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Tower survives in truncated form
The former tower mill survives as a truncated structure after the loss of its cap, sails, and working machinery.
Site overview
Marland's Mill is a former tower corn mill at West Meon, standing on a hill about a mile north of the village. Specialist mill records identify the site as a truncated tower mill, with the surviving remains marking a once wind-powered corn-milling site in the Meon valley landscape. The mill appears in nineteenth-century visual and local-history material, including discussion of its likely appearance in the background of Frederick Leighton's portrait of May Sartoris.
The recorded history is strongest for the mill's later survival as a reduced structure rather than for its working life. The tower remains provide a visible survival of West Meon's wind-powered milling history, though the cap, sails, and working machinery have gone.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Marland's Mill stands on high ground north of West Meon and is recorded as a former tower corn mill. Its position made it a prominent feature in the local landscape, and later local-history discussion links the windmill with the background of Frederick Leighton's nineteenth-century portrait of May Sartoris, painted during the period when the Sartoris family were associated with nearby Westbury House.
The mill is recorded as a tower mill and as a corn mill, with a probable mid-nineteenth-century date in specialist windmill lists. By the later photographic and map-based record it survived only in truncated form. The cap, sails, and machinery are no longer present, leaving the reduced tower as the principal physical survival. The known history is therefore strongest for the site's identification, location, function, and present fabric, rather than for individual millers or the detailed sequence of its working life. As a surviving tower remnant, Marland's Mill preserves a visible part of the wind-powered milling landscape around West Meon.
Timeline
1860
Tower mill recorded
Marland's Mill is recorded as a tower corn mill at West Meon, with specialist windmill lists giving a mid-nineteenth-century date.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Geograph windmills gazetteer
East Meon History article on May Sartoris
List of windmills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Mills Archive site record
Geograph windmills gazetteer
East Meon History article on May Sartoris
List of windmills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight