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Corn milling use recorded
The mill is recorded as a tower corn mill at Gedney Hill.
Site overview
Gedney Hill Mill is a former tower corn mill on Mill Lane, Gedney Hill. It is recorded in specialist mill sources as a tower mill and was photographed in the early 1950s beside a house with blocked openings. County windmill records give 1824 for the mill and note that it was dismantled in the late 1920s.
Later photographs show the old mill and mill house surviving as a recognisable post-working site. The mill preserves the standing memory of Gedney Hill's wind-powered corn-milling history within the South Holland fenland landscape.
Map
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History
Gedney Hill Mill was a tower corn mill on Mill Lane, Gedney Hill. It was part of the South Holland fenland milling landscape, where wind-powered mills served scattered agricultural settlements and drainage-side communities.
The mill is recorded in specialist windmill catalogues as a tower corn mill, and the county windmill list gives 1824 as its date. Its working windmill form had ended by the late 1920s, when the mill was dismantled. This removed the main external working apparatus but left the site identifiable through its surviving tower and associated mill-house setting.
Historic England photographic records from the early 1950s show Gedney Hill Mill beside a house with blocked openings, viewed from a working agricultural scene. Later photographs from the 2000s and 2010s record the old mill and mill house on Mill Lane. The present site is therefore a former tower-mill survival rather than a working windmill, with its importance lying in the retained tower fabric and its clear association with Gedney Hill's rural corn-milling history.
Timeline
1824
Tower mill built
Gedney Hill Mill is recorded as an 1824 tower mill.
1920–1929
Mill dismantled
The tower mill was dismantled in the late 1920s.
1950–1959
Old mill photographed
Early 1950s photographic records show Gedney Hill Mill and the associated house on Mill Lane.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Historic England photographic record
Geograph photographic records
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Mills Archive record
Historic England photographic record
Geograph photographic records
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
List of windmills in Lincolnshire