1809
Asterley mill recorded
The Asterley tower mill is associated with an 1809 record in Shropshire windmill listings.
Site overview
Asterley Mill is a tower corn mill at Pontesbury in Shropshire. It is recorded in county windmill listings under Asterley and Westbury Road, with map evidence from 1827 and 1833 and an earlier recorded date of 1809. Specialist windmill records identify it as a corn mill and describe it as visually complete.
Photographs from the early twenty-first century show the tower standing as a recognisable windmill structure. The accessible evidence supports the mill's identity, location, type, function and survival, but does not provide a full working history, named millers, machinery specification, closure date, or later restoration sequence. The site remains a standing example of a Shropshire tower mill.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Asterley Mill is a former tower windmill at Pontesbury, Shropshire. County windmill records identify it as the Asterley or Westbury Road mill and place it at grid reference SJ 373 075. The mill is associated with an 1809 date and appears on map sources from 1827 and 1833. Specialist windmill records describe it as a tower corn mill and note that it is visually complete.
The consulted material does not give a detailed account of construction, millwrights, cap, sails, windshaft, millstones, millers, ownership, working period, or final cessation. Later photographs record the standing tower in the 2000s, confirming its survival as a visible windmill structure. Its documented history is therefore clearest for identity, location, early nineteenth-century record, corn-milling function and present survival.
Timeline
1827–1833
Mill shown on map sources
The Asterley or Westbury Road tower mill appears in map sources from 1827 and 1833.
2000
Standing windmill photographed
A photograph recorded the standing windmill at Asterley in 2000.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry for Asterley, Pontesbury
Mills Archive database entry for Asterley Mill, Pontesbury
Wikipedia list of windmills in Shropshire
Geograph windmills gazetteer
Mills Archive database entry for Asterley Mill, Pontesbury
Wikipedia list of windmills in Shropshire
Geograph windmills gazetteer