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Tower mill in use
Haydor Mill was recorded as a wind-powered tower mill.
Site overview
Haydor Mill is a former tower windmill at Haydor, near Oasby. Specialist windmill records identify the site as a tower mill and place it among the surviving windmills of Lincolnshire. Photographic registers record the mill as a capless tower in 1978 and include later views of the surviving structure.
The site stands within the rural limestone and arable landscape south of Grantham rather than in Grantham itself. The public record is strongest for the mill's identity, tower-mill type, location, and survival as a reduced capless tower.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Haydor Mill was a rural tower windmill at Haydor, near Oasby. It formed part of the scattered wind-powered milling landscape of south Lincolnshire, where individual tower mills served small villages and farming communities.
The mill is recorded by specialist windmill sources as a tower mill. Later photographic registers show the mill after the end of its working life, including a capless tower photographed in 1978 and later views of the surviving structure. These records show that the mill no longer retained its complete cap and sail arrangement but that the main tower survived as a recognisable windmill remnant.
The known public record for Haydor Mill is limited but consistent. It establishes the site as a surviving tower-mill structure in the Haydor and Oasby area. Its present significance lies in the survival of the tower as a visible remnant of a small rural wind-powered corn-milling site.
Timeline
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Tower survives
The former windmill survives as a reduced rural tower structure.
1978
Capless tower photographed
The mill was recorded as a capless tower in 1978.
Sources and records
Windmill World Lincolnshire gazetteer
Mills Archive photographic catalogue
Guy Blythman Windmill Photographic Register
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Mills Archive photographic catalogue
Guy Blythman Windmill Photographic Register
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman