West Walton Ingleborough Tower Windmill West Walton · Norfolk · England

Ingleborough Mill, also known as West Walton Ingleborough tower windmill, was built at West Walton as a major nineteenth-century corn mill. In June 1824 it was advertised as a capital and new tower wind corn mill called Ingleborough Mill. The mill contained eight floors, three pairs of French stones, one pair of grey stones and machinery for a flour mill.

It was described as having five self-regulating sails, flies and a gallery, with a bakehouse adjoining. In 1827 it was again advertised as a newly built brick tower wind corn mill with dwelling house, bakehouse, cart sheds, stable, outbuildings and garden ground. The milling machinery included three pairs of French stones, one pair of grey stones, a cylinder and a bunting machine.

In 1837 the mill was described as an eight-floor tower mill driving four pairs of stones, and in 1846 as a mill in full business with five patent sails and four pairs of stones. By 1858 it was being advertised as a six-sail tower windmill driving four pairs of stones, with house, bake office and outbuildings. The mill remained in use into the twentieth century and was recorded as working in 1926.

Technical notes describe six single-shuttered patent sails, four pairs of stones, an iron brake wheel and a half-sack Tattersall roller plant. It was derelict by 1949. The cap and sails have gone, but the substantial brick tower survives at Hill House Farm as a prominent remnant of a large Fenland corn mill.