1764
Needham Market windmill mentioned
A smock windmill at Needham Market was mentioned by 1764.
Site overview
Needham Market windmill is recorded in Suffolk windmill lists as a smock mill rather than a tower mill. The mill was first mentioned in 1764 and was demolished around 1880. The accessible record does not establish a surviving tower structure or later domestic conversion for this particular site.
It is therefore represented as a former windmill site rather than as an extant tower mill. The available detail is limited to its location, type, first known mention, and approximate demolition date. No machinery inventory, miller sequence, or precise closure date has been established.
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
Needham Market windmill is identified in county windmill lists as a smock mill. It was first mentioned in 1764 and had been demolished by around 1880. The accessible material does not identify the site as a surviving tower mill, and no standing tower structure has been established for the coordinates supplied.
The record is therefore thin but clear in its essentials: the site belonged to the wind-powered milling landscape of Needham Market, the mill was a smock mill, and it did not survive beyond the later nineteenth century. No complete working history has been established. Details of the machinery, sails, internal arrangement, owners, millers, and final working date remain uncertain.
The site should therefore be treated as the location of a former smock windmill rather than as a preserved tower-mill structure.
Timeline
1880
Mill demolished
The Needham Market smock mill was demolished around 1880.
Sources and records
Suffolk Mills Group list: The Windmills of Suffolk
List of windmills in Suffolk
List of windmills in Suffolk