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Tower corn mill recorded
The Wakey Island site is recorded as a wind-powered tower corn mill at Barrow-in-Furness.
Site overview
The tower mill at Wakey Island is recorded as a former wind-powered corn mill site in Barrow-in-Furness. It is identified in mill gazetteer material as a tower mill using wind power for corn milling. The site lies within the historic Lancashire area of Furness, now associated with Barrow-in-Furness.
The available record is strongest for identification, location, mill type, and original function rather than for a detailed working chronology. No standing working mill is represented by the present site entry, and the site is best understood as a former tower mill location within the industrial and coastal landscape of Barrow.
Map
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History
The Wakey Island tower mill is recorded as a former wind-powered corn mill at Barrow-in-Furness. The site is identified in modern mill listings as a tower mill, with its function given as corn milling and its power source as wind. This places it among the wind-powered grain-processing sites of historic Lancashire, although the modern administrative setting is Barrow-in-Furness in Furness.
The known history is clearest for the mill's identity and type. It was a tower mill rather than a post mill or smock mill, and it served a corn-milling function. Its location at Wakey Island links it with the coastal and industrial landscape around Barrow, where later development has altered or removed many earlier features.
The site is now represented as a former windmill location rather than as a complete standing mill. The available published record does not support a fuller chronological account of construction, ownership, operation, closure, or surviving fabric, so the public record should remain focused on the positive identification of the site as a former tower corn mill.
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Sources and records
All Windmills site entry
Windmill World Cumbria and Furness windmill list
Windmill World Cumbria and Furness windmill list