Poole - Turling Moor

Parish Hamworthy (on Poole municipal boundary)

O.S Grid Reference SZ 982 922

Nearest contour height 0 - 5m

Topography At edge of Poole harbour in Lychett Bay

Archaeology

Earliest Dating Unknown - may be a C19th windpump ?

Records

Documents

Maps

Early maps

Ogilby 1675

Taylor 1765

Tithe Map (c1840)

1st Edition OS map

2nd Edition OS map 1901 - has a windmill symbol almost exactly on

the Poole Municipal boundary. Given the siting on the edge of Turling Moor,

it was probably a windpump used for drainage

Present OS map

Google Maps

The Windmill

The Millers

Present site condition

Notes and comments

There is a windmill marked^[1] on the 2nd edition 6" OS map of 1901 almost exactly on the Poole Municipal boundary at the edge of Turlin(g) Moor right on the north-east shore of Lytchett Bay. It does not appear on the last edition of the 1" OS map (1960). The Moor is named Turlin on this map and area appears unchanged. What is it like now ? Quite possibly, it was a windpump for land drainage

TO DO : Check TA map & site itself

^[1] The writer (RC) found this on the OS map ! It does not seem to be listed on Bones SDNQ list.