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Tower survives
The former tower mill survived after milling ceased.
Site overview
Hornsea Mill is a former wind-powered tower corn mill at Hornsea. It was built in 1820 and remained in use until 1921. Hornsea had earlier windmills, including East Mill, West Mill, Beck Mill and Atwick Road Mill, but this surviving tower mill belongs to the nineteenth-century phase of the town's wind-powered milling.
Details of the surviving tower's machinery and later alteration history remain uncertain.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Hornsea Mill was built in 1820 as a tower corn mill. It formed part of a longer local milling history at Hornsea, where earlier windmills had been present from at least the sixteenth century. The surviving nineteenth-century tower mill worked by wind power for corn milling.
The mill remained in use until 1921. After working ceased, the tower survived as the physical remnant of the former milling site. Details of the cap, sails, windshaft, stones and post-closure alteration have not been fully established. Hornsea Mill remains a surviving former tower mill in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Timeline
1820
Tower mill built
Hornsea Mill was built as a tower corn mill.
1820–1921
Corn milling period
The tower mill worked as a wind-powered corn mill until 1921.
Sources and records
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Hornsea Mill
Windmill World entry: Hornsea windmill
List of windmills in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Windmill photographic register
Windmill World entry: Hornsea windmill
List of windmills in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Windmill photographic register