1800–1899
Windmill Inn established
The Windmill Inn became a long-standing feature of The Green at Eccleston during the nineteenth century.
Site overview
The Windmill Inn, also known as the Windmill Hotel, stands on The Green at Eccleston. Local inn history identifies it as a long-established feature of the village from the early nineteenth century. The building preserves the windmill name within the village landscape and is associated with the former windmill presence at Eccleston.
Later history is strongest for its public-house use rather than for the working mill itself. The inn closed in 2013 after structural problems, leaving the building standing but no longer in use as a public house. The surviving site remains part of the village's historic built environment and preserves the local windmill association in its name and location.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
The Windmill Inn at Eccleston, also known as the Windmill Hotel, stands at Langton Brow on The Green. It has been a feature of the village since the early nineteenth century and preserves the historic windmill name within the centre of Eccleston.
The recorded history of the site is clearest in its later life as a public house. The Windmill Inn became an established village landmark on The Green, with the windmill name retaining the association with Eccleston's wind-powered milling past. Photographic records and local public-house history show the building in its later commercial form rather than as a working mill structure.
The inn closed in 2013 after structural problems. The building remained standing after closure, although its future was uncertain. The site therefore survives chiefly as a windmill-associated historic building and place-name within the Eccleston village landscape, rather than as a complete working mill.
Timeline
2013
Public house closed
The Windmill Inn closed after structural problems.
Sources and records
Eccleston Windmill Inn local inn history
Geograph photographic record
Mills Archive catalogue reference for Eccleston parish windmills
Geograph photographic record
Mills Archive catalogue reference for Eccleston parish windmills