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Site overview

Saltfleet Mill is a Grade II listed tower corn mill on Main Street, Saltfleet. It stands on the old sea bank in Mill Lane and was built around 1770, with late nineteenth-century alterations. The mill worked as a corn mill and ceased working in 1951.

Later records describe the building as derelict, with interior floors in a state of collapse. Historic and modern photographs record the tower as a surviving coastal Lincolnshire windmill structure. Saltfleet Mill preserves a rare eighteenth-century tower-mill survival within the coastal and former marshland landscape north of Mablethorpe.

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History

Saltfleet Mill stands in the coastal village of Saltfleet, on or near the old sea bank. It was built around 1770 as a brick tower mill and later altered in the late nineteenth century. Its early date makes it one of the older recorded tower mills in the Lincolnshire list.

The mill worked as a wind-powered corn mill. Its position at Saltfleet placed it within a coastal and marsh-edge agricultural landscape, where milling was closely connected with grain production and local settlement along the North Sea coast. It continued to work until 1951.

After the end of milling the building declined. Historic England Research Records describe the mill as derelict, with the interior floors in a state of collapse. The structure is nevertheless protected as a Grade II listed building and remains a visible tower-mill survival. Photographic records from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries show the mill as a recognisable former windmill within Saltfleet's village and coastal landscape.

Timeline

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Derelict tower recorded

The mill was recorded as derelict, with interior floors in a state of collapse.
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Grade II listed building designation

Saltfleet Mill is protected as a Grade II listed tower mill.
1770

Tower mill built

Saltfleet Mill was built around 1770 as a brick tower mill.
1770–1951

Corn mill in use

Saltfleet Mill worked as a wind-powered corn mill until 1951.
1800–1899

Late nineteenth-century alterations

The tower mill was altered in the late nineteenth century.
1951

Milling ceased

Saltfleet Mill ceased working in 1951.

Sources and records

Historic England listed building entry
Historic England Research Records
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Saltfleet records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Geograph photograph record
List of windmills in Lincolnshire