Monument record 0426000000 - TURWESTON MILL

Summary

Windmill recorded in seventeenth century documentary sources and eighteenth and nineteenth century maps. The remains of the 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).

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WINDMILL (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1799 AD)
PLATFORM (Post-Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1798 AD)

Description

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).

Sources (12)

<1>SBC6714 Map: Thomas Jefferys. 1770. [Map of] The County of Buckingham. Printed map. Linen. 1 inch:1 mile.
<2>SBC1967 Map: Andrew Bryant. 1825. Map of the County of Buckinghamshire. Printed map. Linen. 1.5 inches:1 mile.
<3>SBC10495 Map: OS 2-INCH DRAFT MAP C.1822.
<4>SBC12386 Bibliographic reference: POSSE COMITATUS 1798 (MS AT BRO REF L/P/15-16).
<5>SBC15183 Bibliographic reference: TURWESTON GLEBE TERRIER (AT BRO REF D/A/GT BOX9).
<6>SBC10264 Map: OS 1880/1885 1ST EDITION 1:10560 MAP.
<7>SBC15898 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 4 P251.
<8>SBC5456 Unpublished document: FREESE S 1946 MS NOTES.
<9>SBC26096 Digital archive: BRITISH LIBRARY. 2023. Boyce. 1814. Ordnance Surveyor Drawing 2 inches to 1 mile (1:31,680) scale - Stony Stratford (OSD 229). Date Accessed 27-SEP-2022.
<10>SBC25776 Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 25 inch (1:2500) scale map. Map. Buckinghamshire Sheet X11.3, 1882.
<11>SBC26205 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2023. RAF-106G-UK-1380 RP 3063 09-APR-1946.
<12>SBC25062 Digital archive: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LiDAR data. LIDAR SP63NW Environment Agency National LIDAR Programme DTM 1 Metre dated 2019 SP6036.

Location

Grid reference	SP 60480 36850 (point)
Civil Parish	TURWESTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Event - Survey: Aerial investigation and mapping project (Ref: 7768) (EBC18304)

Record last edited

Jul 4 2023 10:19AM