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Drainage mill recorded
The Foxton mill is recorded as a wind-powered smock drainage mill and small pumping mill.
Site overview
The Foxton smock mill is a small wind-powered drainage mill in Cambridgeshire. Windmill World identifies it as a smock mill used for drainage and describes it as a small pumping mill. The site is also linked to a Mills Archive record under the name Smock mill, Foxton.
Its documented modern condition is one of restoration rather than complete loss, distinguishing it from many reduced former windmill remains in the county. The recorded function places it among small pumping mills rather than corn mills, with its value lying in the survival and restoration of a compact wind-powered drainage structure.
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History
Foxton smock mill is recorded as a small wind-powered drainage mill. Unlike the corn mills that dominate many Cambridgeshire windmill records, this site is identified as a pumping mill, giving it a functional connection with water management rather than flour production. Windmill World records the mill at Foxton as a smock mill and describes its function as a drainage mill, adding that it is a small pumping mill.
The same entry records the site as under restoration, while the associated Mills Archive record identifies it as Smock mill, Foxton. The documented history is centred on its type, function, and surviving restoration status. The mill therefore represents a compact survival of wind-powered pumping technology within the Cambridgeshire landscape, with its public record strongest for its drainage function and present restoration rather than for a detailed sequence of construction, ownership, or working-life events.
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Restoration recorded
The small Foxton smock drainage mill is recorded as under restoration.
Sources and records
Windmill World site entry
Mills Archive mill record
Mills Archive mill record