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Tower corn mill recorded
Mill Road Mill at Crowle is recorded as a tower corn mill.
Site overview
Mill Road Mill was a tower corn mill at Crowle on the Isle of Axholme in North Lincolnshire. Specialist mill records identify it as one of the Crowle windmills, while wider Lincolnshire windmill lists record both Godnow Road Mill and Mill Road Mill among the town's former tower mills. The mill belonged to a nineteenth- and early twentieth-century milling landscape in a market town that had several windmills and other agricultural industries.
The tower mill no longer survives as a working windmill, but its recorded identity preserves part of Crowle's former wind-powered corn-milling history.
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History
Crowle was a market town with several windmills by the late nineteenth century. Historic mapping and local accounts record windmills on Godnow Road and Mill Road, and specialist mill records identify Mill Road Mill as a tower corn mill. The mill formed part of the town's agricultural and milling economy, in a landscape shaped by the Isle of Axholme's reclaimed lowlands, arable farming, and road and canal connections.
Mill Road Mill is recorded separately from Godnow Road Mill and from a post mill at Crowle. The known lifecycle is strongest for its identification as a tower corn mill and its later disappearance. Lincolnshire windmill lists record Mill Road Mill as demolished in the 1950s or 1960s, while Godnow Road Mill was still standing in the 1950s and gone by the 1970s.
Mill Road Mill is therefore best recorded as a former tower corn mill of Crowle, now represented by documentary and specialist mill records rather than by a preserved complete windmill.
Timeline
1893
Crowle windmills mapped
Late nineteenth-century mapping recorded several windmills at Crowle, including mills on Godnow Road and Mill Road.
1950–1969
Mill demolished
Mill Road Mill was demolished in the 1950s or 1960s.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Lincolnshire windmill list
Crowle local history summary
Mills Archive record
Lincolnshire windmill list
Crowle local history summary