1813
Swintonmill windmill recorded
Swintonmill is associated with an 1813 windmill record and may once have powered a threshing machine.
Site overview
Swintonmill was a former tower windmill in the parish of Swinton. It is recorded as a windmill site and is also associated with a farmhouse and mill-place name. The windmill may once have powered a threshing machine.
Map
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History
Swintonmill was a former tower windmill near Swinton in the Scottish Borders. It should be distinguished from the separate Swinton, Windmill site further east. Swintonmill is recorded as a windmill site under the alternative name Swinton Mill, and the associated farmhouse record notes that the place included a windmill which may once have powered a threshing machine.
The windmill is associated with an 1813 date in Scottish windmill lists. No detailed machinery description, ownership sequence, survival condition, 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