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Tower mill in use
East Kirkby Windmill operated as a tower windmill.
Site overview
East Kirkby Windmill is a former tower mill on Spilsby Road, East Kirkby. Specialist mill sources identify the site as a tower windmill, and Historic England records the building as a listed windmill on Spilsby Road. Historic photographs show the mill in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, after the end of its working life.
The mill is part of the Lincolnshire Wolds-edge windmilling landscape, where tower mills served agricultural villages and small market centres. The public record is strongest for the mill's identity, location, tower-mill form, listed status, and visible survival.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
East Kirkby Windmill stands on Spilsby Road at East Kirkby. It was a tower mill, the fixed masonry form of windmill that became widespread across Lincolnshire. The building is identified in specialist mill records and in the statutory-list photographic record.
The mill's surviving public documentation is centred on its standing structure rather than a detailed operational chronology. Historic England recorded the windmill as part of the Images of England project, and later photographs show the tower surviving as a prominent village landmark. The windmill's historic working function has ended, but its tower remains an important visual and architectural survival of East Kirkby's wind-powered milling history.
Timeline
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Listed building designation
East Kirkby Windmill is recorded as a listed windmill structure.
2001
Windmill photographed
East Kirkby Windmill on Spilsby Road was photographed for the Images of England project.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry
Historic England Images of England photograph
Mills Archive site record
Windmill World site entry
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Geograph photograph records
Historic England Images of England photograph
Mills Archive site record
Windmill World site entry
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Geograph photograph records