Information for record number MWA3828:
Site of Post Medieval Windmill on Windmill Hill

Summary The site of a Post Medieval post mill, a type of windmill mounted on a post. The site at Little Wolford is shown on 19th century estate maps, and may be the windmill shown on the Sheldon Tapestry in Warwick Museum.
What Is It?  
Type: Windmill, Post Mill
Period: Post-medieval (1540 AD - 1750 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Little Wolford
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 27 34
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 The post mill depicted on the Sheldon tapestry was probably sited about here according to estate maps and M Warriner's knowledge of the locality - WAS.
2 Windmill Hill. Built by c1580 (Sheldon Tapestry). Estate maps 1828 and 1846. Ceased 17th century. post mill, open at base.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: WM
Author/originator: WAS
Date: 1979
Page Number: 16
Volume/Sheet: Windmills Gazetteer
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: 44NE
Author/originator: JMM
Date:
Page Number: 44NE
Volume/Sheet: Annotated Map
   
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source WM Warwickshire Museum Aerial Photograph Collection. A collection of oblique and vertical aerial photographs and taken by various organisations and individuals, including the Royal Airforce, The Potato Board, Warwickshire Museum. The collection is held at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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period Post Medieval About 1540 AD to 1750 AD (the 16th century AD to the 18th century AD)

The Post Medieval period comes after the medieval period and before the Imperial period.

This period covers the second half of the reign of the Tudors (1485 – 1603), the reign of the Stuarts (1603 – 1702) and the beginning of the reign of the Hannoverians (1714 – 1836).
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument WINDMILL * A tower-like structure of wood or brick with a wooden cap and sails which are driven around by the wind producing power to work the internal machinery. Use with product type where known. back
monument MUSEUM * A building, group of buildings or space within a building, where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artefacts are housed and displayed. back
monument POST MILL * A type of windmill, mainly timber-framed, whose body, containing machinery and carrying the sail, rotates about an upright post. back

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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