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Tower mill in use
Pelham's Lands Tower Mill is recorded as a wind-powered tower mill.
Site overview
Pelham's Lands Tower Mill is a former tower windmill in Lincolnshire. Specialist mill records identify the site as a tower mill and place it among the surviving windmill structures of the county. The mill is distinct from the better-known Heckington village mills, including the restored eight-sailed Pocklington's Mill and the truncated Mowbray's Mill.
The public record is strongest for the mill's location, tower-mill type, and recognition in county windmill gazetteers. It survives in the record as part of the wider south Lincolnshire pattern of small rural tower mills serving agricultural settlements and fen-edge farms.
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
Pelham's Lands Tower Mill was one of the smaller rural tower mills recorded in Lincolnshire. It is identified in specialist windmill gazetteers as a tower mill at Pelham's Lands, separate from the named Heckington mills elsewhere in the district. The tower-mill form places it within the nineteenth-century Lincolnshire tradition of fixed brick or masonry towers carrying a rotating cap and sails.
The accessible public record for Pelham's Lands is concise, but it consistently preserves the site as a recorded former windmill structure. Its significance lies in documenting a lesser-known rural milling site within a county where many such towers survived only as reduced buildings, stumps, or map and photographic records. The site therefore adds to the wider record of wind-powered milling beyond the larger and better-restored county landmarks.
Timeline
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Windmill site recorded
The tower mill site is preserved in specialist Lincolnshire windmill gazetteers.
Sources and records
Windmill World Lincolnshire gazetteer
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