1700–1799
Tower mill built
The stone tower mill at Much Wenlock was built in the eighteenth century.
Site overview
Much Wenlock Windmill is the old tower corn mill west of Shadwell Rock Quarry at Much Wenlock. It is an eighteenth-century stone rubble tower mill, recorded as a four-storey tapering circular tower. The surviving structure is ruinous, with a damaged battlemented parapet and no interior features.
It is also described as a prominent landmark. Specialist windmill records identify the site as a tower corn mill and describe it as derelict, with conservation proposals noted in the early 2000s. The building was first listed as Grade II on 9 March 1970.
Later records include photographs from 2002 and 2008. The available evidence establishes the tower's date, form, corn-milling function, ruinous condition, and listed status, but not the original builder, machinery, ownership, or final working date.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Much Wenlock Windmill stands west of Shadwell Rock Quarry at Much Wenlock. The supplied coordinates match this listed windmill, not Broseley. The mill was built in the eighteenth century as a tower corn mill.
The surviving structure is a four-storey tapering circular tower of stone rubble. It has a damaged battlemented parapet and is recorded as ruinous, with no interior features remaining. Its position gives it prominence in the local landscape.
The mill was first listed as Grade II on 9 March 1970 under the name The Old Windmill to West of Shadwell Rock Quarry. Specialist windmill sources identify it as Much Wenlock windmill and record its function as a corn mill. Later photographic records from the early twenty-first century show the ruined tower and document its continuing survival.
Conservation plans were noted in specialist windmill records in the early 2000s. The consulted sources do not identify the miller sequence, ownership, cap and sail arrangement, detailed machinery, or final date of working.
Timeline
1970
Listed building status recorded
The Old Windmill west of Shadwell Rock Quarry was first listed as a Grade II listed building.
2002
Ruinous tower photographed
The surviving listed windmill tower was photographed for the Images of England project.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List for England entry: The Old Windmill to West of Shadwell Rock Quarry
Mills Archive database entry: Tower mill, Much Wenlock
Windmill World entry: Much Wenlock windmill, Shropshire
Geograph photographic records for Much Wenlock Windmill
List of windmills in Shropshire
Mills Archive database entry: Tower mill, Much Wenlock
Windmill World entry: Much Wenlock windmill, Shropshire
Geograph photographic records for Much Wenlock Windmill
List of windmills in Shropshire