Whixall Windmill

The first signs of Whixall or Stanley Green Mill was its mention in maps of 1827 and 1833(OS). In 1831 (Bagshaw) Thomas Shingler is recorded as the incumbent ‘corn miller’, and the mill appears again in the Tithe award of 1847. We can presume therefore that mill construction started in approximately 1825 and it soon became an established feature of Whixall.

Image from a map dated 1885-1900

Described as a wind-powered tower mill for the milling of corn or grinding of fertilizer products it was still being run by Thomas Shingler in 1851 and then later by George Shingler, presumably Thomas’s son, according to the 1871 Census. In Kelly’s Directory of 1891 there is no mention of this mill although one John Dawson is listed as a farmer and miller (steam) based at Brain’s (Braynes) Hall.

John Bostock is listed as miller at Whixall Mill in the 1900 Census but then there is no mention of the mill in Kelly’s directory of 1929. In the Ordnance Survey map of 1892-1914 the mill is shown as disused. It is thought it was demolished prior to 1929.

Map of 1892-1914

The only image found of the windmill with its sails.