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Tower corn mill recorded
Woodhorn Tower Mill is recorded as a wind-powered corn mill.
Site overview
Woodhorn Tower Mill is a former wind-powered corn mill at Lynemouth, Northumberland. The supplied coordinates correspond to the Woodhorn mill site rather than the centre of Blyth. Specialist mill records identify it as Woodhorn Tower Mill and record its function as a wind-powered corn mill.
Regional visitor material describes it as a sail-less nineteenth-century windmill in Lynemouth. Archive material includes a 1929 windmill survey record for Woodhorn Tower Mill. The available sources confirm the site identity, tower-mill form, corn-milling function, nineteenth-century character, and survival without sails.
They do not provide a full construction date, working ownership sequence, machinery inventory, or final milling date.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Woodhorn Tower Mill stands at Lynemouth and is recorded in specialist mill gazetteers as a wind-powered tower corn mill. The site has also been described in regional material as a sail-less nineteenth-century windmill. Archive records include a 1929 windmill survey reference for Woodhorn Tower Mill, showing that the site had already entered specialist recording by the early twentieth century.
The known evidence establishes that it was built and used as a tower corn mill and that its surviving form is a sail-less tower rather than a complete working windmill. No detailed construction date, named miller sequence, machinery description, or final closure date has been identified in the consulted sources. The tower remains the principal visible survival of the former mill.
Timeline
1800–1899
Nineteenth-century tower mill recorded
The mill is described as a nineteenth-century windmill at Lynemouth.
1929
Windmill survey record created
A 1929 windmill survey record was created for Woodhorn Tower Mill.
Sources and records
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Woodhorn Tower Mill
Windmill World Northumberland windmills gazetteer
Fabulous North windmills listing: Woodhorn Mill
Archives Hub record: Woodhorn Tower Mill, Northumberland 1929 windmill survey
Windmill World Northumberland windmills gazetteer
Fabulous North windmills listing: Woodhorn Mill
Archives Hub record: Woodhorn Tower Mill, Northumberland 1929 windmill survey