Little Marton Mill
Little Marton Mill | |||||||
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Mill location | Blackpool, Lancashire | ||||||
Grid reference | SD 349,341 | ||||||
Coordinates | 53°47′57″N 2°59′23″W / 53.7991°N 2.9898°WCoordinates: 53°47′57″N 2°59′23″W / 53.7991°N 2.9898°W | ||||||
Year built | 1838 | ||||||
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Purpose | Corn mill | ||||||
Type | Tower mill | ||||||
Storeys | Four | ||||||
Number of sails | Four | ||||||
Fantail blades | Eight | ||||||
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Little Marton Mill is a 19th-century English tower windmill in Marton, now part of Blackpool, Lancashire. It was built in 1838 by John Hays for grinding corn, and worked until 1928. It has been designated a Grade II listed building by Historic England.[1]
History and assessment
Little Marton Mill was built in 1838 by millwright John Hays for John Whalley, on the site of a previous mill.[2][3] It was once one of several gristmills in the area, and is the last remaining of perhaps four mills that once stood within the current boundaries of Blackpool.[4] The hamlet of Little Marton was part of the township of Marton which, by the end of the 19th century, was incorporated into Blackpool and St Anne's-on-the-Sea.[5] Marton had a watermill until the mid-18th century, and another wind-powered gristmill up to the late 19th century, both at Great Marton.[4] Little Marton Mill was later worked by a miller named Cornelius Bagot.[2] It stopped working in September 1928.[6] Bagot restored the mill and in 1937 gave it to the Allen Clarke Memorial Fund as a memorial to local teacher, writer and windmill enthusiast C. Allen Clarke (1863–1935).[2][7] The mill was extensively renovated in 1987 at a cost of £88,000.[2]
Little Marton Mill is situated on a green, close to the M55 motorway and is a familiar landmark on this major route into the seaside resort.[2][8] Historic England designated the windmill a Grade II listed building on 20 October 1983.[1] The Grade II designation—the lowest of the three grades—is for buildings that are "nationally important and of special interest".[9]
Structure
Little Marton Mill is of a typical style for windmills built in the Fylde. On four storeys (including a basement), it has a circular plan and a broad base in proportion to its height. It is constructed of stuccoed, whitewashed brick.[1][8] On the exterior wall there is a commemorative plaque to local writer Allen Clarke.[2] The mill is entered through double doors (at basement level) to the east, and a single door to the west.[1] There are square windows at the first, second and third storeys.[1]
Typically for Fylde windmills, the cap (replaced in 1987) is boat-shaped.[1][2] There are four sails and a fantail with eight blades. The machinery is incomplete as some of it is now at Lytham Windmill.[2]
See also
References
- Footnotes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Little Marton Mill", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 25 June 2011
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dunkerley, Paul, "Little Marton Mill", Engineering Timelines, retrieved 25 June 2011
- ↑ Lancashire County Council & Egerton Lea Consultancy (2005), p. 3
- 1 2 Lancashire County Council & Egerton Lea Consultancy (2005), p. 25
- ↑ Farrer & Brownbill (1912), pp. 239–242
- ↑ Her Majesty's Stationery Office, p. 132
- ↑ Berry, Mark (25 May 2011). "Little Marton windmill, Lancashire". Windmill World. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- 1 2 Hartwell & Pevsner, p. 163
- ↑ "Listed Buildings", National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 13 June 2011
- Sources
- Lancashire County Council and Egerton Lea Consultancy (April 2005), "Blackpool Historic Town Assessment Report" (PDF), Lancashire Historic Town Survey Programme, Lancashire County Council Environment Directorate, retrieved 25 October 2010
- Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1912), "Townships — Marton", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7, Constable, OCLC 59626695
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969]. Lancashire: North. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-12667-0.
- Agriculture, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 63, 1957, OCLC 1478576 Missing or empty
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External links
- Media related to Little Marton Mill at Wikimedia Commons
- Friends of Little Marton Windmill