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Tower corn mill recorded
Shotton Farm Mill is recorded at Harmer Hill as a tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Shotton Farm Mill was a wind-powered tower corn mill at Harmer Hill in Shropshire. The site is identified in specialist windmill records at the supplied location and is associated with Shotton Farm. The available evidence is limited, but it establishes the mill as a tower mill used for corn milling.
No detailed construction date, working chronology, machinery description, or closure date has been identified from the accessible material. The record is therefore strongest for identification, location, mill type and function rather than for lifecycle detail. The site is also included in county windmill listings for Shropshire, where Harmer Hill is recorded with Shotton Farm Mill at grid reference SJ 496 216.
No surviving tower fabric or protected-building status was identified in the consulted material.
Map
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History
Shotton Farm Mill was a tower windmill at Harmer Hill, Shropshire. The mill is recorded as a tower mill and its function is given as corn milling. Its position is fixed by specialist windmill records at Harmer Hill and by the county windmill listing, which places Shotton Farm Mill at SJ 496 216.
The accessible sources do not provide a dated construction account, ownership sequence, named millers, machinery specification, sail arrangement, or final working date. They also do not identify later preservation, statutory listing, or public access. The positive evidence supports a concise record of the site as a former wind-powered corn mill rather than a detailed operational history. Its present record is therefore principally that of a located tower-mill site associated with Shotton Farm and Harmer Hill.
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Sources and records
Windmill World entry for Harmer Hill windmill
Mills Archive database entry for Shotton Farm Mill, Harmer Hill
Wikipedia list of windmills in Shropshire
Geograph windmills gazetteer
Mills Archive database entry for Shotton Farm Mill, Harmer Hill
Wikipedia list of windmills in Shropshire
Geograph windmills gazetteer