Glanvilles Wooton

The windmill                             

The Millers                                 See note below regarding Glanville family

Present site condition        

Notes and comments        

Although not appearing on the C19th TA, a deed of 1696 (at CRO) refers to one close of pasture called Windmill Hill  as being in this parish. Certainly the village is on the higher ground of the district (about 5 miles south east of Sherborne) and there would appear to be several suitable sites.

Ranulf Glanville (d.1190) was justiciar during the last nine years of Henry II's reign. His large and very complex family were great early windmill promoters[1] elsewhere in England. It is a possibility that this windmill dates from these early times.

[1]  Kealy, Edward J.  Harvesting the Air - p240