Monument record MLI124972 - Site of Bilsby Mill
Summary
The site of Bilsby Mill, a post mill of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, no longer extant.
Type and Period (1)
- WINDMILL (Post Medieval - 1786 AD? to 1860 AD?)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
A post mill, marked as Bilsby Mill, is depicted on the Ordnance Surveyor's drawing dated 1819 at the western edge of the parish. {1}
This mill was in the ownership of John Pinney between 1786 and 1820. {2}
In White's 1856 Directory, Robert Pinney is noted as a miller and baker in Bilsby, one of two millers and bakers listed. The Pinney family may have continued to use the post mill even though they owned the tower mill in Bilsby village (see PRN41488). They sold the tower mill to Thomas Flintoft in 1855. {2}{3}
The mill is no longer marked on the first edition OS map surveyed in 1887, although an adjacent property called Mill House is marked. It seems likely that the mill probably disappeared in the 1860s or the 1870s. {4}
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SLI13883 Website: British Library. 2011->. Ordnance Survey Drawings. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/ordsurvdraw/index.html. Alford sheet.
- <2> SLI14563 Report: Jon A. Sass. 2014. Tower Mill, Bilsby. pp.2-5.
- <3> SLI886 Bibliographic Reference: William White. 1856. History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p.499.
- <4> SLI9454 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883-1888. 6 Inch County Series Map - First Edition. 1:10560. sheet 46/15.
Map
Location
Grid reference | TF 4616 7533 (point) |
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Civil Parish | BILSBY, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Sep 26 2023 10:18AM
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