1770–1799
Tower mill built
Hadley Park Windmill was built in the late eighteenth century as a red-brick tower corn mill.
Site overview
Hadley Park Windmill is a surviving tower corn mill on Hadley Park Lane, Hadley and Leegomery. It was built in the late eighteenth century and later converted to a watermill in the nineteenth century, reusing the tower mill structure. The surviving building is a red-brick tapered circular tower.
Its cap was replaced by a crenellated parapet in the late nineteenth century. Some machinery of both wind and water power remains inside. Specialist mill records identify it as a combined wind- and water-powered corn mill, and the statutory listing records it as Grade II, first listed on 8 April 1983.
Modern photographic records show the tower surviving in the early twenty-first century. The available evidence establishes an unusually clear change from windmill to combined or water-powered use.
Map
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History
Hadley Park Windmill stands on Hadley Park Lane in the parish of Hadley and Leegomery. The supplied coordinates match the listed Hadley Park Windmill rather than a general Telford town-centre location. The mill originated as a late eighteenth-century tower corn mill.
It was later converted to a watermill in the nineteenth century, using the existing tower-mill structure. The surviving tower is red brick, tapered, and circular. The original cap was replaced in about the late nineteenth century by a crenellated parapet, giving the former mill a castle-like appearance.
The listing description records that some machinery of both wind and water power remains inside, confirming that the building preserves evidence of both phases of power use. The mill was first listed as Grade II on 8 April 1983. Specialist records identify the site as a combined mill and tower mill with corn-milling function.
Historic map evidence from the 1882 Ordnance Survey is also referenced in the mill record. Later photographs from 2005 and 2007 record the continued survival of the listed structure.
Timeline
1800–1899
Converted to watermill
The tower windmill was converted to a watermill in the nineteenth century, reusing the tower structure.
1870–1899
Crenellated parapet added
The mill cap was replaced by a crenellated parapet in about the late nineteenth century.
1983
Listed building status recorded
Hadley Park Windmill was first listed as a Grade II listed building.
2005
Listed windmill photographed
The surviving listed windmill was photographed for the Images of England project.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List for England entry: Hadley Park Windmill
Mills Archive database entry: Hadley Park Windmill, Hadley and Leegomery
Windmill World entry: Hadley Park, Telford
Ordnance Survey 25 inch map, Shropshire XXXVI.6, 1882
Historic England Archive Images of England record: Hadley Park Windmill
Mills Archive database entry: Hadley Park Windmill, Hadley and Leegomery
Windmill World entry: Hadley Park, Telford
Ordnance Survey 25 inch map, Shropshire XXXVI.6, 1882
Historic England Archive Images of England record: Hadley Park Windmill