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Bryn Du
(#wales7)
NGR:
SH34577255Melin-Y-Bont:
tower
Ruinous watermill and windmill (burnt out circa 1970). 8 pairs of stones driven by either water or wind.
4 sails, breast-shot wheel, 3 floors, 4 wire machines. Combined wind/water mill circa 1826.
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Defended Building, Angle
NGR:
SM86690195
Truncated, two-storey, circular stone tower. The building is a former windmill, adapted as a defence post with inserted
concrete floor and five wide splayed concrete embrasures fitted with Turnbull mountings at 1st floor level. Steel rungs
set in wall allow access to hatch in floor. During WW1 it probably served as a machine gun post. It was probably an
observation post during the Napoleonic Wars [WW2 use not stated]. External diameter 6.09m, walls 1.25m thick, 3.6m high.
Foel Fawr, Mynytho
(#wales22)
NGR:
SH305320tower
- derelict
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Approaching the windmill on the summit of Foel Fawr
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Glan-Yr-Afon, Felin Wynt; Marian Dyrys Windmill
(#wales12)
NGR:
SH60828116tower
- house converted
18th century, probably. Circular windmill. Sloping walls. Rubble masonry. 3 storey. Rectangular openings 1st and 2nd floor.
Top of wall gone.
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Hen Dwr, Nant-Y-Gamar Road, Llandudno; Old Tower
NGR:
SH80428117tower
A former windmill with a tower of two stages; 22 ft high, 14 ft in diameter, with walls 4 ft. thick at base but tapering upwards.
Pebble dash cladding. Walls pierced by window openings now boarded. Much altered by conversion to a dwelling, probably during
late C18; two-storey wing constructed at north end.
Hermon Windmill, Anglesea
(#wales17)
NGR:
SH3969tower
- derelict
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NGR:
SO365030tower
- Undergoing house conversion, April 2008
Complex includes a C19 windmill tower, pre 1813. Erected for Edward Berry of Lancayo. Prominent tapering conical
tower with attached roofless mill building. 3 door openings above ground level & 4 square windows. Put-log holes
under first sill-course. Listed as a prominent early C19 windmill tower, a significant landmark and survival of the
C19 agricultural improvements on the Lancayo Estate.
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Melin Llynnon, Anglesey
(#wales1)
NGR:
SH34058523tower
-
Restored to working order
The last tower mill on Anglesey to retain sails and machinery.
Built September 1775 - March 1776 at a cost of £529 11s 0d. Stone tower, rendered, four storeys with boat-shaped cap.
Three pairs of millstones: one pair French burrs for wheat flour, one pair Anglesey stones for general milling,
one pair open for view. Ceased milling by wind-power in 1924;
Four sails in good condition in 1929.
Restored to working order and opened to the public in 1984.
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Monknash Windmill
NGR:
SS91867060tower
Ruined tower, approximately 24ft high; walls approximately 3 1/2ft thick.
Prior to revision (11.12.68) OS showed Monknash grange dovecote (Nprn37613) as a windmill.
Morfa Mill, Aberystwyth
NGR:
SN58108025
Built circa 1740, using machinery from former windmill in Windmill Court, Aberystwyth. Watermill still operating late 19th century.
Mynydd Mechell
(#wales10)
NGR:
SH363901tower
- house converted
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St Davids, Pembrokeshire
NGR:
SM75792509Twr y Felin:
tower
- converted into a hotel
Hotel built c.1915 with an old windmill as its core.
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Sully Windmill
(#wales5)
NGR:
ST141679tower
Situated in the garden of a modern house are the remains of the manorial windmill of Sully. Only the base survives,
built of random limestone rubble with sandy mortar and standing to 2.1m high. The circular tower is 5.8m in external
diameter with walls 1.3m thick, strongly battered on the outside. It is entered by opposing doorways, 1.1m wide on
the outside, narrowing to 0.8m on the inside.
A millstone now rests against its inside wall on the W side. It measures 1.07m in diameter and 0.18m thick.
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Trearddur Bay, Anglesey
NGR:
SH26577887Stanley Windmill:
18th century. Former windmill. Circular. Tapering tower. Raised by 1 storey above former roof level. Rubble.
Converted for occupation. It was still worked by wind in 1934.
Twr-Y-Felin, Llandegfan
(#wales18)
NGR:
SH56617401tower
- truncated
18th century, probably. Remains of windmill. Circular masonry walls diminishing in girth upwards.
Rectangular openings. Upper part missing. Cap and remains of sails in 1929.
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