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Tower corn mill recorded
The site is recorded as a wind-powered tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Great Whittington Tower Mill is a surviving wind-powered corn mill in Northumberland. The supplied coordinates correspond to the Great Whittington tower mill rather than Corbridge. Specialist mill records identify it as a tower mill and corn mill, and archive references describe the surviving structure as a circular brick tower.
Photographic evidence from 1964 recorded the mill as a capless tower, confirming post-working survival but also the loss of its cap and sails by that date. The available sources establish the site identity, wind power, corn-milling function, brick tower form, and later survival as a capless structure. They do not provide a detailed construction date, ownership chronology, machinery inventory, or final working date.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Great Whittington Tower Mill stands at Great Whittington in Northumberland. The site is identified in specialist windmill gazetteers as a wind-powered tower corn mill. Its surviving fabric is described through archive material as a circular brick tower, and later photographic records show that the mill had already lost its working cap and sails by 1964.
The known evidence is therefore strongest for function and structural survival rather than for the detailed working life of the mill. It was built and used as a wind-powered corn mill, with the fixed brick tower forming the main surviving element after the working machinery and superstructure were lost or removed. No detailed sequence of owners, millers, machinery changes, or final closure date has been identified in the consulted sources.
The site survives as a recognisable former tower mill rather than as a complete working windmill.
Timeline
1964
Capless tower photographed
The surviving mill was recorded as a capless tower in 1964.
Sources and records
Mills Archive entry: Tower mill, Great Whittington
Windmill World entry: Great Whittington windmill
Mills Archive digital image record: Circular brick tower, tower mill, Great Whittington
Guy Blythman addenda: Northumberland windmill image notes
Windmill World entry: Great Whittington windmill
Mills Archive digital image record: Circular brick tower, tower mill, Great Whittington
Guy Blythman addenda: Northumberland windmill image notes