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Corn mill in use
Mowbray's Mill worked as a wind-powered tower corn mill.
Site overview
Mowbray's Mill is a former tower corn mill at Heckington. It is recorded in specialist mill sources as a wind-powered tower mill with a corn-milling function and survives as a truncated tower. The Lincolnshire county windmill list records Mowbray's Mill as an early nineteenth-century tower mill and notes that it was truncated in 1931.
It is distinct from the restored eight-sailed Heckington Windmill nearby. The site preserves a reduced but visible part of Heckington's wider windmilling landscape, where several tower mills once stood.
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History
Mowbray's Mill was one of several tower windmills at Heckington. The village is best known for its restored eight-sailed mill, but the windmilling landscape also included Mowbray's Mill, Pocklington's Mill, and other recorded towers. Mowbray's Mill was a wind-powered tower corn mill and is recorded as dating from the early nineteenth century.
The mill's complete working form did not survive. The Lincolnshire windmill list records that it was truncated in 1931, and specialist mill records describe the surviving structure as a truncated tower. This marks a common post-working phase in which cap, sails, and upper working fabric were lost while the lower tower remained.
Mowbray's Mill is therefore a reduced survival rather than a restored working windmill. Its remaining tower records the breadth of Heckington's milling history beyond the famous eight-sailed mill and preserves the position of another former tower corn mill within the village landscape.
Timeline
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Truncated tower survives
The former mill survives as a truncated tower.
1800–1833
Tower mill built
Mowbray's Mill is recorded as an early nineteenth-century tower mill.
1931
Tower truncated
The tower was truncated in 1931.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman