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Corn milling function recorded
Cotonwood windmill is recorded as a tower corn mill.
Site overview
Cotonwood windmill is a tower corn mill at Cotonwood, near Wem, Shropshire. The coordinates match the Cotonwood windmill location rather than Whitchurch. Specialist windmill records identify the site as Coton Mill, Cotonwood, and record its function as a corn mill.
A county windmill list records Cotonwood Mill near Wem as a tower mill built in 1813. Later photographic records identify the standing structure as Cotonwood Windmill, Wem, and describe it as a disused windmill. The available sources provide basic identification, location, function, and survival, but little detail on ownership, machinery, working life, or closure.
The present record therefore focuses on the surviving tower-mill identity and its documented corn-milling function.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Cotonwood windmill stands at Cotonwood near Wem, Shropshire. The supplied coordinates correspond to the Cotonwood windmill site, not Whitchurch. Windmill records identify it as a tower mill and as Coton Mill, Cotonwood.
Its recorded function was corn milling. A county list of Shropshire windmills records Cotonwood Mill near Wem as a tower mill built in 1813. Later photographic records identify the structure as Cotonwood Windmill, Wem, and describe it as disused.
The source record for this site is thin: no detailed machinery inventory, ownership sequence, or final working date was identified in the consulted sources. The main evidenced facts are that the site is a tower windmill at Cotonwood, that it functioned as a corn mill, that it is associated with Wem rather than Whitchurch, and that a disused standing windmill structure has been photographed there.
Timeline
1813
Cotonwood Mill built
Cotonwood Mill near Wem is recorded as a tower mill built in 1813.
2014
Disused windmill photographed
The standing Cotonwood windmill was photographed and described as a disused windmill.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Cotonwood windmill, Shropshire
Mills Archive record: Coton Mill, Cotonwood
List of windmills in Shropshire
Geograph image record: Cotonwood Windmill, Wem, Shropshire
Mills Archive record: Coton Mill, Cotonwood
List of windmills in Shropshire
Geograph image record: Cotonwood Windmill, Wem, Shropshire