Monument record 1482/1 - Former post medieval windmill

Earthwork of windmill mound, now destroyed. 1947 aerial photos show a circular mound 15m in diameter, with a surrounding ditch.

{1} Site of Windmill (SP 76815455) lies in the E of the parish on top of a NE-projecting spur of Upper Lias Clay at 94 m. above OD. Air photographs taken in 1947 show a well-marked mound, some 15 m. in diam. with a surrounding ditch. By 1966 the mound had been completely destroyed and only a circular cropmark 20 m. across shows on air photographs of that date. Nothing remains on the ground. A little to the E (SP 76905456) is a circular patch of limestone rubble associated with large quantities of C18th and C19th pottery but these finds are not related to the windmill which had certainly disappeared by 1723. In 1815 the area was called Mill Closes.

{2}The windmill had gone by 1723.

{3} Fieldname: Mill Closes.

{4} Fieldname: Mill Bank.

{5} Cropmark of a small sub-circular enclosure c.20m in diameter, possibly a mill site. Info: G.Foard 1984. NCCAP:SP7654/001.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.123/Site 10 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> 1723, Map of Courteenhall?, (unchecked) (Map). SNN19127.

<3> 1815, Courteenhall Enclosure Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN19117.

<4> 1932, Fieldnames Overlays (general-needs sorting out into OS quarter sheets), (unchecked) (Map). SNN10076.

<5> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, A/P (Fairey Surveys Ltd 6565, 1804 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<6> Royal Air Force, 1940s, RAF Vertical Aerial Photographs, RAF VAP CPE/UK/1926, 5021-3 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN105266.

Record last edited

Feb 4 2025 7:59PM