Monument record 3978/1 - Windmill, Possibly Post Medieval/Modern

{1} A windmill existed in the main manor from at least 1262 and the manor still included a windmill in 1701. This is depicted in 1791 on Eayre's map on the hill to the south of the Hall Mill, in the area later occupied by the Windmill Cottages, where an earthwork still existed in the 1880s. There is no evidence to locate the medieval windmill but it probably lay on this site, and it was certainly here in the early 17th century for Rothwell Bridge is described in 1608 as leading to the windmill. By 1827 a second mill had been constructed to the south of that on Windmill Hill, but this had disappeared totally by the 1880s. Another windmill is recorded by Eayre to the east of the town but it is clear from Bryant's map of 1827 that this lay just lie within Rushton township. The primary windmill earthworks and probably all the buried remains were destroyed by the construction of Windmill Cottages in the 19th century and so the site does not have significant archaeological potential.

<1> Foard G, 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Rothwell (Medieval and Post Medieval), (checked) (Digital archive). SNN100514.

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Sep 20 2007 11:25AM