"The Fylde coast used to be known as 'Windmill Land' for a very good reason. The Fylde has a major natural resource - the wind - which was why there were so many windmills around the coast before coal put them out of business.
There were at one time over 40 windmills, watermills and post (peg) mills in the Fylde and Over Wyre.
was built on what is now Lytham Green in 1805, it was worked until 1919. A "Windy Milne", shows on a fragment of a 17th century plan clearly having a post mill standing
between Lytham Hall and St Cuthbert's Church.
Damside
Windmill ~ in Pilling was built to replace a wooden post mill. It was built in 1808 by Ralph Slate whom also built Clifton and Thornton Mills. It was built on a reed bed and has a lower course of sandstone which is surmounted by bricks. It is 30 foot in diameter at the base tapering to 17 feet at the curb.It had two double shuttered sails and two common sails that turned in anti-clockwise direction. The mill was the tallest in the Fylde.
Little Marton
Windmill ~ was recorded on Yates map of 1786 as a post mill. The land was owned by the Clifton Estate. John Talbot Clifton - decided to dispose of the land at Little Marton, Cornelius Bagot bought the mill in 1922 with the surrounding fields and the miller’s cottage. The Bagot’s also lived for a long time in Grahams House on the opposite side of the road to the mill (sadly it lies in ruins now) it was originally the Old Coaching House, an Inn for weary travellers on the old Roman Road that went to Kirkham. Evidence a windmill stood on same site in 1665
Clifton tower ~ converted and now run as pub and restaurant. Built around 1778 Clifton Windmill is the Fylde’s tallest and oldest windmill.Until relatively recently, a fully working corn mill. Believed to be the second tallest windmill of it’s type in England, there are six floors in total.
Great Singleton
Windmill ~ demolished.
Kirkham
Windmill ~ Carr Hill tower was built in
1812 on an old Roman site. Now converted in to a house.
Staining
Windmill ~ there is a 200-year-old example, originally used to grind corn is now converted to a house.
Thornton Windmill ~ Marsh Mill built 1794 now fully restored
Weeton
Windmill ~ Weeton Vilage is recorded as 'widerun' in the Domesday Book of 1086 means a settlement where willow trees grow. The village is one of the smallest villages in rural Fylde. A village of whitewash, thatch and a windmill ruin built 1812.Weeton Windmill ~ as it looks now.
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