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Corn milling use
Hail Mill operated as a wind-powered tower corn mill.
Site overview
Hail Mill is a former tower corn mill at Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century and is identified as a wind-powered tower mill. The surviving structure marks one of Howden's historic windmill sites.
Details of its machinery, working chronology, closure and later alteration remain uncertain.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Hail Mill was built at Howden as a tower corn mill in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. It formed part of the wind-powered milling landscape around Howden, where other industrial and milling sites also existed.
The mill later ceased working and survived as a former tower mill. Its original height, cap, sail arrangement, windshaft, millstones and final working date remain uncertain. The site survives as the former Hail Mill tower corn mill at Howden.
Timeline
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Former tower mill survives
The former tower mill survives at Howden.
1775–1825
Tower mill built
Hail Mill was built as a tower corn mill in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Howden windmill
List of windmills in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Mills Archive catalogue references for East Riding windmills
List of windmills in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Mills Archive catalogue references for East Riding windmills