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Corn milling site
The mill worked as a wind-powered post corn mill at Fritchley.
Site overview
Fritchley Post Mill is a former wind-powered corn mill at Fritchley in Derbyshire. The mill is identified as a post mill, now surviving as a ruin. Its origins are eighteenth-century, with local mill research placing the mill before 1793.
The surviving remains stand on Lynham Road and are protected as a Grade II listed building under the name Fritchley Windmill Tower. The known history is strongest for the mill's identity, type, survival and protected status. The ruin preserves a visible remnant of Fritchley's former wind-powered corn-milling landscape.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Fritchley Post Mill was a wind-powered corn mill at Fritchley, near Crich in Derbyshire. Local mill research places the mill before 1793, making it part of the late eighteenth-century windmill landscape of the area. The mill was of post-mill type and worked for corn grinding.
The surviving structure is now a ruin rather than a complete working mill. The site is recorded by specialist mill sources as Fritchley windmill, a post corn mill in ruined condition. Historic England protects the surviving remains as Fritchley Windmill Tower, a Grade II listed building on Lynham Road. The listing confirms the survival and heritage importance of the remaining fabric even though the working body, sails, cap and machinery are no longer present as an operating mill.
Fritchley Post Mill is therefore best understood as a preserved ruin of an eighteenth-century corn windmill. Its remaining fabric keeps the site legible within the landscape above the village and marks one of the former wind-powered milling sites of Derbyshire.
Timeline
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Mill reduced to ruin
The working windmill ceased to survive as a complete mill and is now represented by ruined remains.
1793
Post mill in existence
Local mill research places the Fritchley post mill before 1793.
1985
Listed building designation
The surviving remains were listed at Grade II as Fritchley Windmill Tower.
Sources and records
Historic England listed building entry: Fritchley Windmill Tower
Planning Data listed building record: Fritchley Windmill Tower
Windmill World entry: Fritchley windmill, Derbyshire
Crich Parish local history page: Fritchley Windmill
Planning Data listed building record: Fritchley Windmill Tower
Windmill World entry: Fritchley windmill, Derbyshire
Crich Parish local history page: Fritchley Windmill