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Corn milling use recorded
The mill is recorded as a tower corn mill at Carrington.
Site overview
Watkinson's Mill is a former tower corn mill at Carrington, standing next to Watkinson's Bridge. It was built in 1821 and is protected as a Grade II listed building under the name Windmill Next Watkinson's Bridge. The listed structure is a tarred red-brick tower windmill, later used as a store.
It forms one of the two recorded Carrington tower mills, alongside Rundle's Mill. The mill's surviving value lies in its standing early nineteenth-century tower fabric and its clear connection with the agricultural milling landscape of Carrington.
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History
Watkinson's Mill is the listed tower windmill next to Watkinson's Bridge at Carrington. It was built in 1821 as a tower corn mill and is one of the two named Carrington tower mills recorded in specialist windmill sources.
The mill is built of tarred red brick and later lost its original wind-powered working form. The listed description records it as a tower windmill later used as a store, showing the building's post-milling adaptation while retaining its historic tower fabric. Its location beside Watkinson's Bridge preserves the local name attached to the mill and distinguishes it from Rundle's Mill elsewhere in Carrington.
Watkinson's Mill was listed at Grade II on 17 March 1988. The surviving tower represents a clear early nineteenth-century windmill survival within the Lincolnshire fenland landscape. Although the sails, cap, and machinery are no longer part of the working windmill arrangement, the standing listed tower continues to mark Carrington's wind-powered corn-milling history.
Timeline
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Used as a store
The former tower windmill was later used as a store.
1821
Tower mill built
Watkinson's Mill was built in 1821 as a tower windmill.
1988
Grade II listed
Windmill Next Watkinson's Bridge was listed at Grade II on 17 March 1988.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Windmills of Lincolnshire list
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Windmills of Lincolnshire list
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman