Melin Mechell Mynydd Mechell · Isle of Anglesey · Wales

Melin Mechell stands at Mynydd Mechell and is also known as Melin Minffordd and Melin Maen Arthur, the latter name referring to a nearby hill. The windmill formed part of the Tynllidiart farm holding, which also included a nearby watermill.

The origin of the mill is not firmly recorded, but it appears in the historic record in the 1840s. At that time John Parry was running Tynllidiart, while his son Robert was living nearby at Tyddyn Fadog and gave his occupation in the 1841 census as miller. After John Parry died in 1859, Robert Parry moved into Tynllidiart and employed Robert Thomas from Holyhead as his miller. Robert Thomas remained a long-serving employee, living at Tynllidiart and working the mill until the 1890s.

The Parry family continued the milling and farming connection into the later nineteenth century. Two of Robert Parry's sons moved to Liverpool to work as joiners near the docks, but his youngest son Morgan returned to Anglesey when Robert retired around 1890 and took over the farm and mill. Robert Parry died in 1904 and Morgan died in 1908. Morgan's widow Elizabeth continued living at the mill until at least 1911, running the farm, and the mill probably closed around this period.

By the time Rex Wailes surveyed mills in England and Wales in 1929, Melin Mechell had lost its cap, although machinery and one sail still remained. In the 1970s it was converted into a dwelling. When the property was sold in 1982, the new owners found some of the old machinery, which was donated to the restoration of Melin Llynon. The former windmill now survives as a converted private dwelling and a visible reminder of the wind-powered milling history of Mynydd Mechell.