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Site overview

Parbold Mill is a converted tower windmill on Mill Lane, Parbold. Modern windmill records identify the site as a tower mill converted for use as shops and an art gallery. The building is now associated with Mill House Gallery, which describes its premises as a converted eighteenth-century windmill and surrounding buildings.

The gallery has been the studio and exhibition space of artist James Bartholomew since the late twentieth century. The site therefore preserves a substantial former windmill structure in active commercial and cultural reuse rather than as a restored working mill.

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History

Parbold Mill stands on Mill Lane in Parbold, close to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It is recorded as a tower windmill and survives as a converted historic mill building. The windmill belongs to the village's older milling landscape, where wind power was used before the building entered later commercial and cultural use.

The surviving tower has been adapted rather than restored to working condition. Windmill records describe the former mill as converted and used for shops and an art gallery. Mill House Gallery identifies the site as a converted eighteenth-century windmill with surrounding buildings, now providing studio and gallery space. The gallery business has operated from the windmill premises since 1997. Parbold Mill therefore retains the visible form and historic identity of the former tower windmill while serving a later role in the village's commercial and artistic life.

Timeline

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Converted for commercial use

The former tower windmill was converted for use as shops and gallery space.
1700–1799

Tower windmill built

Parbold Mill is identified as an eighteenth-century windmill.
1997

Gallery use established

Mill House Gallery began operating from the converted windmill premises.

Sources and records

Windmill World site entry
Mill House Gallery website
Visit Lancashire entry: The Mill House Gallery
Own Art gallery entry
Discover Ormskirk entry: Mill House Gallery