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Combined corn mill recorded
The site is recorded as a combined wind and water corn mill built on top of a watermill.
Site overview
The Wardington mill site is recorded as a combined wind and water corn mill on the River Cherwell. The supplied coordinates identify Wardington rather than Banbury. Specialist mill records describe the site as a combined mill built on top of a watermill, with a corn-milling function.
By the 1980s it had been converted to domestic use, with some milling gear retained on site. The available evidence establishes the unusual combined wind-and-water character, its corn-milling function, riverside location, and later domestic conversion. It does not provide a detailed construction date, ownership chronology, machinery sequence, or exact final working date.
Map
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History
The Wardington mill site was an unusual combined wind and water mill. It stood on the Cherwell and is recorded as a corn mill built on top of a watermill. This arrangement combined two sources of power at one site rather than placing a windmill and watermill as separate working buildings. Specialist windmill records identify it as Combined mill, Wardington.
By the 1980s the mill had been converted to domestic use. Some milling gear was still retained on site at that time, preserving part of the former working character after conversion. The available sources are strongest for the identification, function, combined form, and later reuse of the site. No detailed construction date, named owner sequence, technical inventory, or precise closure date has been identified in the consulted sources.
Timeline
1980–1989
Domestic conversion recorded
By the 1980s the former mill had been converted to domestic use, with some milling gear retained on site.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Wardington windmill
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Combined mill, Wardington
Windmills of Oxfordshire gazetteer
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Combined mill, Wardington
Windmills of Oxfordshire gazetteer