Cashmore

Parish Gussage St Michael

O.S Grid Reference approx ST 985 138 (cropmark)

[Lat 50.9236 - Long -2.0227]

Nearest contour height 107m

Topography Good - site near top of hill

Archaeology Cropmark not excavated

Earliest Dating Map of 1807 shows mill itself.

Records Lord Portman Estate papers ? - to be checked

Documents

Maps

Early maps It is not shown on Aldwell's 1618 map

Mogg Road map 1817 :





Left : My thanks to Gwenda Yeomans of Swanage, Dorset for sending me this extract (August 2020) that shows the windmill on the track to the east of the turnpike road. (NB North is at the bottom)

Ogilby 1675 none

Taylor 1765 - no windmill shown but mounds probably being tumuli.


Tithe Map (c1840)

Gussage St Michael Tithe Apportionment Mapplot 123 = Windmill Field

Owner - Lord Portman

Occupied by John Cox Fookes (arable 40acres)

Plot 123 appears to be the site shown on the other maps.

1st Edition OS map Survey map of 1807

(forerunner to 1st Edition OS map) shows Cashmore Mill

Present OS map

Google Map :

The Windmill

The Millers Only known - John Feltham (1798)

Present site condition Arable field

Notes and comments : This small village straddles the main Blandford to Salisbury road some 7 miles north east of Blandford. The Cashmoor Inn has sadly been renamed the "Inn on the Chase" !

The 1840 Tithe Apportionment[1] shows a 40 acre arable field owned by Lord Portman named Windmill Field. This field is reached by a track shown on the tithe map and which runs off nearly parallel and rising above the level of the present main road to the 350 feet contour.

A windmill named Cashmore Mill is shown on this site on a forerunner of 1st edition 1" OS map (surveyed 1807) at the grid reference above. This mill is not shown on Aldwell's 1618 map although it does appear to show a mill at nearby Sixpenny Handley to the north west. Mogg’s Road map of 1817 clearly shows the mill in the same location.

The Salisbury Journal of 9th April 1798 records an advertisement for a miller by John Feltham at the windmill, Cashmore Inn, Dorset.

The site would seem to be good being almost on the highest part of the hill just south of prehistoric field remains.

[1] CRO Tithe 1840 - Gussage St Michael, Plot ref 123 Occupied by John Cox Folkes, owned by Lord Portman (who owned most of the area).