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Tower corn mill in use
Godbold's Mill / Office Farm Mill operated as a tower corn mill at Metfield.
Site overview
Godbold's Mill, also known as Office Farm Mill, is a former tower corn mill at Metfield, Suffolk. The surviving structure is the ruinous stump of a tower mill. Windmill records identify the site as a corn mill and place it among the surviving windmill remains of Suffolk.
Photographic evidence from the twentieth century shows the mill as a stump by the 1930s and 1970s, with earlier views showing it complete or more substantially standing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Details of its construction date, machinery, working life, and final closure have not been fully established. The site now survives as a fragmentary tower-mill remain rather than a complete or working mill.
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Godbold's Mill, or Office Farm Mill, was a wind-powered corn mill at Metfield. It was a tower mill rather than a post mill, and its surviving form is ruinous. The mill formed part of Metfield's windmill landscape, which also included post-mill sites.
The available record identifies the structure as a tower corn mill and places it at TM 302 793. Historic photographs show the mill standing in earlier form around the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1930s it was recorded as a stump, and later photographs from the 1970s also show the surviving base.
Further details of the original cap, sails, internal machinery, millers, and working chronology have not been established. The present site is therefore documented chiefly through its identification as Godbold's Mill / Office Farm Mill and through the surviving ruinous tower fabric.
Timeline
1933
Tower reduced to stump
By the 1930s the tower mill survived as a stump rather than a complete windmill.
Sources and records
Windmill World entry: Metfield windmill
Suffolk Mills Group index of Suffolk windmills
Windmill Photographic Register entry: Metfield tower mill
Mills Archive catalogue references for Metfield tower mill
Suffolk Mills Group index of Suffolk windmills
Windmill Photographic Register entry: Metfield tower mill
Mills Archive catalogue references for Metfield tower mill