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Tower mill in use
The Pickworth tower mill formed part of the village's wind-powered milling landscape.
Site overview
Pickworth Tower Mill is a former tower windmill at Pickworth in South Kesteven. The county windmill list records an earlier post mill at Pickworth that was demolished in the early nineteenth century, followed by a tower mill dating from the same broad period. Specialist mill records identify the tower mill as a recorded Lincolnshire windmill site.
The surviving public record is strongest for the mill's identity, locality, and early nineteenth-century tower-mill form. It represents the replacement of older post-mill technology by a more permanent tower mill within a small rural parish between Grantham and Sleaford.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Pickworth Tower Mill belonged to the rural windmilling landscape of south Lincolnshire. The county windmill list records an earlier Pickworth post mill that was demolished in the early nineteenth century, followed by a tower mill of early nineteenth-century date. This sequence reflects a common change in Lincolnshire milling, as timber post mills were replaced by brick or masonry tower mills.
The mill stood within the agricultural setting of Pickworth, a small village east of Grantham and south of Sleaford. Specialist mill records preserve the tower mill as a recorded site, though the accessible public summaries give only limited operational detail. The essential history is nevertheless clear: Pickworth had an earlier post mill, that mill disappeared in the early nineteenth century, and a tower mill took its place within the same local milling landscape.
The site now survives through specialist windmill records and its association with the former rural tower mill.
Timeline
1800–1833
Earlier post mill demolished
An earlier post mill at Pickworth was demolished in the early nineteenth century.
1800–1833
Tower mill built
Pickworth Tower Mill is recorded as an early nineteenth-century tower mill.
Sources and records
Windmill World Lincolnshire gazetteer
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