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Tower corn mill recorded
Watchfield Mill is recorded at Burnham Without as a tower mill used for corn milling.
Site overview
Watchfield Mill is a former tower corn mill at Burnham Without, Somerset. Specialist windmill records place it at the supplied location and identify it as a tower mill used for corn milling. The Somerset windmills gazetteer lists it among surviving mills, while a 1940 image record describes the former tower mill being used as a store after the sails had been removed.
The accessible evidence confirms the site's identity, function, location and post-working survival, but gives no construction date, named millers, machinery details, working-period chronology, final closure date, or statutory designation. Its documented history is therefore centred on a former tower corn mill that remained in use as a store after milling had ceased.
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History
Watchfield Mill was a wind-powered tower corn mill at Burnham Without in Somerset. Specialist windmill records identify the site and its corn-milling function, and the Somerset windmills gazetteer includes Watchfield Mill among surviving mills.
By 1940 the mill had clearly ceased to operate as a complete windmill. A photographic record described the former tower mill at Watchfield being used as a store, with the sails removed and building materials stacked against the wall. Later records continue to identify the site as a surviving tower mill. No accessible material found in this research gives the date of construction, the millwright, ownership or tenancy history, cap and sail arrangement, internal machinery, named millers, working period, final closure date, or any later formal heritage designation. The positive record supports its identification as a surviving former tower corn mill with documented post-working storage use.
Timeline
1940
Former mill used as store
A 1940 image record described the former tower mill being used as a store after its sails had been removed.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry for Watchfield Mill, Burnham Without
Mills Archive database entry for Watchfield Mill, Burnham Without
Windmill World Somerset windmills gazetteer
Topfoto image record of former tower mill at Watchfield, 1940
Mills Archive database entry for Watchfield Mill, Burnham Without
Windmill World Somerset windmills gazetteer
Topfoto image record of former tower mill at Watchfield, 1940