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Annan
Windmill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Annan
Classification Windmill (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 66446
Site Number NY16NE 118
NGR NY 194 672
NGR Description NY c. 194 672
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66446
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Annan
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY16NE 118 c. 194 672
About 1/4 mile E of the River Annan, the site of a windmill marked on John Thomson's 1828 map. The mill was apparently in use until its demolition in the mid-nineteenth century to make way for housing.
I L Donnachie and N K Stewart 1967.
The windmill is depicted on Wood's map of Annan (1826), and on the 1st edition of the OS 1:2500 scale map (Dumfriesshire, sheet lxii.8, 1858-9). Wood's map represents it as a freestanding round tower, whereas the OS show in addition attached wings to E, W and S. The windmill was subsequently demolished and replaced by Provost Mill (OS 2nd edition 1:2500, Dumfriesshire, 1899). The mill is also depicted in a general view of Annan by D O Hill, c.1840, which shows it as a tapering tower mounting four sails.
Information from RCAHMS (IFr), 11 September 2007).
