Redworth Tower Mill

Site overview

Redworth Tower Mill is a former tower corn mill at Redworth. Specialist mill records identify the site as a tower mill and record its function as corn milling. The mapped position is approximate, but the site is consistently placed at Redworth rather than Shildon.

The survival category indicates a site-only record rather than a complete standing mill. The known history is therefore limited but positive: Redworth had a wind-powered tower mill used for corn milling, and the site is recognised in specialist windmill records and regional windmill listings. It preserves the recorded location of a former windmill within the Redworth landscape.

Map

Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.

No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.

History

Redworth Tower Mill was a former tower corn mill in County Durham. It is identified in specialist mill records as a tower mill at Redworth, with corn milling recorded as the working function. The site is also included in regional windmill lists for north-east England.

The available record places the mill within the broader County Durham windmill landscape, where small tower mills served local grain processing before wind-powered milling declined. The Redworth site is recorded by specialist sources, but the mapped position is approximate and the survival is best treated as site-only rather than a complete standing windmill.

The historical value of the record lies in confirming the presence of a tower corn mill at Redworth. The site preserves a location within the local agricultural and milling landscape, even though detailed construction, working, closure, and fabric history is not strongly documented in the surviving public sources.

Timeline

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Corn milling function recorded

Redworth Tower Mill is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling.

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Former windmill site recorded

The Redworth tower mill site is included among the known windmills of County Durham.

Sources and records

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