Site overview
Warsop Windmill stands on Forest Road at Warsop and is also known as Forest Mill or Bradmer Mill. It was built in the early nineteenth century, with other local history material giving 1825, and was raised in the mid nineteenth century. The tower was originally stone-built and later heightened in brick.
It had four sails; two were blown down in a gale in 1910, after which it worked for a short time on the remaining two. By the 1920s it had lost all sails and its cap. The surviving structure is a roofless battered round tower of coursed squared rubble and brick, with metal casement windows and no significant internal remains.
It is listed at Grade II.
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History
Warsop Windmill stands on Forest Road at Warsop. It was first known as Forest Mill and later also as Bradmer Mill. The tower was erected in the early nineteenth century, with local history material giving 1825 as the date, and was raised higher in the mid nineteenth century. The lower structure was of coursed squared rubble, with the later heightening in brick. It worked as a tower corn mill and had four sails. In 1910 two of the sails were blown down in a gale, after which the mill was worked for a short time using the two remaining sails. By the 1920s the mill had lost all its sails and its cap.
The listed structure is now roofless. It is a battered round tower of three stages, with metal casement windows. The first stage has a close-boarded door to the south-east with a concrete hood, an opposite former door replaced by a casement, and two other casements. The second stage has four casements, while the third has a blocked window and two single casements. The interior retains no significant remains. The windmill was later associated with local refreshment use near Forest Road, and it remains a Grade II listed landmark.
Timeline
Stone tower mill built
Tower raised
Two sails blown down
Sails and cap lost
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Warsop windmill
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Forest Mill, Bradmer Hill, Warsop
Edwinstowe Historical Society page: Wind and Water Mills
Warsop local history summary