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Birstall #1102

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Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

Brown Hill Mill: Tower mill function:Corn mill - derelict stump

Shirley Brook has been been researching her (husband's) family tree, and provided me with the following information on this mill:

Eli Brook was a cornmiller in 1841, living at Brownhill, Batley. On the 1851 census Eli and family appear in Beeston, Holbeck area of Leeds, also recorded as a cornmiller, though it's unclear where he milled.

My initial research would indicate that the Brownhill windmill (Windmill Lane, Brownhill, Birstall) was owned by the local landowner, which would have been the family Bat until the turn of the C late 1700's, when the family moved from Oakwell Hall, Batley. During the next 30-40 years the property changed hands several times, so I am trying to trace who owned it in 1841 which is when our GGG grandfather was the cornmiller.

After the mid 1800s Oakwell Hall has a chequered history ending up in the Local Authority hands in the early 1900's and is now a museum.

The windmill stump still stands and is on the land of the Brownhill Infants School, Upper Batley Lane.

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #1102 - Brownhill Mill, Batley

The mill tower is still standing.

International Mill Database Entry
name	Brownhill Mill
id	58015
description	Truncated tower mill in the grounds of a school
drive power recent	none
drive power originally	windmill
mill type	tower mill
function type	grain mill
condition type	abandoned
map location	53.73186,-1.647
country	United Kingdom
state	England
county	West Yorkshire
municipality	Batley
city	Batley
city part	Brown Hill
zip	WF17 0NR
street	58 Upper Batley Ln
logo detail	windmill_tower
picture	12478
photographer name	Leo van der Drift
picture name	GB-BirstallYorkshireBrownhillMill_LeoVanDerDrift_Sept2017.JPG
picture url	https://milldatabase.org/image/12478/download