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Site overview

Langland, Windmill was a wind-powered pumping site in Caithness. It stood about 200 yards north of an old quarry and was marked on early Ordnance Survey mapping and later editions.

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History

Langland, Windmill was a former windpump at Langland in Caithness. It stood about 200 yards north of an old quarry and appears to have been associated with quarry pumping rather than grain milling. The site was marked on the first Ordnance Survey survey and on later editions.

No secure construction date, maker, ownership sequence, detailed machinery description, survival condition, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.

Timeline

1870–1879

Langland windpump shown on Ordnance Survey mapping

Langland, Windmill was marked on early Ordnance Survey mapping and later editions as a wind-powered pumping site north of an old quarry.

Sources and records

Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory; Historic Ordnance Survey mapping; Windmill World site entry