Melin Manaw Bodffordd · Isle of Anglesey · Wales

Melin Manaw stands near Bodffordd, close to the Tre-Iorwerth estate. The site is now a fragmentary windmill survival, with little remaining beyond a semi-circle of precariously balanced stones beside a ruined building.

The construction of the mill is unusually documented by an underlease of 1830. That document states that Manaw windmill had been built two years earlier by John Hughes, Hugh Hughes, and William Hughes, millwrights from Cefn Coch mill, on land farmed by John Hughes. The mill therefore belongs to the later phase of Anglesey windmill construction, when a number of tower windmills were still being added to the island's rural milling landscape.

The mill was in operation by the 1840s. The 1840 tithe apportionment recorded the mill and surrounding land as owned by John Griffith and occupied by Richard Williams, who ran it until 1851. In that year the mill was mentioned in the will of Edward Jones, who bequeathed it to his grandson William Jones. William Jones appeared in the 1861 census as the miller and later went on to run Mona Mill and Melin Adda in Amlwch.

After 1861 the mill disappears from the immediate local census record, and the lack of later miller entries suggests that it may have been abandoned during the 1860s. When the surrounding farm came up for sale in 1919, the mill was not mentioned, indicating that by then it was disused and of little economic significance. A 1936 photograph from the Muggeridge collection showed the tower still intact but capless, under the erroneous name Tre-Lowerth, a misspelling of Tre-Iorwerth. The site is now a ruin and one of the more fragmentary survivals in the Anglesey windmill record.