Little Marton windmill, Lancashire 🌍


Little Marton #1463

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NGR: SD349342
(53.79913,-2.9898)


Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

tower 1838 - conserved

The memorial plaque inside the mill (of which there is a replica outside as well) reads:
ALLEN CLARKE MEMORIAL WINDMILL. This windmill was given in 1937 by Cornelius Bagot of Blackpool to be maintained as a memorial to Allen Clarke, author, journalist & Lancashire dialect story writer who was born in Bolton in 1863 & died in Blackpool in 1935 - Author of "Windmill Land", "Windmill Land Stories", "Moorlands and Memories" - Founder of the Lancashire Authors Association and the Blackpool Ramble Club.

Little Marton, Spring 2008 © Daniel Stretton
Little Marton, Spring 2008 © Daniel Stretton
Little Marton, Spring 2008 © Daniel Stretton
Little Marton, Spring 2008 © Daniel Stretton
Interior of Little Marton Windmill, Spring 2008 © Friends of Little Marton Windmill
Interior of Little Marton Windmill, Spring 2008 © Friends of Little Marton Windmill
Interior of Little Marton Windmill, Spring 2008 © Friends of Little Marton Windmill
Interior of Little Marton Windmill, Spring 2008 © Friends of Little Marton Windmill
Shirley Matthews opeing Little Marton Mill for National Mills Weekend, Spring 2008 © Friends of Little Marton Windmill
Memorial stone inside Little Marton Windmill, Spring 2008 © Friends of Little Marton Windmill
Little Marton, Spring 2008 © Friends of Little Marton Windmill
Mill ID 1463
Little Marton, Lancashire, 2/4/89
© Peter Hedges collection
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Memorial windmill leaving Blackpool [2008-06-26]

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Windmill [2005-08-15]

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News item: Colourful interior of Little Marton (29/5/08)
News item: Photos of Marton mill (8/5/08)
News item: Windmill sails (22/4/08)
News item: WindmillLand - Promoting the works of Allen Clarke (22/4/08)
News item: Marton windmill loses sail in gales (30/3/08)
News item: Charles Allen Clarke tribute tour of Fylde windmills (28/5/06)

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Little Marton Hill
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