1827
Mill shown on map
Cluddley Mill at Wrockwardine is recorded on the 1827 map.
Site overview
Cluddley Mill is the recorded tower mill at Wrockwardine. The supplied coordinates match the Wrockwardine mill location rather than Ironbridge. Specialist windmill sources identify it as a tower mill, and archive records describe a mill north-west of Mill House at Wrockwardine.
The wider Shropshire windmill list records a Wrockwardine or Cluddley tower mill on the 1827 map. Photographic-register evidence records the capless tower in July 1937 and again in 1983, with later records describing the shell of the tower. A Historic England archive photograph was taken in 2005.
The accessible sources establish the site identity, tower-mill type, nineteenth-century mapping, capless survival, and later shell condition, but provide limited operational detail.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Cluddley Mill stands at Wrockwardine, where the supplied coordinates match the recorded tower-mill site rather than Ironbridge. The mill is identified in specialist windmill records as a tower mill at Wrockwardine, and the National Grid Reference is recorded around SJ 695 098. The Shropshire windmill list records Cluddley Mill on the 1827 map.
Photographic-register evidence records a capless tower in July 1937 and another capless-tower photograph in 1983. A separate record describes the shell of the tower. Historic England archive material from 2005 identifies the site as the mill north-west of Mill House at Wrockwardine.
The consulted sources do not provide the exact construction date, original builder, milling function, miller sequence, cap and sail arrangement, machinery, final working date, or statutory listing details beyond the archive photograph identification. The surviving evidence supports a cautious account of a former Wrockwardine tower mill whose capless shell survived into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Timeline
1937
Capless tower photographed
The capless tower of Cluddley Mill was photographed in July 1937.
1983
Capless tower recorded
The capless tower was photographed again in 1983.
2005
Mill remains photographed
The mill north-west of Mill House at Wrockwardine was photographed for the Images of England project.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Wrockwardine windmill, Shropshire
Mills Archive database entry: Cluddley Mill, Wrockwardine
Historic England Archive Images of England record: Mill North West of Mill House, Wrockwardine
Windmill Photographic Register entry for Wrockwardine, Cluddley
List of windmills in Shropshire
Mills Archive database entry: Cluddley Mill, Wrockwardine
Historic England Archive Images of England record: Mill North West of Mill House, Wrockwardine
Windmill Photographic Register entry for Wrockwardine, Cluddley
List of windmills in Shropshire