Extracts from Dorset Mill Index at Dorset History Centre (former CRO)
From : Dorset County Record Office, Dorchester (RC May 1996)
Ref : Dorset Mill Index (134 pages ref RON 19/3)
Selected extracts only :
Affpuddle - 1749 ref D/FRA:L1 (watermill)
Broadmayne - farm of the mill 16s in 1346 (Fry Dor Inq PM's No 415)
Buckhorn Weston : FlourMill - Curia Regis Roll 1267 Claims "one windmill in Weston as her dower"
Canford Magna : Paper & Flour Mill
Letters & opinion concerning erection of windmill in manor of Canford & on Poole mudflats 1791/2 (Ref D.1/9433 a-h)
Letters about Tullock's Windmill 1793 (ref D.1/9433)
Bedmill - situated NW of Bedmill copse OS 6" Sheet XI NE
Chaldon Herring
Uno molinus reddens 10s - Domesday Eyton pp141/2
A mill (in Charmedon) 1277 (Frys Dor Records Vol 5 feet of fines p32)
Adam Harang v Abbot of Bynindon "that he permits his vileins of Chalvedon &
Forteshill to do suit at Adam's mill at Tadenhole" (De Banco Roll 42 9 Ed1 - Frys Transs
Vol G2 p377)
Child Okeford Flour mill
Moiety of a windmill worth 6s 8d in 1284 (Frys Dor Inq PM No 374) = TO BE CHECKED
Corfe Mullen
A mill worth £2 pa in 1283 (Fry Dor Inq PM No 387) (watermill?)
Corn mill - a little NE of pumping station OS 6" sheet XXXIV SE 1904
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Cranborne
Windmills shown on 1618 map of Cranborne Chase (copy obtained) (ref P/copy 6-576)
Shows 1 windmill at Sixpenny Handley
Shows 1 at east of Shaftesbury (Gillingham forest) Dor/Wilts border
Shows 1 at west side Blandford/Salisbury road nr Stubhampton
Shows 1 "old windmill" across into Wiltshire twixt Wermere/Buckden
East Lulworth
Higher Millbourne & Lower Millbourne = names of fields Nos 111 & 115
(Survey of Lulworth Castle 1771 - ref D/WLC: E19) watermills ?
East Orchard
Mill Bush placename on site between Drove Lane & river - may indicate site of former mill (water) ???
Edmondsham Mill
Domesday (Eyton p111/2)
1 mill at Eymodesham 1293 (De Banco Roll 101) Trinity 21 Edw I (Fry Trans Vol G3 p578)
Holwell mill (water) & Rumford Mill OS 6" Sht XVI SE 1902
Lyme Regis
Grant by Edw III of licence to erect watermill on ground called La Mulehule 17 Oct 1340
(Ref DC/LR/14)
Town mill 1601 accounts etc
Middle Mill, Higher Mill disused OS 6" sht XXX SE 1929
Lytchett Matravers
Windmill Barrow NGR SY94/899821 crowned with firs - Ht 7ft frS 12ft fr N
Appropiation of barrows to later uses is shown in a variety of names, use as windmill
stead in Windmill Barrow (L12) LV Grinsell Dorset Barrows p119-59
NB RCHM disagree !!
Lytchett Minster Water Corn mill Organford OS map sheet XLIII SW 1925
Langton Matravers Windmill on C18th map (DCM)
Windmill knapp & Barn OS 6" map sheet LVI NE 1929
Milton Abbas Windmill Clump OS map 6" sheet XXXII NE 1902
Post mill of Milton Ash was monastic C15th stone carving of Post mill in south aisle. On
Irish oak screen in refectory are carved Post mill rebus of Abbot William de Middleton &
dated 1498. Stone carving of windmill with date 1515 o Manor Farm Delcombe north of
abbey (M J Way trans 1959 DCM)
Luccombe or Windmill Ashes Farm - Windmill ashes are trees on top of hill north of
this farm. Rebus of Abbot William de Middleton was a windmill with a crosier through it
on a tun. This is on the still house pulled down in 1753 & abbey barn prior to 1771 when
it was rebuilt. In several other places - Hutchins 3rd Edn Vol IV p399.
Deed - tenants corn to be ground at manor mill Cole Mill 1736 (Ref PE/Mil CW4)
Motcombe Assignment of mortgage on Windmill close at Littledown . Thos Needle,
Joseph Gray & Matthew Bowles (ref D.1/ MX : 6)
Oborne mill - water Lease 1794 - 1826/7 9 (Ref D/FFO:12/37)
Pentridge One windmill 1293 De Banco Roll 101 (Frys Trans Vol G3 pp 577/8)
Poole
Act of Parliament to erect windmill & conduit on common ground at Baiter in 1543
(D1/2482).
Shown on Isaac Taylor's map of Dorset 1765 D/WIB:P2 + Hutchins 3rd Edn Vol 1 p3
6 Windmills : (from M J Way transcrip DCM) extract only
At Hunger Hill Burial ground Towngate Street Poole - a circular slab of stone foundation
of a post mill with round house.
Baiter windmill became Town magazine in Civil War and was known as Powder House.
In 1880 converted to isolation hospital during a small pox epidemic. MJ Way
Grant of windmill at Hunger Hill to Stephen Honehyn 1445
Poole Local Archives 6 26 (4)
Letters & opinion concerning erection of windmill on mudlands within the Manor of
Canford 1791/2 ref D1/9433
Windmill on Bayter - Tenant & tenure. Terrier of lands& tenements in Poole Town
1561-1567 (Poole Borough Records photocopy 259)
Portesham Mill 1715 (Ref D1/6235) water mill
(Also looked at Tithe map of village Plot 8 (up Winters Lane) named Post Mead)
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Portland Proceedings of the Defence of County of Dorset 1799 (DCM)
CRO PC D547/1 The Angell family in Portland (south mill called Angel Mill)
(these records are not in mill index !)
15 Oct 1725 John Angell s/o Wm & Mary Angell
7 Dec 1779 Wm & Mary Angell married
14 Sept 1788 Thomas Angell s/o Wm & Mary Angell
15 Mar 1790 ?? d/o Wm & Mary
19 June 1790 John father of William died aged 70
29 Oct 1792 Wm Angell s/o John & Edith Angell
4 Aug 1804 Henry s/o Wm & Mary
Portland Verne Prison Windmill !! (Another Portland windmill !!)
Windmill used for pumping water by Portland Water Authority at Verne Citadel 1915.
Details of new parts fitted and adjustments made Feb 1915 et seq
July 1914 - Details of erection of windmill pump at Verne Citadel & arguments in
favour.
(All from Portland Water Authority Minute Books - BW/B3, B4)
Radipole Causeway Mill 1833 (D/FRA:E73)
Sandford Orcas - watermill - in Kellys 1909
Seaborough water Mill (ref D1/LM1 - 1592) a release pulled down 1772
Shaftesbury
2 mills -1646/7 (ref D/SED:8183)
2 mills - 1315 (Fry Dor Rec Vol V p278)
Antills Mill - John Hunt - party to bond 1744 (D290/F1)
Steeple Hurst Mill OS 6" sheet XLIX Se 1930
Deed 1739 (D/BOH)
Swanage
Windmill close to site of King John's Hunting Lodge on windmill hill Godlingstone
(M J Way)
Mill at Ulewell 1315 (water) on 6" OS map + Coram Regis Roll 221 m117
Frys Trans Vol 5 (3) p70
Weymouth
Reference to mill & lands in Causeway 1647/8 (Wey Bor minutes Dorset Rec Soc No 1)
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