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Combined wind and water mill recorded
The Longford site is recorded as a combined wind and water mill with a tower windmill component.
Site overview
The Longford site is recorded in Shropshire windmill listings as a combined wind and water mill. Its windmill element is described as a tower mill and is placed at grid reference SJ 718 181. The accessible evidence establishes the site identity, approximate location and unusual combined character, but gives little further detail.
No construction date, ownership sequence, milling machinery, working period, closure date, demolition date, or surviving fabric description has been identified from the consulted material. The present record is therefore limited to the documented existence of a tower windmill associated with a combined wind-and-water milling site at Longford. Its inclusion in county windmill listings provides the principal basis for the historical entry.
Map
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History
Longford was the site of a combined wind and water mill in Shropshire. The windmill component is recorded as a tower mill at grid reference SJ 718 181. The phrase combined wind and water mill indicates that the milling site made use of both wind power and water power, but the accessible listing does not provide a fuller technical description of the arrangement, the watercourse, or the relative roles of the two power systems.
No dated build record, named miller, lease, sale, repair, machinery alteration, closure, or demolition evidence has been identified in the accessible material. No later reuse or statutory protection has been found. The evidential record is therefore thin but sufficient to identify the Longford site as a former tower windmill associated with a combined milling complex.
Timeline
Sources and records
Wikipedia list of windmills in Shropshire
Seaby and Smith, Windmills in Shropshire Hereford and Worcester, cited in county windmill listing
Seaby and Smith, Windmills in Shropshire Hereford and Worcester, cited in county windmill listing