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Tower corn mill recorded
Brockley windmill is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Brockley windmill is recorded among surviving Somerset windmills as a ruined tower mill. Specialist windmill records identify the site as a former corn mill and place it at Brockley, with the Mills Archive entry indexed as Tower mill, Cleeve. The available evidence confirms the site's location, type, function and ruined condition.
It does not provide a dated construction history, named ownership or tenancy sequence, machinery description, working-period chronology, closure date, or later conservation history. The site therefore has a thin but positive documentary record: it was a wind-powered tower corn mill and survives as a ruin rather than as a complete mill or converted building.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Brockley windmill was a tower windmill in Somerset. It is recorded in specialist windmill sources as a corn mill and is listed among surviving Somerset windmills in ruined condition. The associated Mills Archive entry identifies the site as Tower mill, Cleeve, linking the Brockley record with the wider local area.
No accessible source found in this research gives a construction date, early map reference, named miller, owner, equipment inventory, cap or sail description, millstone arrangement, working date range, closure date, demolition episode, statutory listing, or public-access role. The historical record is therefore limited but clear enough to identify the site as a former tower corn mill whose present character is a ruin.
Timeline
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Ruin recorded
The former tower mill is recorded among surviving Somerset windmills in ruined condition.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry for Brockley windmill
Mills Archive database entry for Tower mill, Cleeve
Windmill World Somerset windmills gazetteer
Mills Archive database entry for Tower mill, Cleeve
Windmill World Somerset windmills gazetteer