Site overview

Ockbrook Mill is a former tower corn mill at Windmill Farm, east of Ockbrook. The surviving remains are the truncated base of a brick-built windmill tower, visible as a derelict stump rather than a complete mill. The mill is recorded as a corn mill and appears in nineteenth-century windmill lists as Ockbrook Mill.

Local archaeological description places the stump at Windmill Farm and notes that the windmill is named on the Ockbrook Enclosure Award map of 1773. The mill is not shown on Burdett's earlier 1767 map, and the Ordnance Survey map of 1880 marked it as disused. A later visual record includes a watercolour of the former windmill by W. Calvert and a 1995 photograph of the base.

The site survives as a low but legible remnant of Ockbrook's wind-powered corn-milling history.

Map

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History

Ockbrook Mill stood at Windmill Farm, east of Ockbrook. It was a tower corn mill, represented today by the truncated base of a brick-built windmill tower. The site preserves a physical remnant rather than a complete mill, but the surviving stump and Windmill Farm place-name retain the mill's position within the landscape.

The earliest positive mapping reference places the windmill on the Ockbrook Enclosure Award map of 1773. It is not shown on Burdett's 1767 map, giving a narrow context for its appearance in the local landscape record. Later windmill lists identify it as Ockbrook Mill, a tower mill, with a construction date around 1770. By the time of the 1880 Ordnance Survey mapping, the mill was marked as disused.

The surviving fabric is modest. Local archaeological description records the stump at Windmill Farm, and later specialist records describe the mill as truncated and derelict. A watercolour by W. Calvert preserved the image of the former Ockbrook windmill, while a 1995 photograph recorded the remaining base. The site is therefore a tower-mill survival of archaeological and local landscape interest rather than a restored or converted building.

Timeline

1773

Windmill named on enclosure map

Ockbrook Mill was named on the Ockbrook Enclosure Award map of 1773.
1880

Mill marked as disused

The Ordnance Survey map of 1880 marked the Ockbrook windmill as disused.
1995

Windmill base photographed

The truncated base of Ockbrook Mill was photographed in 1995.

Sources and records

Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Ockbrook local archaeology article
List of windmills in Derbyshire
Picture the Past photographic record