1816
Tower mill recorded
Barrow Haven Mill is recorded as an 1816 tower mill.
Site overview
Barrow Haven Mill was a tower mill at Barrow Haven, in the Barrow upon Humber area. Specialist mill records identify it as a tower mill with both corn-milling and saw-milling functions. The Lincolnshire windmill list gives 1816 for the mill and records it as standing in 1985.
The site therefore belongs to the early nineteenth-century group of North Lincolnshire tower mills, but it also had a documented saw-milling role around 1816, giving it a wider industrial function than grain milling alone. The surviving record is strongest for the mill's identity, date, function, and continued standing status in the late twentieth century.
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History
Barrow Haven Mill was an early nineteenth-century tower mill at Barrow Haven, close to the Humber-side settlement and port landscape associated with Barrow upon Humber. The Lincolnshire windmill list gives 1816 for the mill and records it as a tower mill still standing in 1985.
The mill had more than one working function. Specialist mill records identify it as both a corn mill and a saw mill, and note saw-milling operation around 1816. This makes the site part of the wider industrial use of wind power in the Humber margin, where windmills could serve both agricultural processing and timber-working needs.
The later survival of the tower into the twentieth century is an important part of the site's record. Barrow Haven Mill is not documented here as a restored or complete working windmill, but its standing tower survival in 1985 confirms the continuing presence of historic windmill fabric long after its working life. The site preserves the memory of an early nineteenth-century wind-powered corn and saw mill within the Barrow Haven landscape.
Timeline
1816
Saw-milling use recorded
The mill operated as a saw mill around 1816 as well as serving a corn-milling function.
1985
Tower still standing
The tower mill was recorded as still standing in 1985.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Mills Archive record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman