1800–1830
Early nineteenth-century tower mill built
Rumbleton Law, Windmill was probably built as a tower mill in the early nineteenth century.
Site overview
Rumbleton Law, Windmill stood near Rumbleton Law in the parish of Gordon. It was a tower mill of early nineteenth-century date. The site is recorded as a windmill, but little detailed working history has been established.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Rumbleton Law, Windmill was a former tower windmill near Gordon in the Scottish Borders. The mill stood in the Rumbleton Law area and was probably built in the early nineteenth century. It appears in Scottish windmill lists as a tower mill, but the available record does not establish whether it survived as a standing tower, stump or only as a site at the time of later recording.
No detailed construction account, machinery description, ownership sequence, working chronology, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills list; Windmill World site entry