1800–1825
Probable early nineteenth-century windmill
Bankhead Windmill was probably built in the early nineteenth century.
Site overview
Bankhead Windmill was a former windmill at Bankhead in Angus. Specialist windmill records place the site at NO483467. Donnachie and Stewart describe the remains as a circular windmill tower incorporated into a threshing mill, with the windmill probably dating from the early nineteenth century.
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History
Bankhead Windmill was a former windmill at Bankhead in Angus. The coordinate-matched site is recorded by Windmill World at NO483467. Donnachie and Stewart describe the remains of a circular windmill tower incorporated into a threshing mill at Bankhead, about three miles south-east of Forfar.
They note that the windmill had been much altered and that the whole building was then in poor condition. The windmill was probably of early nineteenth-century date. No detailed working chronology, ownership sequence, machinery description, or closure date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
1967
Windmill remains recorded
Donnachie and Stewart recorded the remains of a circular windmill tower incorporated into a threshing mill at Bankhead.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory