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Cap and machinery lost
The rails, cap, and machinery are missing, while the millstones remain.
Site overview
Howle Mill at Chetwynd is a small sandstone tower windmill about 400 yards south-south-west of Howle Manor House. The coordinates match the Chetwynd site rather than Market Drayton. The mill is listed Grade II and is recorded as early nineteenth century.
Its surviving form is a slender circular tower of sandstone ashlar with slightly battered walls, a plain ground-floor doorway, and small square openings on each of its three storeys. The rails, cap, and machinery are missing, but the millstones remain, along with a stone cantilevered stair to the first floor. Windmill records identify it as Howle Mill, Chetwynd.
The consulted sources do not provide a full working chronology, commodity beyond the windmill function, ownership sequence, or final closure date.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Howle Mill is a tower windmill at Chetwynd, Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire. The supplied coordinates correspond to Chetwynd and the listed site south-south-west of Howle Manor House, not Market Drayton. The windmill is dated in the listing to around the early nineteenth century.
It is described as a small sandstone ashlar windmill with a slender circular tower and slightly battered walls. The tower has a plain doorway on the ground floor and small square window openings on each of its three storeys. By the time of listing the rails, cap, and machinery were missing.
The millstones remained, as did a stone cantilevered stair to the first floor. The site was listed Grade II on 8 April 1983. Specialist windmill records identify the same site as Howle Mill, Chetwynd.
The sources establish the surviving structure and listed status clearly, but they do not give a detailed operating history, ownership chronology, or dated final closure.
Timeline
1800–1833
Early nineteenth-century windmill built
The Chetwynd windmill is dated to around the early nineteenth century.
1983
Grade II listing
The windmill south-south-west of Howle Manor House was listed Grade II.
Sources and records
Historic England listing: Windmill About 400 Yards South South West of Howle Manor House, Chetwynd
Windmill World entry: Chetwynd windmill, Shropshire
Mills Archive record: Howle Mill, Chetwynd
Windmill World entry: Chetwynd windmill, Shropshire
Mills Archive record: Howle Mill, Chetwynd