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Corn tower mill recorded
The site is recorded as a tower mill used for processing cereals.
Site overview
Thornborough Windmill is a truncated former corn tower mill at Thornborough. Windmill World records the site as Thornborough tower mill, a truncated corn tower mill at NGR SP737352. The Mills Archive also records Thornborough tower mill, and archaeological data identifies Thornborough Windmill as a tower mill for the processing of cereals.
The consulted sources provide a clear identification of the site, type, function, and surviving reduced form, but little detailed chronology. The windmill stood within the wider mill landscape of Thornborough, a village with separate watermill history. Its present record is therefore mainly one of structural survival: a former brick tower mill reduced from its original working form.
No firm construction date, final working date, miller sequence, machinery inventory, restoration history, or formal statutory listing has been identified in the consulted sources.
Map
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History
Thornborough Windmill is recorded by specialist mill sources as a former corn tower mill. Windmill World lists the site as Thornborough tower mill, at NGR SP737352, and describes it as a tower mill used as a corn mill, now truncated. The Mills Archive records Thornborough tower mill in its catalogue, while an archaeological data record identifies Thornborough Windmill as a tower mill for the processing of cereals in Thornborough, Buckinghamshire.
The available evidence establishes the identity, locality, type, function, and present reduced condition of the windmill, but it does not provide a full working history. The site should be distinguished from Thornborough watermill, which is a separate mill site recorded in Buckinghamshire heritage data. No reliable consulted source has supplied a construction date, builder, owner, named miller, sail type, cap form, number of stones, or date when wind-powered milling ended.
The surviving structure is recorded simply as truncated, meaning the former tower has been reduced from its original height or working completeness. The present value of the site lies in the survival of part of the windmill tower as physical evidence of Thornborough's wind-powered corn-milling history.
Timeline
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Tower truncated
The former corn tower mill survives in truncated form.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive catalogue record
Ariadne archaeological data record
Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal record search
Mills Archive catalogue record
Ariadne archaeological data record
Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal record search