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Tower windmill recorded
Dean's Mill was recorded at Upton by Chester as a tower windmill.
Site overview
Dean's Mill was a tower windmill at Upton by Chester. The site is recorded in specialist mill sources at Mill Close and is associated with the former Old Mill House. The public record is strongest for the mill's identity, location, and survival as a former windmill site rather than as a complete working mill.
Later photographic records show the area after the loss of the working windmill, preserving the place-name and mill-site association within the local landscape.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Dean's Mill was a tower windmill at Upton by Chester. It stood in the area now associated with Mill Close and Old Mill House, where the place-name preserves the former milling use of the site.
The recorded mill type was a tower mill, placing it within the stone or brick-built windmill tradition rather than the earlier post-mill form. Its detailed working history is only lightly documented in the readily available mill records, but the site is clearly identified as one of the former Cheshire windmills recorded by national specialist sources. Later photographic material records the site after the windmill's working life had ended, with Old Mill House and the surrounding setting retaining the local memory of the mill.
Timeline
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Former mill site retained in local setting
The former windmill site is associated with Mill Close and Old Mill House.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Geograph photographic record
Mills Archive site record
Geograph photographic record