1947
Derelict post mill photographed
Historic photographs recorded the derelict post mill, including the windshaft, crown tree, post, and quarterbar.
Site overview
West Mill at Kimberley is recorded as a surviving post-mill ruin. Specialist windmill records place the mill at the supplied coordinates and identify it as a post mill at Kimberley, not Ilkeston. The site is associated with corn milling, and archive records include photographs of the derelict mill taken in May 1947.
Those photographs recorded the derelict post mill, the windshaft on the ground, the crown tree and post, and the crown tree with a quarterbar. The available evidence is concentrated on identification and surviving remains rather than a full operational chronology. No construction date, final working date, ownership sequence, or listing status has been identified in the consulted sources.
The site is therefore best described as the ruined remains of a Kimberley post mill with documented structural fragments.
Map
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History
West Mill is a post windmill site at Kimberley. The supplied coordinates correspond to Kimberley and to the specialist windmill record for West Mill, not to Ilkeston. The mill is identified as a post-mill ruin.
Its function was corn milling. The available documentary evidence is strongest for the condition of the site in the mid twentieth century. Historic photographs taken in May 1947 recorded the derelict mill and several structural details, including the windshaft on the ground, the crown tree and post, and the crown tree with a quarterbar.
These details show that identifiable post-mill fabric survived after the working life of the mill had ended. The consulted sources do not provide a confirmed building date, miller sequence, ownership history, technical alteration record, final closure date, or later conservation history. No statutory listing has been identified for the ruin in the records consulted.
The positive evidence supports a cautious account of a corn post mill at Kimberley surviving as ruinous structural remains.
Timeline
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Kimberley windmill, Nottinghamshire
Mills Archive database entry: Kimberley windmill
Historic England Archive photographic records for Kimberley Windmill
Picture the Past photographic record for Kimberley Windmill
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire
Mills Archive database entry: Kimberley windmill
Historic England Archive photographic records for Kimberley Windmill
Picture the Past photographic record for Kimberley Windmill
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire