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Tower mill recorded
Croxton is identified in specialist windmill records as a tower mill.
Site overview
Croxton Windmill is represented by the Grade II listed remains of a windmill on Windmill Lane at Croxton, near Eccleshall in Staffordshire. The site is formally listed as Remains of Windmill, with the first listing recorded on 25 April 1980. Historic photographic records show the remains at Windmill Lane, and specialist windmill records identify Croxton as a tower mill.
Later local historical material records that the building was renovated in later years and became a private residence. The available sources do not give a full construction date, machinery inventory, miller sequence, or working-life chronology. The site is therefore best described through its surviving listed remains and later residential reuse.
Map
Map markers and directions links are provided for location reference only and do not indicate public access or permission to enter a site.
No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Croxton Windmill stands at Croxton, near Eccleshall, Staffordshire, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as the Grade II listed Remains of Windmill on Windmill Lane. The listing date is 25 April 1980. Specialist windmill records identify Croxton as a tower mill, and the windmill photographic register records the tower as capless in twentieth-century photographs, including mid-century and later views.
Historic image records also document the remains on Windmill Lane. Local historical material records the Old Windmill at Croxton and notes that in later years the building was renovated and became a private residence. The available sources do not provide a secure construction date, detailed operational history, machinery description, or final working date.
The evidenced record centres on the survival of the tower remains, statutory designation, photographic documentation, and later domestic reuse.
Timeline
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Building renovated for residential use
Local historical material records that the Old Windmill at Croxton was renovated in later years and became a private residence.
1980
Listed as Grade II
The remains of the windmill on Windmill Lane were first listed at Grade II on 25 April 1980.
2001
Listed remains photographed
The windmill remains on Windmill Lane were photographed for the Images of England project.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List for England entry: Remains of Windmill, Eccleshall
Historic England Archive photograph record: Remains of Windmill, Windmill Lane
Windmill World entry for Croxton, Eccleshall
Windmill photographic register
Staffordshire Past Track record: The Old Windmill, Croxton, near Eccleshall
Historic England Archive photograph record: Remains of Windmill, Windmill Lane
Windmill World entry for Croxton, Eccleshall
Windmill photographic register
Staffordshire Past Track record: The Old Windmill, Croxton, near Eccleshall