by 1884. Part of the building remained in 1960, and later records continued to mark it as a disused windmill. Specialist mill records identify the site as Martin's Hill Mill, Oddington, and record its function as corn milling.
The former windmill has since been converted and extended as Millway Tower. Photographs from 2006 describe the building as a former windmill that had long lost its sails and had been converted into a residential property. Modern architectural accounts describe Millway Tower as a restored, converted, and extended Victorian windmill between Stow-on-the-Wold and Upper and Lower Oddington. The site therefore preserves a heavily adapted but visible tower-mill survival on Martin's Hill.
Timeline
Windmill rebuilt
Working life ended
Partial survival recorded
Converted windmill photographed
Converted Millway Tower recorded
Sources and records
Mills Archive site record
Gloucestershire Historical Studies article
Geograph photographic record
Tyack Architects project article
Modern House Index record