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Tower corn mill recorded
Clifton Windmill is recorded as a tower corn mill at Clifton, Newton-with-Clifton.
Site overview
Clifton Windmill is a former tower corn mill at Clifton, within Newton-with-Clifton. Specialist windmill records identify it as a tower mill at 53.77486, -2.8140, converted and run as a pub and restaurant. The mill is one of the Fylde and lower Ribble tower-mill survivals associated with the district's nineteenth-century corn-milling landscape.
Its present significance lies in the survival and reuse of the tower rather than in continued mechanical operation. The former mill no longer functions as a working windmill, but the converted tower preserves the visible form of the historic corn mill within the settlement.
Map
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History
Clifton Windmill stands at Clifton in the civil parish of Newton-with-Clifton. It was a tower corn mill, part of the wider group of Lancashire and Fylde windmills that served rural communities before steam, roller milling, and larger industrial mills altered local corn-milling patterns.
The published record for Clifton Windmill is strongest for its identity, type, survival, and later reuse. Windmill records identify the building as a tower corn mill and record its later conversion for pub and restaurant use. The surviving tower therefore represents a substantial adaptation of a former working mill rather than a restored wind-powered machine. The cap, sails, and working equipment are not the defining present features of the site; the importance of the survival is the retained tower and its continued use within the built landscape at Clifton.
Clifton Windmill is now best understood as a converted former corn mill, preserving the outward mass and landmark role of a local tower windmill while serving a later hospitality function.
Timeline
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Converted to pub and restaurant
The former tower mill was converted and used as a pub and restaurant.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Lancashire
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Lancashire