Arrington Mill Arrington · Cambridgeshire · England

Arrington Mill stood on Arrington Hill, about 1.5 miles north of Arrington village and west of the Great North Road. Capturing Cambridge records it as Arrington Mill and describes the surviving structure as a white brick tower windmill, early nineteenth century, with two stages surviving in the Royal Commission record of 1968. Wimpole Past gives a fuller local history.

Earlier records show milling in the parish from the medieval period: a mill was included in land settled by Robert Pugeys on Thomas and Alice Pugeys in 1319, and Robert Sap claimed a mill and one acre in Arrington from Thomas Pugeys in 1322. In 1784 William Peck of Gamlingay gave a mortgage to Abraham Pateman of the Arrington Mill Company. The surviving tower windmill is thought to have been constructed around 1827, when James Corney of Arrington applied for a loan to expand his business.

The 1828 Wimpole Estate map prepared by Roberts Withers for the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke shows the mill within Wragg's Farm, north of Arrington. The mill and farm were both tenanted to the Wimpole Estate. The Corney family worked Arrington Mill for much of the nineteenth century.

In 1891 it was described as a windmill with auxiliary steam power, and Wimpole Past records it as still operational in 1908. Henry Corney worked the mill until 1915 before retiring to Leytonstone. A member of the Charter family then ran the mill for about eight years.

In its later working life, flour was still ground but only for animal feed. The mill was badly damaged in 1923 when the top blew off during a violent storm. By 1934 it had been reduced to the two lowest floors and used for storage.

The stump remains today, but Wimpole Past records that it has been further reduced to just the lowest floor.