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Corn and oil milling recorded
Windmill World records the Ramsey tower mill as having corn-milling and oil-milling functions.
Site overview
Ramsey windmill is recorded by Windmill World as a tower mill at Ramsey, used as both a corn mill and an oil mill, and later converted to domestic use. The Mills Archive identifies the site as Tower mill, Ramsey. Photographic-register evidence records the surviving structure as a stump of a tower, with National Monuments Record photographs and an A. C. Smith photograph from June 1971.
Ramsey and District community archive material also records remains of the mill at Mill Lane before conversion. The consulted sources do not provide a construction date, builder, millwright, sail arrangement, machinery inventory, working millers or final working date. The evidenced present-facing character is therefore a reduced former tower mill adapted after its working life, with the visible survival centred on the tower stump rather than a complete cap, sails or machinery.
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History
Ramsey windmill is a former tower mill at Ramsey in Cambridgeshire. Windmill World identifies it as Ramsey windmill and records it as a tower mill with corn-milling and oil-milling functions, now house converted. The Mills Archive catalogue identifies the same site as Tower mill, Ramsey.
The Windmill Photographic Register gives only a limited structural sequence, recording National Monuments Record photographs of the stump of the tower and an A. C. Smith photograph of the same stump in June 1971. Ramsey and District community archive material records the remains of the mill at Mill Lane before conversion, supporting the evidence for a reduced structure subsequently adapted. No detailed documentary account of the original working arrangement has been identified in the consulted sources.
The sources do not name the builder, owner, millwright or working millers, and they do not state when the cap, sails, windshaft, gearing or stones were removed. The known record is therefore brief but clear: this was a Ramsey tower mill used for corn and oil milling, later reduced to a stump and converted to domestic use.
Timeline
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Domestic conversion recorded
Windmill World records the former tower mill as house converted.
1971
Tower stump photographed
The Windmill Photographic Register records an A. C. Smith photograph of the stump of the tower in June 1971.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry for Ramsey windmill
Mills Archive record for Tower mill, Ramsey
Windmill Photographic Register entry for Ramsey tower mill
Ramsey and District Community Archive record of Mill Lane remains
Mills Archive record for Tower mill, Ramsey
Windmill Photographic Register entry for Ramsey tower mill
Ramsey and District Community Archive record of Mill Lane remains