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Corn milling use recorded
The mill is recorded as a tower corn mill at Horsington.
Site overview
Green's Mill was a tower corn mill at Horsington. It was built in 1827 with five floors and four sails, and it worked until the early twentieth century. The mill was later reduced to a two-storey stump before 1932.
Specialist and photographic records distinguish it from Hill's Mill, another Horsington tower mill built nearby. Green's Mill is therefore represented by a reduced tower survival rather than a complete working mill. Its importance lies in the surviving stump and the recorded history of a nineteenth-century rural corn mill within the Horsington village landscape.
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History
Green's Mill was one of two recorded tower mills at Horsington. It was built in 1827 as a five-floor tower mill with four sails and worked as a corn mill serving the village and surrounding agricultural land.
The mill remained active into the early twentieth century. Its later working life is linked with the local Green family, and Horsington village records include wind millers in the early twentieth century. After milling ended, the tower lost its complete windmill form. It had been reduced to a two-storey stump before 1932, leaving a compact masonry survival rather than a cap, sails, and working tower.
Green's Mill is distinct from Hill's Mill, another Horsington tower mill recorded nearby. The two mills together show that Horsington once had a more substantial wind-powered milling landscape than the surviving fabric alone might suggest. The present value of Green's Mill lies in the retained stump, its documented 1827 construction, and its place within the village's nineteenth-century corn-milling history.
Timeline
1827
Tower mill built
Green's Mill was built in 1827 with five floors and four sails.
1900–1929
Mill worked into twentieth century
Green's Mill worked until the early twentieth century.
1932
Tower reduced
The mill had been reduced to a two-storey stump before 1932.
Sources and records
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology photographic record
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman