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Tower corn mill recorded
The site is recorded as a tower mill used for corn milling at Barby.
Site overview
Barby Windmill stands at Barby in Northamptonshire and is recorded as a tower corn mill. Modern windmill records place the tower at the supplied coordinates and identify it as a surviving mill. The building is protected as a listed structure under the name Barby Corn Mill, and photographic records from the early twenty-first century show the tower still standing.
The accessible evidence confirms the site as a wind-powered corn mill and surviving tower structure, but provides limited detail on its construction date, machinery, ownership sequence, final working date or later conversion. The site is therefore best recorded as a surviving former tower corn mill at Barby, with its present heritage value lying principally in the retained tower.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Barby Windmill is recorded as a tower corn mill at Barby in Northamptonshire. The site is identified in modern windmill inventories at the supplied coordinates, which correspond to Barby rather than Kilsby. The mill is protected in the listed-building record under the name Barby Corn Mill, and modern photographic records from 2000, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010 show the surviving tower in the landscape.
The available sources identify the mill type and its corn-milling function, but they do not provide a detailed construction date, named millwright, sail and cap arrangement, miller sequence, machinery inventory or final working date. The record is therefore strongest for location, function, survival and listed status. The site should be treated as the surviving tower of a former Barby corn windmill rather than as a Kilsby windmill.
Timeline
2000
Listed mill photographed
The former Barby Corn Mill was photographed for the listed-building image record.
2010
Surviving tower recorded
A modern photographic record showed the surviving Barby mill tower.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Barby windmill
Mills Archive entry: Tower mill, Barby
Historic England list entry: Barby Corn Mill
Geograph photographic records: Barby Mill
Mills Archive entry: Tower mill, Barby
Historic England list entry: Barby Corn Mill
Geograph photographic records: Barby Mill