Burton upon Stather Post Mill

Site overview

Burton upon Stather Post Mill is recorded as a former post windmill site in North Lincolnshire. Specialist windmill mapping gives an approximate location at Burton upon Stather and identifies the mill type as a post mill. The recorded site belongs to the older post-mill tradition, in which the whole body of the mill was turned to face the wind.

The surviving published record is strongest for the mill's identity, approximate location, and structural type rather than for a detailed chronology of construction, ownership, working life, or demolition.

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

Burton upon Stather Post Mill was a post windmill site at Burton upon Stather. The published windmill record identifies the site by place and type, giving an approximate location in the village area. As a post mill, it represented an earlier form of windmill construction than the later tower mills that became common across Lincolnshire.

In this type of mill the main body turned around a central post so that the sails could be brought into the wind. The documented record for this site preserves its identity and form, placing it within the historic wind-powered milling landscape of North Lincolnshire. The available published details do not support a fuller chronological account, but the site remains a positive record of a former Burton upon Stather post mill.

Timeline

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Post mill recorded

Burton upon Stather Post Mill is recorded as a wind-powered post mill site.

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Former mill site mapped

The former post mill site is mapped at an approximate location in Burton upon Stather.

Sources and records

Windmill World site entry: Burton upon Stather post mill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Mills Archive catalogue references for Lincolnshire post mills