1823
Tower mill built
Saxilby Moor Mill was built in 1823 as a red-brick tower cereal mill.
Site overview
Saxilby Moor Mill is a former tower cereal mill on Broadholme Road, Saxilby. It was built in 1823 as a red-brick tower of four storeys tapering to the top. Local mill records describe it as a four-sailed mill with five floors, working by wind until 1927.
Historic England Research Records give a cessation date of about 1925, while local mill material records continued use by oil engine for a few years from the late 1920s. The mill survives as a recorded tower-mill structure and has been photographed in the early twenty-first century. It represents the continued adaptation of a nineteenth-century windmill after the end of wind-powered working.
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History
Saxilby Moor Mill stands on Broadholme Road at Saxilby. It was built in 1823 for cereal milling and is described in Historic England Research Records as a red-brick tower of four storeys tapering to the top. Lincolnshire mill records describe the working mill as four-sailed and five-floored.
The mill worked by wind into the 1920s. Historic England records that it ceased working around 1925, while local Lincolnshire mill material records wind working until 1927. For a few years from the late 1920s the mill was powered by an oil engine, continuing the milling function after the loss of regular wind power. This change reflects the wider transition of many Lincolnshire mills from wind-driven production to auxiliary mechanical power before closure.
The mill survives as a former tower mill and has been photographed as the Old Mill on Broadholme Road. It preserves the form of Saxilby's nineteenth-century wind-powered cereal-milling history in a reduced but recognisable structure.
Timeline
1823–1927
Wind-powered milling period
The four-sailed mill worked by wind until the mid to late 1920s.
1925–1927
Wind working ended
Wind-powered working ended in the 1920s, with records giving about 1925 or 1927.
1928–1930
Oil-engine working continued
For a few years from the late 1920s the mill was powered by oil engine.
2002
Mill photographed for Images of England
Saxilby Moor Hill on Broadholme Road was photographed on 13 August 2002.
2005
Old mill photographed
The Old Mill at Broadholme Road was photographed on 4 December 2005.
Sources and records
Historic England Research Records
Historic England Images of England photograph
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Saxilby records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Geograph photograph record
Archaeology Data Service record
Historic England Images of England photograph
Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Saxilby records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive site record
Geograph photograph record
Archaeology Data Service record