1877
Union Mill depicted
Union Mill was a tower windmill at Whitby during the nineteenth century.
Site overview
Union Mill at Whitby was a tower windmill used for corn milling. The mill is represented in nineteenth-century visual material, including an 1877 painting, and appears in specialist windmill catalogues as a tower mill. The detailed construction date, machinery arrangement, final working date, and present structural condition have not been established.
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History
Union Mill was a tower windmill at Whitby and worked as a corn mill. It appears in nineteenth-century material, including an 1877 painting of the tower mill. The mill is also identified in specialist windmill catalogues under Whitby and Union Mill.
Further details of its construction, ownership, machinery, and working life have not been established. The final working date is not known, and the present survival of original mill fabric has not been confirmed.
Timeline
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Whitby windmill
Mills Archive digital image: Original painting of tower mill, 1877, Union Mill, Whitby
All Windmills entry: Union Mill, Whitby
Windmill Photographic Register
Mills Archive digital image: Original painting of tower mill, 1877, Union Mill, Whitby
All Windmills entry: Union Mill, Whitby
Windmill Photographic Register