Ellis' Windmill

Ellis' Windmill

Ellis' Windmill
Mill Road
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN1 3JJ

Tel: 01522 528 448
Fax: 01522 521 264
E-Mail: lincolnshirelife_museum@lincolnshire.gov.uk

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About Ellis' Windmill

This wonderful mill is located on Mill Road behind the museum, so called due to the nine windmills that formerly faced west over the steep slopes of the Lincoln Edge. Ellis's Mill is now the sole survivor of these mills.
Ellis' Mill is an excellent surviving example of a small tower mill and dates from 1798. There has been a mill on this site from at least the middle of the 17th century.
The first recorded owner of the mill was a wealthy landowner named Anthony Meres. It went through a succession of owners until December 1894 when John Ellis bought the mill for £250. He died in 1920, but his wife and son successively retained ownership until 1973.
The mill was worked until the 1940s when the machinery was removed and it fell into dereliction. Tragedy struck further when a fire finally destroyed all of the remaining woodwork in 1974.
The Lincoln Civic Trust acquired the Mill in March 1977 and set about its restoration. First, the tower was cleaned and the floors and cap re-constructed. It was then necessary for replacement parts to be found that fitted the dimensions of the existing tower.
The cap mechanism was acquired from 'Subscription Mill' in Sturton-by-Stow, the stones and drives from 'Eno's Mill' at Toynton-all-Saints. The sails and fantail were built and er