Marsh Mill
Marsh Mill is an 18th-century tower windmill in Thornton, Lancashire, England. It was built in 1794 by Ralph Slater for local landowner Bold Hesketh. It functioned as a corn mill until the 1920s and has been fully restored.Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Christ Church and Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Christ Church
Church
Christ Church is in Meadows Avenue, Thornton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Poulton, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. Christ Church is situated 2,300 feet northwest of Marsh Mill.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Church
Photo: Bob Jenkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church is situated 2,500 feet north of Marsh Mill.
Anchorsholme Library
Library
Photo: Trevor Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anchorsholme Library is situated 1 mile west of Marsh Mill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thornton and Anchorsholme.
Thornton
Town
Thornton is a village in the Borough of Wyre, about 4 miles north of Blackpool and 2 miles south of Fleetwood. The civil parish of Thornton became an urban district in 1900, and was renamed Thornton-Cleveleys in 1927.
Anchorsholme
Suburb
Photo: Trevor Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anchorsholme is a suburban area of Blackpool and the name of a ward in the Borough of Blackpool in Lancashire, England. It lies close to the town of Cleveleys.
Cleveleys
Photo: Michael D Beckwith, CC0.
Cleveleys or Thornton-Cleveleys is a part of the Wyre local council area in Lancashire, England. It is 3 miles north of Blackpool, with which it has grown to merge along with the other Fylde Coast towns of Bispham, Lytham St Annes and Fleetwood.
Marsh Mill
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: windmill in Thornton, Lancashire, England, UK
- Categories: tower mill, windmill, and tourism
- Location: Wyre District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.87491° or 53° 52′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.01193° or 3° 0′ 43″ westInception
1794Operator
Wyre CouncilOpen location code
9C5RVXFQ+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1154525780OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=windmillOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1902701
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to German—“Marsh Mill” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Marsh Mill”
- German: “Marsh Mill”
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