Monument record 0426000000 - TURWESTON MILL

1788, C.1822, 1825 MAPS: 'TURWESTON MILL' (WINDMILL) APPROX AT NGR (B1-3).
POSSE COMITATUS: WINDMILL NOT IN REPAIR FOR 2 YEARS (B4).
'OLD WINDMILL HILL' (B5).
'WINDMILL' AT NGR (B6).
C17 REF TO OLD WINDMILL HILL ETC AND EXISTING WINDMILL (B7).
OPEN POST MILL, 4 CLOTH SAILS, TAILPOLE. NO WINCH. TARRED (B8).

The remains of a post medieval windmill platform is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located on a field boundary about 470 metres E of Glebe Farm and centred at SP 60480 36851, a trapezoidal platform was the hedged enclosure in which the windmill was constructed and is about 35 metres x 26 metres at its widest, with a 2 metres wide ditch flanking the west and south facing sides. Identified as ‘Turweston Mill’ on the 1814 Ordnance Surveyors Drawing and as a windmill on the 1885 dated 1st Edition OS map, though the map symbology suggests that the windmill structure was not standing by that time. Other than its enclosure, no evidence of the windmill can be seen in the historic aerial photographs available to the project, nor on remote sensing data collected in 2019 (9-12).