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Tower windmill recorded
Dipton Mill at Hexham is recorded as a wind-powered tower mill.
Site overview
Dipton Mill at Hexham is recorded as a wind-powered tower mill in Northumberland. The supplied coordinates correspond to the Hexham tower mill site rather than Haydon Bridge. Specialist windmill gazetteers identify the site as Hexham, Dipton Mill, with tower-mill form and wind power.
A local mill history study of Hexham's two lost windmills places the site within the wider history of wind milling around Hexham. The available evidence confirms the site identity, tower-mill type, and wind-powered milling function, but the consulted sources do not provide a surviving structure description comparable with the better-documented listed Northumberland mill towers. No construction date, final working date, ownership sequence, or machinery inventory has been identified.
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
Dipton Mill is one of the recorded windmill sites associated with Hexham. The site is identified in windmill gazetteers as a tower mill and is listed as Hexham, Dipton Mill. The coordinate position places it near Hexham rather than at Haydon Bridge.
The mill formed part of the wind-powered corn-milling landscape of Northumberland, but the surviving published evidence is limited. A local study of Hexham's lost windmills treats the site as one of two former windmills of Hexham, while specialist mill catalogues preserve the identification and location. The sources establish that it was a tower mill powered by wind, but they do not give a full documentary sequence for its construction, working life, closure, or later treatment.
No detailed description of surviving machinery or standing fabric has been identified in the consulted sources.
Timeline
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Lost Hexham windmill identified
The site is treated in local mill history as one of Hexham's lost windmills.
Sources and records
Windmill World Northumberland windmills gazetteer
List of windmills in the United Kingdom: Northumberland
North East Mills article: Hexham's Two Windmills
Mills Archive catalogue references for Hexham windmill material
List of windmills in the United Kingdom: Northumberland
North East Mills article: Hexham's Two Windmills
Mills Archive catalogue references for Hexham windmill material