Ellis Mill Lincoln · Lincolnshire · England

Ellis Mill stands on Mill Road in Lincoln, close to the Museum of Lincolnshire Life. It is the last survivor of the group of windmills that once occupied the Lincoln hilltop. Although the existing mill was built in 1798, the site has a longer milling history, with a mill recorded there from at least the middle of the seventeenth century.

The present mill is a small three-storey brick tower mill with an ogee cap, fantail, and four sails. It worked as part of the city's wind-powered corn-milling economy and continued in use into the twentieth century. Later decline left it as the last standing representative of Lincoln's hilltop mills.

A major restoration by Lincoln Civic Trust between 1977 and 1983 returned Ellis Mill to full working order. The restored mill is owned by Lincolnshire County Council and operated with volunteer support. Its survival is unusually strong: rather than remaining only as a truncated tower, Ellis Mill retains the external working form of a tower windmill and continues to represent the practical technology of flour milling within the city landscape.