Pinwall Post Mill Pinwall · Leicestershire · England

Pinwall Post Mill was one of the Leicestershire post mills that survived into the era of late nineteenth-century mapping but has not remained as a visible mill structure. It stood near Pinwall, close to Witherley and the River Anker landscape on the Leicestershire boundary with Warwickshire. Specialist mill records identify it as a post mill, the timber form of windmill in which the body revolved on a central post rather than carrying only a rotating cap.

The mill was shown as disused on the 1885 Ordnance Survey map. No standing remains have been identified at the recorded site in the modern windmill gazetteer. A historic photograph of an unnamed open-trestle post mill has been discussed as probably showing Pinwall rather than Baxterley, which indicates that the mill may have survived into the photographic period, but the secure public record is strongest for the mapped disused site and its identification as a post mill. Today the site is represented by the former mill location rather than by surviving fabric.