Ravensmoor Windmill Ravensmoor · Cheshire · England

Ravensmoor Windmill stands south of Wrexham Road at Burland, between the villages of Acton and Burland and close to Ravensmoor. It is a former tower mill, built in brick as a circular tapering tower and dating from the early nineteenth century. The mill once stood on Ravensmoor Common, an area enclosed in 1838, and formed part of the rural corn-milling landscape of south Cheshire.

The mill ceased grinding corn around 1884. In 1890 it was adapted for a different wind-powered function, when a wind-pumping mechanism was installed to pump water from an adjacent artesian well for part of the Dorfold estate. That conversion gave the former tower mill a second technical life as a pumping structure. The wind-pumping mechanism was replaced in 1922 and remains in place on the roof.

The listed building description records the original roof and sails as gone, with a water-pumping mechanism installed on the roof. The tower has windows on three levels, some blocked, and has since been adapted for residential use. Ravensmoor Windmill is therefore both a former corn mill and a later wind-pumping tower, preserving an unusual sequence of wind-powered use within the Cheshire landscape.