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Tower mill site recorded
The Ashby Folville site is recorded in specialist windmill gazetteers as a tower mill.
Site overview
Ashby Folville Mill, also recorded as Gaddesby Mill, is a former tower mill at Ashby Folville in Leicestershire. Specialist windmill records identify the site at 52.70498, -0.9690 and classify it as a tower mill. County windmill lists record the mill as an early nineteenth-century tower mill.
The surviving public record is limited, but it establishes the site identity, type, locality, and broad period. The windmill is therefore best treated as a former tower mill site in the Ashby Folville landscape rather than as the Waltham on the Wolds mill, which is a separate recorded Leicestershire tower mill.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Ashby Folville Mill was a tower mill at Ashby Folville in Leicestershire. It is also recorded in county windmill lists as Gaddesby Mill, reflecting the relationship between the mill site and the neighbouring locality. The mill is identified in specialist windmill records at 52.70498, -0.9690 and classified as a tower mill.
The recorded chronology places the mill in the early nineteenth century. The published summary does not support a fuller account of individual owners, millers, machinery, or later alteration, so the strongest positive record is the site's identity as an early nineteenth-century tower mill. The site forms part of the dispersed pattern of Leicestershire windmills that served villages and agricultural districts before later milling changes reduced the role of local wind power.
Ashby Folville Mill is therefore a recorded former tower mill site, included for its identifiable location and place within the county's wind-powered corn-milling landscape.
Timeline
1800–1839
Tower mill built or recorded
Ashby Folville Mill is recorded as an early nineteenth-century tower mill.
Sources and records
Windmill World Leicestershire windmills gazetteer
List of windmills in Leicestershire
Mills Archive site reference
List of windmills in Leicestershire
Mills Archive site reference