1759
Tower windmill built
Belford Road Windmill is associated with a 1759 construction or first-recorded date.
Site overview
Belford Road Windmill is a former tower mill at Belford Road, Edinburgh. It is recorded as an eighteenth-century tower windmill and was listed at Category B on 15 June 1975.
Map
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History
Belford Road Windmill is a former tower windmill in Edinburgh. The site is recorded as an eighteenth-century windmill and is associated with the Belford Road area west of the city centre. Scottish windmill lists associate the mill with a 1759 date and with nineteenth-century mapping.
The surviving windmill structure was listed at Category B on 15 June 1975. No detailed working chronology, machinery description, ownership sequence, later use history, or final windmill operating date has been established.
Timeline
1852
Windmill shown on nineteenth-century mapping
Belford Road Windmill was shown on nineteenth-century mapping.
1975
Listed building designation
Belford Road Windmill was listed at Category B on 15 June 1975.
Sources and records
Historic Environment Scotland listed building record; Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills list; historic mapping