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Site overview

Thorpe Moor Mill is a former tower corn mill at Easington. Specialist mill records identify the site as an Easington tower mill and link it with Thorpe Moor Mill. The recorded function was corn milling.

The surviving record places the site within the group of windmills around Easington, where several corn mills were known, including Easington, Jackson's Mills, and Thorpe Moor. The supplied survival category indicates a site-only record rather than a standing tower, and the positive documentary record is strongest for the site identity, tower-mill type, corn-milling function, and location in the Easington landscape.

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History

Thorpe Moor Mill was one of the recorded windmills in the Easington area of County Durham. It is identified in specialist mill records as an Easington tower mill and in the Mills Archive as Thorpe Moor Mill, Easington. Its recorded function was corn milling.

The mill formed part of a local group of Easington windmills. North East Mills lists Easington, Jackson's Mills, and Thorpe Moor among the known windmills in the area, with corn milling recorded for the Thorpe Moor site. The windmill therefore belonged to the agricultural milling landscape of the east Durham plateau.

The surviving public record is limited, but it establishes a former wind-powered tower corn mill at Thorpe Moor. The site is now best treated as a site-only or very reduced survival rather than a complete standing windmill. Its significance lies in preserving the location of one of Easington's former wind-powered corn mills.

Timeline

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Corn milling function recorded

Thorpe Moor Mill is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling.
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Former windmill site recorded

The Thorpe Moor windmill site is recorded among the known windmills of the Easington area.

Sources and records

Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
North East Mills windmill list