1805
Yapham Mill built
Yapham Mill was built as a tower windmill.
Site overview
Yapham Mill is a former tower windmill at Yapham, about two miles north-east of Pocklington. It was built in 1805 and worked as a wind-powered mill. The tower was capless by 1935.
Specialist catalogue material identifies it as a tower mill, and an April 1933 drawing records the structure as Yapham tower mill. The later working history and present condition are not fully established.
Map
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History
Yapham Mill was built in 1805 at Yapham, north-east of Pocklington. It was a tower windmill and formed part of the milling landscape around the village. The mill was drawn by Karl Wood on 14 April 1933 as a tower mill standing two and a half miles north-west of Pocklington.
By June 1935 it was capless. The former mill is identified in later windmill catalogues as Yapham Mill. Further information on its machinery, ownership, and final working date has not been established.
Timeline
1933
Tower mill drawing
The tower mill stood at Yapham in 1933.
1935
Capless tower
The former tower mill was capless by 1935.
Sources and records
Mills Archive catalogue entry: Yapham Mill, Yapham
Archives Hub entry: Yapham tower mill drawing
Windmill World entry: Yapham windmill
Windmill Photographic Register
List of windmills in North Yorkshire
Archives Hub entry: Yapham tower mill drawing
Windmill World entry: Yapham windmill
Windmill Photographic Register
List of windmills in North Yorkshire