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Site overview

Burgh le Marsh Mill is a former tower mill at Burgh le Marsh in Lincolnshire. Specialist windmill records identify the site as a tower mill, and the Windmills of Lincolnshire list places it at the recorded coordinates as a surviving tower-mill site. The mill formed part of the dense wind-powered milling landscape of the Lincolnshire coastal plain, where Burgh le Marsh also contains the better-known Dobson's Mill.

This site is recorded separately from Dobson's Mill and preserves a second tower-mill identity within the settlement. The available record establishes its name, type, and survival as a former windmill structure.

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History

Burgh le Marsh Mill was one of the tower windmills of Burgh le Marsh. The settlement had more than one windmill, reflecting its agricultural role on the Lincolnshire coastal plain. This site is recorded separately from Dobson's Mill and represents another tower-mill survival in the town.

Specialist windmill records identify the site as a tower mill. The windmill belongs to the group of Lincolnshire tower mills that served corn-growing districts and rural market settlements. The detailed working chronology of this particular mill is compact, but its identity and location are preserved in county windmill listings and specialist mill records.

The present significance of Burgh le Marsh Mill rests in the documented survival of a former tower-mill site within a settlement strongly associated with wind-powered milling. It contributes to the wider picture of Burgh le Marsh as a place where multiple windmills formed part of the local milling economy.

Timeline

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Tower mill recorded

Burgh le Marsh Mill is recorded as a tower windmill.
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Former windmill site survives

The site is recorded in the Windmills of Lincolnshire list as a surviving tower-mill site at Burgh le Marsh.

Sources and records

Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive record
Windmills of Lincolnshire list
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman