CHESHIRE WINDMILLS Sources ADLINGTON PRESTBURY A 1/4 MILE S.W. OF CHURCH.BRICK TOWER MILL GOTHIC STUCCO WORK INSIDE (CHESHIRE:PEVSNER & HUBBARD 1971) APPLETON, GREAT BUDWORTH JOHN BALE…LIVED IN APPLETON,ONE OF THE ARLEY ESTATE TOWNSHIPS…HE ALSO OWNED A WATERMILL,WINDMILL AND A MALT‐KILN (C.FOSTER, CHESHRIE CHEESE FARMING IN THE NORTH‐WEST, 1998) ASHTON U/P MERSEY, SALE. M'CHEST POSSIBLE WINDMILL MOUND: TITHE MAP:PLOT 161 (ASHTON U/P MERSEY CONSERVATION AREA TRAFFORD COUNCIL,, 2015) ASTON, NANTWICH An old windmill was adapted to supply neighbouring houses prior to Liverpool water. Late 18th century five brick thick walls, sails replaced in 1890 by a wind‐ pump and became a water tower for the Dorfold estate. (Bill Pearson, Acton Church, St.George online) Bidston, Wirral Windmilla nd warehouse on tithe map Boughton, Chester 2l.12s.0d issuing from Boughton windmill paid by John Handley. (Monasticum Anglicanum or the History of the Abbies 1819, digitised 2009) Messuage with houses, buildings and gardens in Great Boughton. Windmill near road to Vicar's Cross' Grant by John Hawke 1569 held at Chester Record Office. Bostock, Northwich The square tower of the building housed a massive water tank and beneath it were two boilers heated by fires. The water was pumped into the tower by a windmill by the building Tony Bostock, A History of a Village and its People 2010 Bradley, Frodsham Bradley Lower Mill. 'A second windmill at Bradley by Frodsham. An Upper Mill had existed since 1397.' (Bott O, Document in Chester Record Office 1831MS) Brimstage, Wirral A windmill is recorded though associated with field‐ names on the early maps of the township.' (Wirral Historic Project,2011) Bromborough, Wirral Above the watermill, a tower windmill. Not an old one. Blown about 1875 due to being unsafe. (E.M.Abraham, Flour Mills of the Wirral,1903) Formerly there was a windmill connected to the watermill. It was a very graceful tower made of brick and built in 1777…The bricks from it were used to build the row brick cottages.' (www.dibbinsdale.co.uk/park/history) Broxton, Malpas Deeds relating to an estate in Broxton conveyed by Edward Tarat to Sir Philip Egerton, 1674‐76 Broxton Windmill. (Broxton, Historic Towns Survey, 2003) Print of Bolesworth Castle dated 1788 showing the windmill in the background. (Cheshire Image Bank) Buerton, Nantwich The village had a windmill in 1653; the surviving building just outside the village dates from 1779. (Buerton, Cheshrie East, Monopedia, 2017.) Late 18th /early 19th century. Red English garden bond, circular with battered walls, 4‐storey, 2 sets of millwheels. (Village website.) In 1653, J.Jones was the miller' (Audlem Chronology. Audlem website.) Burland, Nantwich A former windmill dating from the early 19th century. Has been restored as a residential property. Probably built by the Tollemache family at the turn of the 18th century. Tower still survives. Burton, Wirral The ruined Burton Mill is situated on top of the hill through the woods to the north of the village. The base of the old peg mill and some woodwork are all that remains of this once picturesque landmark. (E.M.Abraham, op.cit.) Caldy, Wirral A 17th century windmill s.w.of settlement. (Historic Settlement Characterisation Survey 2011 Carrington, Bowden Windmill cited in Dodgson: Place Names of Cheshire The Church opposite the windmill' (Rootweb: Cheshire, Carrington.) Handbridge, Chester An 1801 sketch (very faint) by Joseph Turner of the R.Dee at Chester. Shows livestock by the river and a windmill on the right… (www.tate.org.uk/turner) Hoole, Chester The western boundary of Town Field was formed by Windmill Lane or Besom Lane, later Victoria Road… In the 13th century a path which gave access to the abbot of Chester's windmill and extended to Flooker's Brook to land belonging to the abbot.' (E.M.Lewis and A.T.Thacker, A History of the County of Chester, Vol.5(1) Chorlton, Backford,Chester the following sums issuing from lands therein… 2l.14s8d for the windmill and lands thereto attached.' (Monasticum Anglicacum.p.379,1819 Christleton, Chester In 1567,this windmill was said to have been tenanted by Thomas Ball, then aged 60…A huge granary was situated on the corner of Windmill Lane. (Christleton,The History of a Cheshire Village,1979 Darebury, Runcorn A royal windmill inherited and sold by James I was sited east of Runcorn Hill. A horse‐mill inherited by James I and a watermill he held at Dukinfield in 1605' (Cheshire Historic Towns Survey:Runcorn and Halton, 2003) Halton Estate Survey of 1296 includes a horse mill.In a 1307 survey it lists 4 mills. (Daniel King,et.al. The History of Cheshire, Vol.2,1778) Dodleston, Chester O.S. Landranger Map shows a mill mound. Also,record in Chester District Local Plan Lists (2006) Eastham, Wirral In 1591, Thomas Sparks wills his windmill to his son, Thomas who then wills it to Robert Sparks in 1624 (Hewitt, medieval Cheshire: An Economic and Social History,1929) Eaton, Chester Windmill Mound Cheshire West and Chester, District Local Plan,2015 Farndon, Chester In 1735 Estate map shows the site of an old brewery and the windmill presumably occupied a position on Windmill Flatts. Latham, History of Farndon 1981 Hampton, Malpas A windmill recorded in the 14th century documents while a lease of 1659 refers to 'that part of the Milne Field…where several milnes now erected by the Lord Cholmondley and called the Milne Banl.' (Cheshire Archaelogy.org.uk: Malpas.) Possibe windmill site: 'Two large sandstone bases, carefully levelled. Area immediately to the north of the site has been levelled in recent times to fill a small pond.' (Cheshire Archaeology Bulletin:1984/85 Haslington, Crewe A windmill situated in the s.e.corner of the site, a windmill for grinding corn and a watermill. old to Joseph Whalley, a miller in1769…sold to Samuel Scott; 1783‐84 John Smith and John Smith Jnr owners. In 1814, Samuel Scott owner and leased to (Colin Lythgoe, Winterley Mill and Pool, 2013) Higher Whitley, Warrington The windmill and watermill have gone.' (www. Cobley‐history.co.uk.) Irby, Wirral Last remaining oeg mill.Possibly destroyed in 173. Another windmill on a nearby site but after successive storm damage pulled down in 1898.' (E.M.Abraham op.cit (photo p.216) Irby Mill probably built by Richard and Ann Hale.' Their farmhouse nearby has a plaque dated 1694.' Mill demolished in 1847. www.Historic Society of lancashire and Cheshire.org. uk) Kingsley, Frodsham Photograph of windmill c.1880. Appears to becomplet Sandstone tower, white‐washed. Disused late 1885 (Cheshire Image Bank) Lower Whitley, Warrington In the time of Henry VII, Alice wife of Richard Venables had for her dower…two messuages, one watermill, one windmill. (Whitley Village Website) Windmill built in 1770's. William Gibson owned the watermill, windmill, Crowton Mill and a large corn warehouse, After changing ownership a few times it became Crofton Lodge, a residential property (William Gibson, 'Kingsley' diary notes 1955 Macclesfield, Macclesfield Windmill (SJ937 767) and a wharf on the canal at SJ 931 768 (Owen Ashmore, Industrial Archaeology of North‐West England) Malpas, Malpas More connecttions between the villagers and the windmills is evident in another Cholmondley documen which shows more than one windmill was erected in the field in Tilston Road, opposite the entrance to Overton Lane, in the 17th century. This fiels became known as Windy Milne Banke.' Mr. Hayns says that beteen 1850 and 1880 the street appears to have been known as both Windmill Street and High Street. The last use of the name of Windmill Street of which he is aware was in the 1881 Census Enumerators Returns. (Chester Chronicle newspare 2006 Manley, Frodsham Site of a windmill. 'An old mill' recorded on Burdett's Map of 1777. Tithe Map also shows a windmill site across the road from Manley Hall, near Rookery Farm. Neston, Wirral All that remains of Neston Mill is the white‐washed brick tower of the 18th century.' Worked until about 1885 (E.M.Abraham op.cit.) Newhall, Nantwich The lords of Audley built a tower house (pelee tower) around 1227. The site of the tower or maybe the tower itself may have been used as a windmill.' (Cheshire Historic Environment Record, Monument details: Newhall manor.) At some point the round tower on the mound was replaced by a windmill ( a supplement to a major watermill.' (Newhall Manor Tower on www.gatehouse‐gazetteer) Norbury, Knutsford a windmill north of Norbury houses' (www.warfordhistory.co.uk) Norton, Runcorn The sandstone ridge of Windmill Hill formed a spine along the central axis of the manor. On the hill was the medieval windmill…most of the grain processed at prior watermill or at the mill on Windmill Hill. (J.Patrick Greene, Norton Priory, Archaeology of a Medieval Religious House,2006) Oxton, Wirral Peg mill destroyed in a storm in the 1840's (E.M Abraham op.cit.) A windmill is recorded in the fourteenth century.' (Merseyside Historic Project 2011 Peckforton, Bunbury Footprint of windmill on Tithe Map, Plot 27 Poulton, Wirral A few large stones are all that remains. Pulled down nearly a century ago (1820?). Possibly a slittin mill. Situated on Wallasey Pool; it may have been a tidal mill.' (E.M.Abraham, op.cit) Preston‐on‐the‐Hill, Runcorn 'Windmill Lane led to a windmill, now under the M56 motorway (SJ 570 812).' Parish Council contact Rainow, Macclesfield 'Windmill built by Charles Roe in 1758 to grind copper ore.' (Grace's Guide to British Industrial History) Charles Roe from 1758 t0 c1801 used copper ore from Alderley Edge and Parys Mountain, Anglesey.