1820
Tower mill built
Sutton Mill, also known as Lindley's Mill, was built around 1820.
Site overview
Sutton Mill, also known as Lindley's Mill, is a recorded tower windmill at Sutton-in-Ashfield. Specialist windmill lists give a construction date of about 1820 and a last mention in 1895. The available records identify it as a tower mill but do not provide a detailed structural description, machinery inventory, closure account, or confirmed surviving fabric at the supplied coordinates.
The site is therefore treated as a tower-mill site rather than a surviving tower unless further local evidence is added. A separate earlier post mill at Mill Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, is recorded as having been blown down in 1818, but the supplied site character and nearby tower-mill record support Sutton Mill as the relevant identity for this row.
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History
Sutton Mill, also known as Lindley's Mill, is recorded as a tower windmill at Sutton-in-Ashfield. The supplied coordinates lie closer to the Sutton-in-Ashfield windmill area than to central Mansfield, and the available windmill records identify Sutton Mill as the relevant tower-mill site in that locality. The mill was built around 1820 and is last mentioned in 1895.
It is identified as a tower mill, but the consulted sources do not provide a detailed account of its construction materials, number of storeys, cap, sails, gearing, millstones, ownership, or millers. No secure evidence of surviving above-ground tower fabric at the supplied coordinates has been identified in the accessible sources, so the site is described as a former tower windmill site. A separate post mill on Mill Street at Sutton-in-Ashfield was blown down in 1818, but the tower-mill record for Sutton Mill better matches the supplied tower-site character.
Timeline
1895
Last mention recorded
Sutton Mill is last mentioned in 1895.
Sources and records
Windmill World listing for Sutton In Ashfield tower mill
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire
Kiddle summary of List of windmills in Nottinghamshire
Guy Blythman addenda entry for Sutton-in-Ashfield tower mill photographic references
List of windmills in Nottinghamshire
Kiddle summary of List of windmills in Nottinghamshire
Guy Blythman addenda entry for Sutton-in-Ashfield tower mill photographic references