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Wind-powered tower mill recorded
Hogsthorpe Mill is recorded in specialist windmill mapping as a tower mill.
Site overview
Hogsthorpe Mill was a tower windmill at Hogsthorpe. County windmill records date the mill to about 1803 and specialist windmill mapping identifies it as a tower mill. The mill stood in a village close to the Lincolnshire coastal marshes, serving the agricultural landscape around Hogsthorpe.
It was still standing in 1945, placing its physical survival into the mid twentieth century. The recorded history is strongest for the mill's type, approximate date, location, and later survival rather than for a detailed account of owners, millers, machinery, or final demolition.
Map
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History
Hogsthorpe Mill was an early nineteenth-century tower windmill at Hogsthorpe. It is recorded with a date of about 1803 and identified as a tower mill, the form that became characteristic of many Lincolnshire corn mills during this period. The mill served a rural village close to the Lincolnshire coastal plain, where wind-powered milling formed part of the agricultural economy.
The building was still standing in 1945, showing that it survived as a visible structure into the mid twentieth century. Later records preserve the site as a former tower mill, but the detailed working chronology, machinery, and final loss of the tower are less fully documented in readily accessible sources. Its recorded identity remains significant as one of the former village tower mill sites of the Lincolnshire coastland.
Timeline
1803
Tower mill constructed
Hogsthorpe Mill is recorded as a tower mill dating from about 1803.
1945
Mill still standing
The tower mill was recorded as still standing in 1945.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry: Hogsthorpe tower mill
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Mills Archive catalogue references for Lincolnshire tower mills
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Mills Archive catalogue references for Lincolnshire tower mills