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Base preserved as garden store
The remaining base was preserved with a conical roof and used as a garden store.
Site overview
North Marston Windmill is represented by the preserved base of a former mill near the church at North Marston. Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal records the site as a nineteenth-century smock mill, later rebuilt as a tower mill, with only the base remaining. The mill is shown as Marston Mill on Bryant's 1825 map, and the surviving base is described as a one-storey stone base with a conical roof.
The same heritage record states that the mill was apparently moved to the site from Little Mill Hill Field around 1800 and demolished down to the stone base around 1890. A local heritage trail records the remains in the back garden of The Mill House, now used as a garden store. Windmill World records the North Marston mill as a truncated tower mill.
The surviving evidence is therefore the reduced base of a former windmill rather than a complete working mill.
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
North Marston Windmill survives only as the lower part of a former mill structure. Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal records the site 170 metres north-west of the church and identifies it as a smock mill of post-medieval to modern date, with a nineteenth-century history and a later tower-mill form. The record describes Marston Mill as shown approximately at the site on Bryant's 1825 map.
It states that the mill was apparently moved to this position from Little Mill Hill Field in about 1800, and that the structure was demolished as far as the stone base in about 1890. The preserved remains consist of a one-storey stone base with a conical roof. A North Marston heritage trail adds that all that remains is part of the base of the windmill, now used as a garden store in the back garden of The Mill House.
A planning-related archaeological document also records the post-medieval remains in North Marston as the base of a corn windmill, moved from Little Mill Hill Field around 1800 and demolished to the level of the stone base around 1890. Windmill World lists North Marston as a truncated tower mill at the same location. Detailed evidence for the mill's machinery, millers, sail arrangement, and final working date has not been identified in the consulted sources.
The present site is best understood as a surviving structural remnant: a reduced and roofed base marking the former windmill within the village.
Timeline
1800
Mill apparently moved to present site
The mill was apparently moved to the site from Little Mill Hill Field around 1800.
1825
Marston Mill mapped
Marston Mill was shown approximately at the site on Bryant's map of Buckinghamshire.
1890
Mill reduced to base
The windmill was demolished as far as its stone base around 1890.
Sources and records
Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal monument record
North Marston Heritage Trail
Archaeological report for No. 1 Portway, North Marston
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive image record
North Marston Heritage Trail
Archaeological report for No. 1 Portway, North Marston
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive image record