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Corn-milling site recorded
The Alford tower mill is recorded in specialist windmill sources as a wind-powered mill site.
Site overview
Hoyles Mill was a tower windmill at Alford. County windmill records place the mill in the early nineteenth century, with 1813 recorded as its construction or first documented date. It was a tower mill associated with Alford's wind-powered corn-milling landscape, distinct from the surviving five-sailed Alford windmill elsewhere in the town.
The site is recorded in specialist windmill gazetteers and county lists, preserving its identity as one of several Alford windmill sites that served the market town and surrounding agricultural district.
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
Hoyles Mill formed part of Alford's nineteenth-century wind-powered milling landscape. It is recorded as a tower mill, with 1813 given as the key date for its construction or first documented appearance. Alford had more than one windmill, and Hoyles Mill is separately identified from the better-known surviving five-sailed mill in the town.
The mill's recorded history is strongest for its identity, type, location, and early nineteenth-century date. As a tower mill, it belonged to the group of brick or masonry windmills that came to dominate much of Lincolnshire milling in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its site remains part of the wider pattern of former mills around Alford, where wind power supported corn milling for the local agricultural economy.
Timeline
1813
Tower mill recorded
Hoyles Mill is recorded as an Alford tower mill with an 1813 date.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry: Alford tower mill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Mills Archive catalogue references for Alford windmills
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Mills Archive catalogue references for Alford windmills