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Encyclopedia > Wilton Windmill

The Wilton windmill is a five floor brick tower mill with a round house located near the villages of Wilton and Great Bedwyn in the southern English county of Wiltshire. It was built in 1821 because the construction of the Kennet and Avon Canal had included the canalisation of the River Bedwyn which had previously powered several water mills in the area.


The windmill was in use for a century, into the 1920s. In 1971 it was purchased by the Wiltshire County Council who leased it to the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust. The trust restored the mill to working condition, and by the end of the summer in 1976 the windmill was once again making flour.


Location

Grid reference: SU275615 (http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&gazString=SU275615)


Nearby towns and cities: Hungerford, Marlborough, Newbury, Swindon


Nearby villages: Wilton, East Grafton, Great Bedwyn, Burbage, Shalbourne


Nearby places of interest: Crofton Pumping Station


External link

  • Wilton Windmill (http://www.arsharpe.co.uk/wiltonWindmill/)

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Wilton, a town near Salisbury in the county of Wiltshire.
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BBC - Wiltshire - Villages - From Sheaf to Loaf in a Day (414 words)
Wilton Windmill, now the only working windmill in Wessex, is operated by the Wilton Windmill Society, which exists to maintain the windmill in working order, and to keep it open to the public - especially to parties from local schools.
Wilton Windmill lies beyond Wilton village, a mile and a half from the A338 Hungerford-Burbage road at East Grafton.
Wilton Windmill was built in 1821 as a replacement for the seven watermills lost when the Kennet and Avon Canal was completed.
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