The mid-sixteenth century wooden post mill at Edge Hill near Ratley, Warwickshire, demolished in 1916

Date:: 1890 - 1916

Location:: Edge Hill Windmill, Ratley And Upton, Edge Hill, Stratford-On-Avon, Warwickshire

Reference:: OP09961

Type:: Photograph (Print)

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Description

This windmill was first recorded as being in existence in 1561 and was demolished in 1916. King Charles I is said to have watched the Battle of Edge Hill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, from the vantage point of the windmill on Sunday the 23rd of October 1642. Notes on the reverse of the photographic mount indicate that this image was taken by either Bernard Moore of Birmingham or P J Deakin.

Archival History

Previously held in the collection of the National Monuments Record, London.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/43 Early Photographic Print Collection: Warwickshire; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Elizabethan Post Mill, Elizabethan Windmill