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Tower corn mill recorded
Butterwick Mill is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Butterwick Mill is a former tower mill at Butterwick in Lincolnshire. Specialist windmill records identify it as a tower mill with a corn-milling function, and the Windmills of Lincolnshire list records the site at Butterwick. The mill belongs to the group of wind-powered tower mills that served the agricultural villages east of Boston.
Its surviving record is limited but positive, establishing the site as a documented former corn windmill rather than a watermill or modern structure. The site preserves the identity of Butterwick's wind-powered milling history within the fen-edge village landscape.
Map
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History
Butterwick Mill was a tower corn mill serving the village of Butterwick, east of Boston. The mill is recorded in specialist windmill sources as a tower mill, and its function is given as corn milling.
The site formed part of the wider Lincolnshire fenland and coastal-plain milling landscape, where tower windmills provided local grinding capacity for agricultural settlements. Butterwick's mill is less fully documented than some of the county's larger restored mills, but the surviving record establishes its type, function, and place within the village.
The present site is therefore a documented former tower corn mill rather than a complete working windmill. Its significance lies in the survival of the recorded mill site and its contribution to the local history of wind-powered corn milling around Butterwick and the lower Witham district.
Timeline
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Former windmill site recorded
The former tower mill is recorded as a Butterwick windmill site in county windmill listings.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Windmills of Lincolnshire list
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Mills Archive record
Windmills of Lincolnshire list
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman