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Riverside mill photographed
A nineteenth-century photograph shows the windmill along the towpath with the miller's house next to it.
Site overview
Little Paxton Mill was a smock windmill beside the riverside towpath at Little Paxton. County windmill lists record it as a smock mill standing around 1864, and a nineteenth-century photograph preserves the appearance of the windmill with its adjacent miller's house. The site lay near the Great Ouse and the paper mill lock, placing it within Little Paxton's riverside working landscape.
By the 1980s the windmill itself had gone, leaving only the square miller's house. The land on which the mill once stood was later incorporated into Red Admiral Court. The site is therefore a former windmill location rather than a surviving mill structure.
Map
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History
Little Paxton Mill was a smock windmill on the riverside at Little Paxton. A nineteenth-century photograph records the mill along the towpath, with the adjacent miller's house beside it. County windmill lists identify the site as Little Paxton Mill and describe it as a smock mill standing around 1864.
The mill belonged to the working landscape beside the River Great Ouse, close to the area of the paper mill lock. Its relationship with the towpath and miller's house is an important part of the surviving visual record, showing the windmill as part of a riverside group rather than as an isolated field mill.
The windmill did not survive into the later twentieth century. By the 1980s the only remaining building associated with the site was the square miller's house. Later local records describe the land on which the windmill stood as forming part of Red Admiral Court. Little Paxton Mill is now best understood as a former smock windmill site, documented through historic photography and local records but no longer represented by a standing mill structure.
Timeline
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Site incorporated into Red Admiral Court
The land on which the windmill once stood later formed part of Red Admiral Court.
1864
Smock mill recorded standing
Little Paxton Mill is recorded as a smock mill standing around 1864.
1980–1989
Miller's house remained
By the 1980s the windmill had gone and only the square miller's house remained.
Sources and records
St Neots Community Archive record
List of windmills in Cambridgeshire
Little Paxton Scrapbook reference
St Neots Museum paper mill history page
List of windmills in Cambridgeshire
Little Paxton Scrapbook reference
St Neots Museum paper mill history page