1759
Tower mill shown on Taylor map
Isaac Taylor's map of 1759 marked a tower windmill just east of Yarmouth.
Site overview
Yarmouth Windmill was a tower windmill recorded just east of Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Isaac Taylor's 1759 map is the principal published evidence for the site, where it is identified as a tower mill. Later revised lists of Hampshire and Isle of Wight windmills include Yarmouth among the known Isle of Wight windmill sites.
The recorded history is strongest for the eighteenth-century map evidence and the mill's type and location. The site is therefore a former windmill location within the Yarmouth landscape rather than a preserved complete windmill comparable with Bembridge.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Yarmouth Windmill is recorded as a tower windmill just east of Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. The principal published evidence is Isaac Taylor's 1759 map, which distinguished between post and tower mill symbols and marked the Yarmouth site as a tower mill. Later revised lists of Hampshire and Isle of Wight windmill sites retained Yarmouth as one of the island's recorded windmill locations.
The mill belonged to the island's wider group of coastal and near-coastal windmill sites, many of which used exposed positions to supplement local milling where water power was absent or insufficient. The surviving published record identifies the site, location, and mill type, but does not preserve a detailed working chronology. Yarmouth Windmill is therefore best treated as a documented former tower-mill site, known from eighteenth-century mapping and later county windmill scholarship.
Timeline
1978
Site included in revised windmill list
The Yarmouth tower mill site was included in a revised list of Hampshire and Isle of Wight windmill sites.
Sources and records
Windmills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: A Revised List of Sites
List of windmills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Historic map source: Isaac Taylor, 1759
List of windmills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Historic map source: Isaac Taylor, 1759