1600–1699
Windmill site established
Glasgow, Windmillcroft is associated with a seventeenth-century windmill site on the south side of the River Clyde.
Site overview
Glasgow, Windmillcroft was a windmill site in the Tradeston area of Glasgow. The place-name preserves the former windmill association, and the site is recorded as a windmill of unassigned period. The windmill was shown on eighteenth-century mapping and was probably removed around 1800.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Glasgow, Windmillcroft was a former windmill site in the Tradeston area of Glasgow, close to the south bank of the River Clyde. The name Windmillcroft preserves the former windmill association. The site is recorded as a windmill of unassigned period and appears in Scottish windmill lists as a seventeenth-century windmill site shown on eighteenth-century mapping.
The mill had probably been demolished by about 1800 as the area became absorbed into the expanding urban and riverside industrial landscape of Glasgow. No surviving windmill structure, machinery description, ownership sequence, or precise final working date has been established.
Timeline
1788
Windmill shown on eighteenth-century mapping
The Windmillcroft windmill site was shown on eighteenth-century mapping of Glasgow.
1800
Windmill demolished
The Windmillcroft windmill had probably been demolished by about 1800.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills list; historic mapping