Lytham Windmill

Lytham Windmill is situated on Lytham Green inside the coastal town of Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England. It is of the sort known as a tower mill and become designed for grinding wheat and oats to make flour or bran. Since business milling at the website ceased in 1921 the mill has belonged to the metropolis and is operated by means of Fylde Borough Council, who open it to the public in the course of the summer. The mill additionally incorporates a museum run by means of the Lytham Heritage Trust which explains the records and practice of flour milling.

The mill became built on Lytham marshes around 1805 on land leased by way of the local landowner and squire to miller Richard Cookson. Some of the mill's machinery, together with a 150-year-antique mainshaft of Baltic oak, became salvaged from other neighborhood mills. The plinth which now surrounds the mill become added later for safety reasons. The original smoky drying kiln, once adjoining to the mill, become moved to Kiln Street after strain from nicely-to-do neighborhood citizens in the growing town. The surrounding land became later levelled and grassed to form a ribbon green between the homes and the sea, inside the middle of which stands the mill.