Site overview
Saunderson's Mill at Steeple Morden was a smock corn mill recorded on Ashwell Road. Built in 1805, it formed part of the village's wind-powered milling landscape before later use as a power mill. Twentieth-century photographic records show the mill after its working windmill phase, with the structure disused as a windmill but still connected with milling activity.
Later records place it without sails, retaining the identity of a former smock mill rather than a complete working windmill.
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History
Saunderson's Mill was a smock corn mill at Steeple Morden. It was built in 1805 and stood on Ashwell Road, serving the village and surrounding agricultural district as a wind-powered mill. Its smock form placed it within the timber-framed windmill tradition of south Cambridgeshire.
The mill's later history is recorded through twentieth-century photographic and specialist mill records. By 1947 it was disused as a windmill but was still associated with the milling business. Later photographs continued to show it without sails, including views from the late 1960s and early 1970s when the site was recorded as a power mill. The surviving account therefore traces the mill from its early nineteenth-century construction into a later phase in which the wind-powered function had ended but the building and milling association remained recognisable.
Timeline
Disused as a windmill
Power-mill phase recorded
Sources and records
Mills Archive database entry
Guy Blythman Windmill Photographic Register