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Site overview

Hudson's Mill was a tower corn mill at Baston in south Lincolnshire. Specialist mill records identify the site as a wind-powered tower mill with a corn-milling function, located at Baston on the edge of the fenland landscape. The county windmill list records Hudson's Mill as a tower mill dating from 1806.

The surviving public record is strongest for the mill's identity, location, construction date, power source, type, and function. The mill forms part of the wider South Lincolnshire pattern of substantial brick tower mills serving fen-edge agricultural communities.

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History

Hudson's Mill stood at Baston, a fen-edge village in south Lincolnshire. It was a wind-powered tower corn mill, the fixed masonry form of mill in which only the cap and sails turned to face the wind. The county windmill list records Hudson's Mill as a tower mill dating from 1806, and the Mills Archive identifies the site as a wind-powered corn mill in the historic county of Lincolnshire.

The mill belonged to a dense milling landscape along the southern Lincolnshire fen edge, where arable farming, grain production, and local settlement supported many wind-powered corn mills. Its recorded location at Baston distinguishes it from the better-known Bourne windmill sites to the north. The modern record preserves the site primarily through mill gazetteers and archive catalogue entries. Those sources establish the site's identity as Hudson's Mill, its tower-mill form, and its corn-milling role.

Timeline

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Corn mill in use

Hudson's Mill functioned as a wind-powered corn mill.
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Windmill site recorded

The Baston tower mill site is preserved in specialist windmill gazetteers and archive records.
1806

Tower mill built

Hudson's Mill at Baston is recorded as a tower mill dating from 1806.

Sources and records

Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire