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Corn mill in use
Moulton Chapel Mill worked as a wind-powered tower corn mill.
Site overview
Moulton Chapel Mill is a former tower corn mill at Moulton Chapel in South Holland. It replaced an earlier post mill that was demolished in 1865, and the county windmill list records the tower mill as dating from the same year. Specialist mill records identify the site as a wind-powered tower mill with a corn-milling function.
The mill stands within the South Holland fenland landscape, where tower mills served the grain-growing settlements between Spalding, Holbeach, and the surrounding villages. The public record is strongest for the mill's identity, tower-mill type, date, corn-milling role, and continuing recognition as a recorded windmill structure.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Moulton Chapel Mill stood in the fenland settlement of Moulton Chapel. A post mill previously served the locality, but that earlier structure was demolished in 1865. The later tower mill is recorded as dating from 1865, showing a direct transition from the older post-mill tradition to the more substantial brick tower-mill form.
The mill worked as a wind-powered corn mill. Its location in South Holland placed it within one of Lincolnshire's densest windmilling districts, where village tower mills processed grain from the surrounding reclaimed fenland. Specialist windmill records preserve the site as Moulton Chapel Mill and identify it as a tower mill rather than the better-known restored Moulton Windmill to the north.
The surviving public account is concise but establishes the essential lifecycle of the site: an earlier post mill, replacement by the 1865 tower mill, and later survival as a recorded former windmill structure within the Moulton Chapel landscape.
Timeline
1865
Earlier post mill demolished
The earlier post mill at Moulton Chapel was demolished in 1865.
1865
Tower mill built
Moulton Chapel Mill is recorded as a tower mill dating from 1865.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman
Mills Archive site record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Windmills by Peter Dolman