Swanage

Parish

O.S Grid Reference SZ 025 795 [Lat 50.6151 - Long -1.9660]

Nearest contour height 30m

Topography

Archaeology

Earliest Dating

Records

Documents

Maps

Early maps

Ogilby 1675

Taylor 1765

Tithe Map (c1840)

1st Edition OS map

Present OS map

Google Maps :

The Windmill

The Millers

Present site condition

Notes and comments

A possible site, although no reference source^[1] is given by M J Way who suggested that a windmill once stood on the site of the present Oldfield House to the west side of the town. This was formerly the site of King John's Hunting Lodge at Godlingstone.

There are certainly two windmills known to have existed in nearby Langton Matravers and the topography of the whole peninsula would have made the wind an important power source for milling.

^[1] Way, M J, The windmills, watermills & horsemills of Dorset (1959) p4 (unpublished paper in the Dorset County Museum)