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Sails removed
The sails were removed before later photographic records of the tower within the brewery site.
Site overview
Salem Bridge Mill is a former tower windmill at Wainfleet All Saints in Lincolnshire. It stands beside the Steeping River at Salem Bridge and is now incorporated into the Batemans Brewery site. The mill is recorded as a tower corn mill and is a prominent landmark on the southern side of Wainfleet.
Its sails have been removed, and historic images show the tower without sails, built into adjoining brewery buildings. The survival of the tower within an active brewery complex makes it a distinctive example of a former windmill adapted into later industrial use.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Salem Bridge Mill was a tower corn mill at Wainfleet All Saints, a small port and market town on the Steeping River. It is usually dated to about 1820 and stood at Salem Bridge, where the windmill occupied a prominent position on the southern side of the town. The mill later passed into brewery use.
It was bought by Batemans in the early 1920s and became incorporated into the brewery premises. By the time of later photographic records the sails had been removed, and the tower appeared as a roofed or castellated windmill tower built into adjoining industrial buildings, with a weather vane rather than working sails. The ground floor became part of the brewery complex.
The tower therefore survives not as a complete working windmill but as a substantial reused windmill structure embedded in one of Wainfleet's best-known industrial sites. Its continued visibility at Salem Bridge links the town's wind-powered milling history with its later brewing industry.
Timeline
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Incorporated into brewery
The former windmill tower survives as part of George Bateman and Son's Brewery at Salem Bridge.
1820
Tower mill built
Salem Bridge Mill is recorded as a tower mill dating from about 1820.
1920–1929
Bought by Batemans
The windmill was bought by Batemans brewery in the early 1920s.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology catalogue
Wainfleet town visitor information
Lincolnshire Museums photographic record
Lincolnshire windmill list
Mills Archive record
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology catalogue
Wainfleet town visitor information
Lincolnshire Museums photographic record
Lincolnshire windmill list