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Corn milling use recorded
Bell's Mill is recorded as a tower mill with corn-milling function.
Site overview
Bell's Mill is a former tower mill at Brigg, identified in specialist mill records as a corn mill and saw mill. It operated as a sawmill before 1822 and was later recorded as Bell's Mill in archive and county windmill sources. The surviving structure is a tower mill, and photographic records show the mill after the loss of its working sails and cap.
Its later history is represented chiefly by the standing tower fabric and twentieth-century photographic material rather than by a detailed working chronology. The site preserves a visible reminder of Brigg's wind-powered milling and saw-milling history within the town landscape.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Bell's Mill was one of the tower mills of Brigg, a market town on the River Ancholme. Specialist mill records identify it as a tower mill used for both corn milling and saw milling, giving the site a dual agricultural and industrial function.
The mill was already operating as a sawmill before 1822. That early saw-milling record places it within the wider use of wind power for timber-working as well as grain processing. The later name Bell's Mill is preserved in archive catalogue material and in specialist windmill records, while photographic records show the tower in its post-working state.
The surviving building is a tower-mill survival rather than a complete working windmill. The cap, sails, and working wind-powered appearance have gone, but the retained tower fabric continues to mark the former mill site in Brigg. Its significance lies in the survival of a named local windmill and in the documented combination of corn-milling and saw-milling use.
Timeline
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Working windmill form lost
Photographic records show the former mill after the loss of its complete working windmill form.
1822
Saw-milling use recorded
The mill was operating as a sawmill before 1822.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Mills Archive photographic catalogue
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Windmills of Lincolnshire list
Mills Archive record
Mills Archive photographic catalogue
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Windmills of Lincolnshire list