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Corn mill in use
Brock's Mill functioned as a wind-powered tower corn mill.
Site overview
Brock's Mill is a former tower corn mill at Haxey. Specialist mill sources identify it as a wind-powered tower mill and the county windmill list records Haxey Mill as dating from 1823, standing in 1923 and gone by 1953. Mills Archive photography records the remains of Haxey Windmill with only the lower half remaining.
The site is distinct from Burnham Mill at Low Burnham and forms part of the wider Isle of Axholme windmilling landscape. The surviving record is strongest for the mill's identity, tower-mill type, corn-milling function, early nineteenth-century date, and later reduction.
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
Brock's Mill was a tower corn mill at Haxey. It belonged to the Isle of Axholme group of wind-powered corn mills and is recorded in specialist mill sources as a tower mill. The Lincolnshire windmill list records Haxey Mill as dating from 1823, standing in 1923, and gone by 1953.
The mill did not survive as a complete tower. Mills Archive imagery records the remains of Haxey Windmill with only the lower half remaining, showing that the upper tower, cap, and wind gear had been lost while part of the masonry structure remained visible. In that reduced form the site preserves the location and lower fabric of a once working nineteenth-century tower mill.
Brock's Mill is separate from Burnham Mill at Low Burnham, another Haxey parish tower mill. Its known public history is comparatively concise, but the principal lifecycle is clear: establishment as a tower corn mill, survival into the early twentieth century, and later reduction to lower tower remains.
Timeline
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Lower tower remains photographed
The remains of Haxey Windmill were photographed with only the lower half surviving.
1823
Tower mill built
Haxey Mill is recorded as a tower mill dating from 1823.
1923
Mill still standing
Haxey Mill was recorded as standing in 1923.
1953
Complete tower lost
The mill was recorded as gone by 1953.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive photographic catalogue
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Mills Archive photographic catalogue
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire