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Former windmill site
The recorded post mill is represented by a former windmill site rather than a complete standing mill.
Site overview
Baldock Windmill was a post windmill site recorded in the historic windmill lists for Hertfordshire. The site appears in the early map sequence from the late seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, with recorded appearances on maps of 1676, 1695, 1700, 1720, 1728, 1749, and 1766. The recorded mill was a post mill, the usual form of early windmill in this part of the county.
Its documented history is strongest for the location and map record rather than for later survival. The site is therefore best understood as a former wind-powered milling site in the agricultural landscape around Baldock, rather than as a standing mill building.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Baldock Windmill is recorded in Hertfordshire windmill lists as a former post windmill site. The mill appears in the map sequence from the late seventeenth century to the mid eighteenth century, with entries for 1676, 1695, 1700, 1720, 1728, 1749, and 1766. This repeated mapping indicates a long-lived windmill presence at Baldock during the period when post mills remained the dominant windmill form in much of the county.
The recorded mill was a post mill. Its working role was the wind-powered milling of grain for the local agricultural community. The later structural history is not developed in the surviving summary record, and the site is now a former windmill location rather than a complete preserved windmill. Its positive historical value lies in the continuity of its map record and in its place within Baldock's early modern milling landscape.
Timeline
1676
Post mill recorded
A post windmill at Baldock is recorded in the late seventeenth-century map sequence.
1695–1766
Mill shown on successive maps
The Baldock post mill appears on maps from 1695, 1700, 1720, 1728, 1749, and 1766.
Sources and records
List of windmills in Hertfordshire
Windmills of Hertfordshire reference material
Historic county windmill map sources
Windmills of Hertfordshire reference material
Historic county windmill map sources