List of windmills in Lancashire

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This list of Lancashire windmills names the well-known Lancashire windmills , including those that are now within Greater Manchester and Merseyside .

The names of mills still standing today and known years of construction are written in bold.

location	Name of the mill	Type	Year of first mention or construction	Year of last mention or demolition	photo
Aughton	Aughton Mill	buried post mill
Barton-upon-Irwell			1600	1600
Bickerstaffe	Bickerstaffe Mill location	Tower windmill	1756
Billinge	Billinge Mill		1641	1691
Birkdale	Birkdale Mill	buried post mill	around 16th century	Mentioned in 1845
Boothstown			Mid 18th century	Demolished in 1874
Bretherton	Bank Mill location	Tower windmill	1741
Burscough	Mere Mill location	Tower windmill
Carleton	Dick's Mill	Tower windmill		Demolished in 1886
Clifton	Clifton Mill location	Tower windmill
Culcheth			1516	1593
Freckleton		Dutchman - sawmill
Golborne			1352	1367
Great Crosby	Moor Lane Mill location	Tower windmill	1813
Haigh	Brewery Mill location	Tower windmill	1845
Hambleton		Post mill	1870s	demolished before 1934
Ince			1558	1558
Kirkham	Carr Hill Mill location	Tower windmill
Kirkham	Real mill location	Tower windmill	late 18th century
Little Marton	Little Marton Mill location	Tower windmill	1838
Liverpool	Wavertree Mill	Post mill (Midlands type)	1452	Demolished in 1916
Liverpool	Edge Hill Mill	Post mill	1642	1642
Liverpool	Eastham Mill		1250	Destroyed May 1644
Liverpool	Cathedral Mount
Liverpool	Hale Mill	Post mill		1790 moved to Hale Bank
Liverpool	Hale Bank Mill	Post mill	1790
Liverpool	Townsend Mill		1348
Liverpool	Townsend Mill	Post mill (Midlands type)	1644	1772
Liverpool	Gallows Mill	Tower windmill	1825
Liverpool	Gallows Mill (second mill)	Tower windmill	1825
Liverpool	Chisenhale Street	Tower windmill	1814
Liverpool	Chisenhale Street (second mill)	Tower windmill	1814
Liverpool	Preston Road Mill	Tower windmill		Still standing in 1936
Liverpool	St James's Park	Tower windmill	1773	passed before 1889
Liverpool	Stanley Park		1823
Liverpool	Springfield Mill	Tower windmill	1823	1907
Liverpool	Parliament Street		passed before 1889
Liverpool	Bootle Lane			Burned down in 1834
Longton				Still standing in 1916
Lydiate	Forest's Mill location	Tower windmill	1768
Lytham St Annes	Lytham Mill location	Tower windmill	1803
Maghull				Still standing in 1916
Manchester	Deansgate		1771
Manchester	Windmill Street		1766	1811
Much hoole				Still standing in 1916
Ormskirk	Wimbrick Mill			Still standing in 1916
Parbold	Parbold Mill location	Tower windmill	1810
Pilling	Damside Mill location	Tower windmill	1808
Preesall	Preesall Mill location	Tower windmill	1839
Prescot	Acres Mill	Tower windmill		Burned down on August 9, 1908
Preston	Craggs Row Mill location	Tower windmill	early 19th century
Preston	Park Lane Mill			Still standing in 1916
Rimington	Stopper Lane Mill	Dutch windmill
Rufford	Causeway End Mill	Tower windmill		1947 still standing
Rufford		Post mill (Midlands type)		1771 moved to Warton
Salford			1380	1380
Singleton	Singleton Mill	Tower windmill		1947 still standing
Southport		iron titt wind turbine	1894
Staining	Staining Mill location	Tower windmill	late 18th century
St Helens	Ravenhead Mill location	Tower windmill	late 18th century
Southport		Tower windmill
Southport		Titt pinwheel	1894
Tarleton				Still standing in 1916
Thornton Cleveleys	Marsh Mill location	Tower windmill	1794
Toxteth	Scott's Mill Wilson’s Mill	Tower windmill		demolished around 1960
Upholland	Holland Mill location	Tower windmill	1768
Warton	Warton Mill location	buried post mill (Midlands type)	1771
West Derby			1229	1256
West Derby	Acker's Mill		1717	1717
Wrea Green	Wrea Green Mill location	Tower windmill
Wrightington	Harrock Hill Mill location	Tower windmill
Weeton	Weeton Mill	Tower windmill	1812	1947 still standing

literature

• Allen Clarke: Windmill Land . JM Dent & Sons, London 1916.
• Allen Clarke: More Windmill Land . JM Dent & Sons, London 1918.
• Allen Clarke: Windmill Land Stories . JM Dent & Sons, London 1924.

Web links

Windmills of Lancashire. In: Windmill World. Retrieved October 26, 2014 (list of windmills still in existence today). 

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Rex Wailes : The English Windmill . Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Henley on Thames 1977, ISBN 0-7100-2241-7 , pp. 52, 84, 110, 145, 157, 168.
2. ↑ ^{a b} BARTON . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
3. ↑ ^{a b} BILLINGE . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
4. ^ ^{A b} Peter Aughton: North Meols and Southport . Carnegie, 1998, ISBN 0-948789-38-7 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Windmills and Cotton Mills . The Boothstown website. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
6. ^ ^{A b} R Thurston Hopkins: Old Watermills and Windmills . Philip Allan & Co Ltd, London 1934, p. 39.
7. ↑ ^{a b} CULCHETH . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
8. ↑ ^{a b} GOLBORNE . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
9. ↑ WINDMILL, MOOR LANE (north side), CROSBY, SEFTON, MERSEYSIDE . English Heritage. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 19, 2008. 
10. ↑ Rodney de Little: The Windmills of England . Colwood Press, Partridge Green 1997, p106, ISBN 0-952-9930-0 7 .
11. ↑ ^{a b} INCE . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
12. ↑ TREALES WINDMILL, TREALES, ROSEACRE AND WHARLES, FYLDE, LANCASHIRE . English Heritage. Archived from the original on November 10, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 28, 2008. 
13. ↑ ^{a b} CASTLE . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
14. ↑ Photo under Mill collections search: record view . University of Kent. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
15. ↑ LIVERPOOL PARKS . Liverpool Parks. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
16. ↑ ^{a b} Old Liverpool (PDF; 106 kB) Bramhill.net. Archived from the original on February 19, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
17. ↑ WALTON . British History Online. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
18. ↑ KIRKDALE . British History Online. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
19. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Allen Clarke: Windmill Land . JM Dent & Sons, London 1916. Partial online version
20. ↑ BOROUGH . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
21. ^ According to postcard published by Knowsley Library Service
22. ↑ WINDMILL, CRAGGS ROW (east side), PRESTON, PRESTON, LANCASHIRE . English Heritage. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 28, 2008. 
23. ↑ Photo under Mill collections search: record view . University of Kent. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
24. ^ ^{A b} Martin Watts, J Kenneth Major: Victorian and Edwardian Windmills and Watermills from old photographs . Batsford, London 1977, ISBN 0-7134-0621-6 .
25. ↑ ^{a b} SALFORD . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
26. ↑ Photo under Mill collections search: record view . University of Kent. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
27. ↑ STAINING WINDMILL, MILL LANE, STAINING, FYLDE, LANCASHIRE . English Heritage. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 28, 2008. 
28. ↑ PART OF NUMBERS 96 AND 98 FORMER WINDMILL TOWER, RAVENHEAD, 96 AND 98 RAVENHEAD ROAD, ST HELENS, ST HELENS, MERSEYSIDE . English Heritage. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 19, 2008. 
29. ^ J Kenneth Major: The Windmills of John Wallis Titt . The International Molinological Society, 1977, pp. 8, 30.
30. ↑ ^{a b} THE HUNDRED OF WEST DERBY . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
31. ↑ ^{a b} WEST DERBY . British History Online. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
32. ↑ Photo under Mill collections search: record view . University of Kent. Retrieved October 26, 2014.