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Four-sailed corn mill in use
East Mill was a wind-powered tower corn mill with four sails.
Site overview
East Mill was a tower corn mill at Billinghay in North Kesteven. The mill is recorded in specialist mill sources as a wind-powered tower mill with a corn-milling function. The county windmill list gives an 1806 date for the Billinghay East Mill tower, replacing an earlier East Mill post mill that was demolished in 1844.
Historic photographs show the remains of East Mill from West Street and Victoria Street in the mid twentieth century, including images from June 1934. The mill had four sails. The site now represents one of Billinghay's recorded windmill survivals within a village that also had West Mill and a smock mill.
Map
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History
East Mill was one of several windmills recorded at Billinghay. An earlier East Mill post mill was demolished in 1844, while the tower mill recorded as East Mill is dated to 1806 in the Lincolnshire windmill list. Specialist mill records identify the later structure as a wind-powered tower corn mill.
The mill had four sails and stood on the eastern side of the Billinghay windmill landscape. Historic photographic collections preserve the remains of East Mill from West Street and Victoria Street, including views from June 1934 and mid twentieth-century prints. These images show that the mill remained a visible structure after its full working equipment had been reduced.
East Mill is part of a closely grouped village milling history. Billinghay also had West Mill, a six-sailed tower mill, and a smock mill recorded as standing in 1923. East Mill's surviving record is strongest for its tower-mill form, four-sailed arrangement, corn-milling function, mapped location, and later photographic survival as standing remains.
Timeline
1806
Tower mill built
East Mill at Billinghay is recorded as a tower mill dating from 1806.
1934
Mill photographed from Victoria Street
Historic photographs recorded East Mill at Billinghay in June 1934.
1950–1959
Remains photographed from West Street
Mid twentieth-century photographs recorded the remains of East Mill from West Street.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Historic England photographic collection
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Mills Archive site record
Historic England photographic collection
List of windmills in Lincolnshire