Monument record 0536001000 - PITSTONE QUARRY Windmill Mound

Summary

Site of a small windmill mound and close noted in historic sources from 1856

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • WINDMILL MOUND (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Enclosure map of 1856 shows a small windmill mound and close in the possesion of Mr A Meacher, no mill is named or shown (4). A witness remembers the mill mound being ploughed out. The mound was at NGR now destroyed by quarrying (6)

Sources (6)

  • <1>SBC12281 Map: PITSTONE ESTATE MAP C1809 (AT BRO REF MA/166/3).
  • <2>SBC12283 Map: PITSTONE PARISH MAP C1837 (AT BRO REF MA/250/3R).
  • <3>SBC12284 Map: PITSTONE TITHE MAP 1841 (AT BRO REF 308).
  • <4>SBC12282 Map: PITSTONE INCLOSURE MAP 1856 (AT BRO REF IR/76.2).
  • <5>SBC9580 Unpublished document: MS NOTES OF S FREESE 1946.
  • <6>SBC6180 Verbal communication: HAWKINS J, 1983 PERS COMM/ARP 1983(OCT) FIELD VISIT/ OS MAP 1879 25IN, 1ST EDN/.

Location

Grid reference SP 93550 15000 (point)
Civil Parish PITSTONE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: (EBC13507)

Record last edited

Oct 4 2004 11:35AM

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