1822
Windmill shown on mapping
Penzoy Mill at Westonzoyland is recorded from an 1822 map reference.
Site overview
Penzoy Mill was a windmill site at Westonzoyland in Somerset. The identifiable evidence is limited, but the site is recorded as a windmill at Westonzoyland and appears in nineteenth-century mapping evidence, including an 1822 map reference. No surviving tower, machinery, cap, sails, or associated mill buildings have been identified in the consulted material.
The available record therefore supports a cautious site-only description rather than a standing mill description. Its documented place within the Westonzoyland landscape indicates a former wind-powered milling site on the Somerset Levels, but operational details, millers, construction fabric, later alteration, and final removal have not been established from the available sources.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Penzoy Mill is recorded as a windmill site at Westonzoyland, Somerset. The clearest identified evidence places the mill on nineteenth-century mapping, with a map reference in 1822. The available material does not provide a secure construction date, although the 1822 reference confirms that the windmill site was recognised by that date.
No detailed operational history has been identified. The sources consulted do not give miller names, ownership history, machinery details, production information, or a dated closure sequence. No surviving tower or shaft-top structure has been identified, and the site is therefore best treated as a documented windmill site rather than a surviving windmill building.
Later evidence for demolition, conversion, or reuse has not been found. The present record is limited to the former location and nineteenth-century documentation of the mill at Westonzoyland.
Timeline
Sources and records
List of windmills in Somerset
Somerset Historic Environment Record entry for Westonzoyland Airfield windmill site
British History Online Victoria County History: Westonzoyland
Somerset Historic Environment Record entry for Westonzoyland Airfield windmill site
British History Online Victoria County History: Westonzoyland