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Tower windmill site recorded
The site is recorded as a former tower windmill in the Claythorpe and Welton le Marsh area.
Site overview
Claythorpe Windmill was a former tower windmill site in the Claythorpe and Welton le Marsh area. The coordinates place the site away from Alford town and within the rural landscape around Claythorpe. Published local sources for the area more strongly document Claythorpe's watermill than the windmill site, but the submitted windmill classification and mapped position identify this as a former tower windmill site rather than the surviving watermill.
The public record supports a cautious site account focused on the former windmill identity, tower type, and rural setting.
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
Claythorpe Windmill is recorded as a former tower windmill site in the rural landscape around Claythorpe and Welton le Marsh. The site lies away from Alford town and should be treated as part of the Claythorpe locality. The surrounding area is also associated with Claythorpe Watermill on the Great Eau, but this record concerns the former wind-powered tower mill site.
The documented windmill history is limited to the site identity, tower-mill classification, and mapped location, so the site is best presented as a former windmill location rather than as a surviving or technically documented mill. Its value for the register is as a mapped former Lincolnshire tower mill site within the small-settlement and agricultural landscape between the Wolds and the coastal plain.
Timeline
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Former windmill location survives
The former windmill is represented as a mapped site in the rural Claythorpe landscape.
Sources and records
Windmill World gazetteer of Lincolnshire windmills
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Claythorpe Watermill local history material
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Claythorpe Watermill local history material