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Site overview

Tower mill, Lundy Island is a former tower corn mill site on Lundy in the Bristol Channel. Specialist mill records identify the site as a tower mill used for corn milling, now very ruinous. The recorded position lies on the island rather than the mainland coast, and the survival is site-only or ruinous rather than a standing complete mill.

The windmill forms part of Lundy's small-scale historic working landscape, where isolated island settlement required local grain-processing capacity. The surviving record is limited, but it establishes a former wind-powered corn mill represented by very ruinous remains on the island.

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History

Tower mill, Lundy Island is recorded as a former tower corn mill. The site lies on Lundy in the Bristol Channel, where a wind-powered mill would have served an island landscape separated from mainland milling facilities.

The surviving record identifies the mill as a tower mill with a corn-milling function. Its present condition is described as very ruinous, indicating that the site is now represented by fragmentary remains rather than a complete tower with cap, sails, or machinery. The mill is included among the surviving Devon windmill sites, but its location and condition place it closer to an archaeological or ruinous site survival than to a restored or converted building.

The site is therefore a sparse but significant record of wind-powered milling on Lundy Island. Its value lies in marking the presence of a former corn mill within the island's historic working landscape, even though the visible survival has been reduced to very ruinous remains.

Timeline

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Corn milling function recorded

The Lundy Island tower mill is recorded as a wind-powered corn mill.
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Very ruinous survival recorded

The former tower mill on Lundy Island is recorded as very ruinous.

Sources and records

Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Lundy Island windmill reference