Carsington Pasture Mill Hopton · Derbyshire · England

Carsington Pasture Mill stands on Brassington Road in the parish of Hopton. The mill is recorded in specialist mill sources as Carsington Pasture Mill, Hopton, and also appears as Hopton windmill. It was a wind-powered tower corn mill, now surviving as a ruined circular tower base on the upland pasture between Hopton, Carsington and the High Peak Trail.

The surviving structure is listed at Grade II. The listed fabric is an eighteenth-century windmill base built of coursed limestone rubble with gritstone dressings. The tower is circular and tapering, and it no longer retains its cap or machinery. The north side has a blocked doorway with a massive lintel, and the tower has square window openings with flush dressings. A gritstone capping band finishes the top of the surviving masonry.

The working chronology is only partly recorded, but the mill is listed among Derbyshire tower windmills and is associated with the Carsington Pasture landscape. The structure is also recorded in relation to historic maps and mill lists as a tower mill on Carsington Pasture. Later photographs show the tower as a derelict remnant, with modern wind turbines in the surrounding landscape creating a striking contrast between older and newer uses of wind power.

The windmill was added to the National Heritage List for England on 11 October 1983. Its present importance lies in the survival of the eighteenth-century stone tower base, the legibility of its former windmill form, and its setting within the open limestone landscape of Hopton and Carsington Pasture.