1750–1799
Late eighteenth-century tower mill built
Swinton, Windmill was probably built as a tower mill in the late eighteenth century.
Site overview
Swinton, Windmill was a former tower mill at Swinton in Berwickshire. It was probably a late eighteenth-century tower mill and was shown on nineteenth-century mapping. The site is recorded separately from Swintonmill, another windmill site in the same parish.
Map
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History
Swinton, Windmill was a former tower windmill at Swinton in the Scottish Borders. It was probably built in the late eighteenth century and is recorded as a tower mill. The windmill was shown on nineteenth-century mapping in 1858.
It should be distinguished from Swintonmill, a separate windmill site in the same parish associated with an 1813 date. The available evidence does not establish a full machinery description, ownership sequence, working chronology, survival condition, or final working date for Swinton, Windmill.
Timeline
1858
Windmill shown on nineteenth-century mapping
Swinton, Windmill was shown on nineteenth-century mapping in 1858.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills list; Windmill World site entry; Historic Ordnance Survey mapping