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Wind-powered corn milling recorded
Common Mill is recorded as a wind-powered tower corn mill at Spalding.
Site overview
Common Mill was a wind-powered tower corn mill at Spalding. The site is recorded as a Lincolnshire tower mill and corn mill, with its position fixed by the national grid reference TF 234 201. Its documented identity places it among the wind-powered corn mills that once served the agricultural fenland around Spalding.
The surviving record is strongest for the mill's identity, location, power source, type, and function rather than for its detailed working life or later alteration. Specialist mill records attach the name Common Mill to the Spalding site and distinguish it from the separate Pinchbeck tower mills further north.
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History
Common Mill formed part of Spalding's wind-powered milling landscape. It is identified as a tower mill using wind power and serving as a corn mill, with its location recorded at National Grid Reference TF 234 201. The mill's position on the southern side of Spalding places it within the low-lying fenland agricultural setting for which tower corn mills were an important local feature.
The documented record preserves the mill's name, type, function, and location, but not a detailed chronology of construction, ownership, repair, machinery, or closure. Its significance for this register is therefore as a positively identified Spalding tower corn mill site rather than as a fully documented surviving mill with a recoverable technical history. The name Common Mill is the most specific researched name attached to the site.
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Mill site recorded
The site is recorded at National Grid Reference TF 234 201 and latitude 52.76421834, longitude -0.17283339.
Sources and records
Mills Archive site record: Common Mill, Spalding
Windmill World site entry: Spalding tower mill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Windmill World site entry: Spalding tower mill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire