{"id":936,"date":"2011-12-27T22:14:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crowle.org\/?p=936"},"modified":"2016-01-19T21:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:35:52","slug":"wind-mills-in-crowle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"Wind Mills in Crowle"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were four separate mills on Mill Road and a further mill on Godknow Road.<\/p>\n

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Stamford Mercury – Friday 06 June 1845<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stamford Mercury – Friday 22 February 1850<\/p><\/div>\n

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Godknow Road Mill<\/h1>\n

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1891 <\/strong>Peter Cranidge, Occupation, Miller, 1891 – Godknow Road, Crowle, Lincolnshire, (1891 Census)<\/p>\n

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Place: South Mill, Crowle, Lincolnshire, England<\/p>\n

Creator: photographer : Muggeridge, Donald William, Mr., b.1918
\nDate: 31.5.1947
\nDescription: Black and white negative and print made from it of South Mill, a tower mill in Crowle, Lincolnshire, taken on 31st May 1947, by which time it was capless.<\/p>\n

Used by courtesy of the University of Kent. http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/specialcollections\/mills\/r.php\/25131\/show.html<\/p>\n

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God now Road Windmill on the 1911 Tax Assessment Map.<\/p>\n

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Mill Road Mills<\/h1>\n

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The 1738 Manorial Plan shows two mills on Mill Road – both at the top of the hill. One on the site of Kingsthorpe Villa and a second mill a short distance to the west of the mill. The mills were known as the East and West Mills.<\/p>\n

At the time of the 1738 survey the mills were both the property of Mrs Barton, Parsonage Freehold – as distinct from the Vicarage.<\/p>\n

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Wind Mills on Mill Road 1893<\/p><\/div>\n

First Mill on Mill Road<\/h1>\n

This mill was located to the left of the road just before the Cemetery. A bungalow now occupies the site. The miller’s house still remains but uninhabited.<\/p>\n

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<1802 <\/strong>James Turner
\n1802<\/strong>\u00a0John Hind, of Epworth – Bought the mill from \u00a0Mr James Turner.\u00a0http:\/\/crowle.org\/?p=1281
\n1853\u00a0<\/strong>In 1853 the when it passed to Anderson and his brothers the mill is described as being a \u201cPlot of land in Crowle field, marked as 42 on the enclosure map and known as Mill Close and also Brick Smock Corn windmill with Stable and Buildings\u201d2.<\/p>\n

Subsequently sold to Elijah Fillingham<\/p>\n

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Pinfold Corner<\/p><\/div>\n

The wind mill can be seen in this photo of the Baptist chapel.<\/p>\n

It appears that by 1921 this mill (though could possibly be another) was no longer in use as the following advert appeared in the Crowle Advertiser.<\/p>\n

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Crowle Advertiser January 15 1921<\/p><\/div>\n

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Crowle Windmill<\/p><\/div>\n

Creator: photographer : Muggeridge, Donald William, Mr., b.1918
\nDate: 31.5.1947
\nDescription: Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower mill by the railway in Crowle, Lincolnshire, taken on 31st May 1947.<\/p>\n

Used by courtesy of the University of Kent. http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/specialcollections\/mills\/r.php\/25130\/show.html<\/p>\n

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Second Mill on Mill Road<\/h1>\n
\u00a0This was located on the left had side of the road just after the cemetery.<\/div>\n
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West Mill<\/h1>\n
\u00a0This was located on the left hand side of the road at the top of the hill just before the present site \u00a0of Kingsthorpe Villa and is one of the two mills shown on the Manorial Plan of 1738<\/div>\n
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Windmills, Mill Road, 1738 Note North is to the left which is as the plan was drawn. At the time of the 1738 survey the mills were both the property of Mrs Barton, Parsonage Freehold \u2013 as distinct from the Vicarage.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Reference Name MISC DON 615\/18<\/h2>\n

Of the succession in real property of George William Couch of Gunness, farm servant, and Ada Sophia Hayes (wife of William Hayes of Crowle) upon the death of Sarah Couch on 19 Mar 1884, daughter of Thomas Couch – messuage or post corn windmill and 3r. 24p. of land called “West Mill” in Crowle, numbered 24 on the enclosure allotment plan, being partly freehold and partly copyhold, listing incumbrances of five legacies charged on the property.<\/p>\n

Date:\u00a0<\/strong>7 May 1888<\/p>\n

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East Mill (Also known as Kings Mill and White Mill)<\/h1>\n
\u00a0This was located on the left hand side of the road at the top of the hill on the site of Kingsthorpe Villa. This was the second mill that was depicted on the Manorial Plan of 1738.<\/div>\n
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Summary of an abstract of title to the two mills was drawn up in 1839 for sale of the property by John Bentley to be sold to Mr David Holmes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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    It would appear that around 1758 Thomas Bentley built a third wind mill in Crowle. <\/span>
    The owners of the East and West Mill at that time were the daughters of Richard Popplewell of Temple Belwood. If I’ve understood it correctly Mrs Barton who owned both mills in 1738 was his wife and had pre-deceased him. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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    It would appear that to protect their interests they sued Thomas Bentley describing their mills as “which said 2 mills had for time out of mind been (& then ought to be) the only corn mills in the Parish of Crowle.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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    To settle this lawsuit in 1760 Thomas agreed to buy the East Mill, commonly called the Kings Mill from Alan Johnson and Katharine, his wife (one of the daughters of Richard Popplewell) for \u00a3200 and an agreement to demolish his new mill.<\/span>

    In 1770 Thomas bought the West Mill from Robert Steer and Elizabeth (The other daughter of Richard Popplewell) for a consideration of \u00a3170.<\/span>

    In 1772 Thomas passed the two mills onto his son John in consideration of 10s and his love and affection etc.<\/span>

    1n 1780 the probate document indicates that John left the mills and a cottage in the north end of Crowle where his father had lived, to his son John on attaining the age of 21 years. This document describes the East Mill as also being called the White Mill.<\/span>

    1822 Allotment of the mill and land under the enclosures act.<\/span>

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    There were four separate mills on Mill Road and a further mill on Godknow Road.       Godknow Road Mill Millers; 1891 Peter Cranidge, Occupation, Miller, 1891 – Godknow Road, Crowle, Lincolnshire, (1891 Census) Place: South Mill, Crowle, Lincolnshire, England Creator: photographer : Muggeridge, Donald William, Mr., b.1918 Date: 31.5.1947 Description: Black and white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-mills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}