Former Aughton Moss windmill site, with the historic mill demolished in the early twentieth century.
The coordinates correspond to the Aughton Moss Windmill area, associated in records with Whimbrick Mill and the later Colinmander Gardens area. Historic England research records describe the site as a windmill demolished in 1910, built in the eighteenth century on the site of an earlier post mill. Documentary references cited in the record point to a windmill associated with the manor of Up Litherland in 1418, a sixteenth-century rent from Whimbrick Mill, and later references to the mill croft at Aughton.
The record identifies Aughton Moss Mill as a corn mill. The surviving structure is not evidenced in the consulted sources; the positive evidence is for a historic mill site whose built form had disappeared by 1910. During the Second World War the foundations of the earlier post mill were reportedly used as an air raid shelter.
The site identified by the coordinates is Aughton Moss Windmill, also associated with the name Whimbrick Mill. Historic England research records place Aughton Moss Windmill in West Lancashire and describe it as a windmill demolished in 1910. The same record states that the eighteenth-century windmill was built on the site of a post mill.
Earlier documentary references cited in the record include a 1418 settlement connected with the manor of Up Litherland, from which a windmill was excepted. The record interprets this as referring to Whimbrick Mill, or Aughton Moss Mill, situated on the most elevated part of the Moss. A 1537 reference records an annual rent from one windmill, Whimbrick Mill, then occupied by Hugh Martyndale.
A 1598 legal action concerned the mill croft at Aughton. Later mapping identified Aughton Moss Mill as a corn mill. The mill was demolished in 1910, leaving the site rather than a standing tower as the principal survival.
The same record states that the foundations of the post mill were used as an air raid shelter during the Second World War. No surviving windmill tower is evidenced in the consulted records for this coordinate.