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Corn and oil mill in use
The tower mill functioned as a wind-powered corn mill and oil mill.
Site overview
Crowland Tower Mill is a former wind-powered tower mill at Crowland. Specialist mill sources record it as a tower mill with corn-milling and oil-milling functions. The surviving structure is a truncated tower that has been converted to domestic use.
The mill belongs to the fenland windmill landscape of south Lincolnshire, where tower mills served local agricultural processing and settlement needs. The public record is strongest for the mill's type, dual corn and oil function, reduced survival, and later residential conversion.
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History
Crowland Tower Mill was a wind-powered tower mill serving the fenland settlement of Crowland. The mill is recorded as having both corn-milling and oil-milling functions, linking it with the mixed agricultural and processing economy of the surrounding South Lincolnshire fen.
The surviving structure is a truncated tower rather than a complete working windmill. The loss of the cap, sails, and upper working form ended its original identity as an operating windmill, but the lower tower fabric continued in use after conversion to a house. In that form it preserves the position and mass of the former mill within the local landscape.
The modern record preserves Crowland Tower Mill chiefly through specialist windmill catalogues and its identification as a converted tower. Its known history is therefore concentrated on its function as a corn and oil mill, its reduction to a truncated tower, and its reuse as domestic fabric.
Timeline
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Tower reduced
The mill was reduced to a truncated tower after the loss of its complete windmill form.
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Converted to residential use
The truncated tower was converted to a house.
Sources and records
Mills Archive site record
Windmill World site entry
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Property record for converted Crowland tower mill
Windmill World site entry
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Property record for converted Crowland tower mill