Monument record 398/1/1 - Medieval/Post Medieval Windmill Mound

Post medieval windmill mound remains and the possible site of a medieval windmill.

{1} Fieldname: Windmill Close.

{2} Windmill mound (SP 54116527),S of Braunston village on the S side of the old Daventry Road on the summit of a NW-facing spur at 135m above OD.The low mound,which is 15m in diameter 0.5m high and surrounded by a ditch 0.25m deep,is almost certainly the site of a former windmill for in 1785 the small field in which it lay was known as Windmill Close though no windmill existed there at the time.It is probably the site of the manorial mill of the deserted village of Braunstonbury in whose land it lies.

{3} NCCAP: SP5465/002-3.

<1> 1785, Estate Map of Braunston, (unchecked) (Map). SNN9436.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.23 Site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<3> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<4> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, AP (RAF VAP CPE/UK/1994,4276-7) (Photographs). SNN104890.

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Feb 4 2025 7:20PM