Bradwell Windmill — Attraction in Stantonbury

Beautiful place

This is one of the most distinctive landmarks in Milton Keynes, and so it’s hardly surprising to learn that the attractive structure.

Samuel Holman is responsible for the mill that you now see off the V6 Grafton Street.

Back in 1803 he bought an acre of land, known as the Yawles, close to the newly-opened Grand Junction Canal.

The tower windmill was built around 1805 using locally-quarried limestone at a cost of more than £500 – a considerable sum of money more than 200 years ago.

Samuel worked the mill until his death in 1825, when the business was inherited by his wife and son.

It milled barley and wheat, and provided a living for the families who subsequently owned it in the following decades, but things were changing, and with the increasing use of steam power, the mill closed for business in 1876. The last miller was Robert Saxby.

The Bradwell Windmill was restored in the 1970s – 1990s by Milton Keynes Development Corporation, but not to full working order, and is now owned by Milton Keynes Council.

In 2014 new windows and cap cladding were fitted, the sails refurbished and additional restoration work to the machinery has enabled Bradwell, after a 138 year interruption, to once again be a working mill.

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Fantastic historical landmark in a beautiful place of MK and right next to the canal nice walks around the area of you're near this is a gem to visit I visited this today and yesterday on Easter weekend and took a picture of the old windmill I had a sit down today and starred at the windmill I just wish you could go inside and have a look but still a brilliant...

Built around 1805 by Samuel Holman to mill barley and wheat. It operated until the mid-1870s when steam power became more prevalent. After a period of disuse, it was restored by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation between the 1970s and 1990s and is now managed by Milton Keynes Museum. A great looking windmill, it does have open days so check...