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Monks Corn Mill
Archaeology
The site of a former windmill at Ramsey. Known as the Ramsey tower mill, it was a combined corn and saw mill built by Lieutenant John Monk and completed on 29 August 1836; the tower stood 64 feet high on a 35-foot-diameter base, and a local newspaper in 1840 described it as 'a most conspicuous object from all the country round.' A steam engine was added for auxiliary power in 1862, and the windmill is thought to have ceased working by the late 1870s. The tower was later reduced to two storeys and converted to residential use, and survives today as Beaconsfield Tower.
Ramsey
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Book Chapters
- Parish: Ramsey
- Sheading: Garff
- Grid Ref: SC4540094500
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record