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New Mill at Seaton Ross was a tower windmill used for corn milling. It was built in the early nineteenth century by Thomas Rook, and his son Robert Rook later worked the mill for many years. The mill had four sails and formed one of several windmills associated with Seaton Ross.

It was later converted to residential use, and the former mill building survives as an adapted structure.

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History

New Mill was one of the windmills at Seaton Ross. It was a wind-powered corn tower mill, built in the early nineteenth century by Thomas Rook. Robert Rook, his son, occupied and worked the mill for many years and was associated with it as a farmer and yeoman.

The mill had four sails. By the late nineteenth century, the New Mill was still part of the village's milling landscape, with Albert Stephen Walker recorded as miller and thrashing machine proprietor at New Mill in 1892. The later working and closure dates have not been established.

The tower was subsequently converted to residential use and survives as an adapted former mill building.

Timeline

1800–1839

New Mill built

New Mill was built in the early nineteenth century by Thomas Rook.
1800–1899

Rook family operation

Robert Rook occupied and worked the four-sailed mill for many years.
1892

Late nineteenth-century miller

Albert Stephen Walker was associated with New Mill as a miller and thrashing machine proprietor.
2009

Residential conversion

The former mill had been rebuilt or adapted and converted for residential use.

Sources and records

Windmill World entry: Seaton Ross New Mill
Seaton Ross History entry: The New Mill
Pocklington History entry: Bulmer's 1892 directory extract
Mills Archive catalogue entry: New Mill, Seaton Ross