Damside Windmill (also known as Pilling Windmill and The Old Mill) is a

tower A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures. Towers are specifi ...

windmill A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications, in so ...

in the English village of

Pilling Pilling is a village and civil parish within the Wyre borough of Lancashire, England. It is north-northeast of Poulton-le-Fylde, south-southwest of Lancaster and northwest of Preston, in a part of the Fylde known as Over Wyre. The civi ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a Historic counties of England, historic county, Ceremonial County, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significa ...

. It was built in 1808 by

Ralph Slater Ralph Slater (1754–1830)Register: Burials 1813 - 1887, Page 167, Entry 1332 Source: LDS Film 1470949 was an English millwright, active in the second half of the 18th century and early 19th, ostensibly known for his windmills on the Fylde in ...

, builder of similar structures in the area, such as

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. It is a good examp ...

. An earlier mill was marked here on Yates's 1786 map of Lancashire.''The industrial archaeology of north-west England'', Owen Ashmore (1982), p. 216 The mill converted to steam power in 1870, and the sails were removed in 1887. It continued to operate until the 1920s, after which it fell into disrepair. By 1975, the mill had been restored for use as a private residence. The top of the windmill was restored with a traditional wooden cap in 2007, restoring it to its original height of .A Short History of Pilling Windmill : 1808–2007
accessed 16 October 2011 Inventor Richard Gornall worked out of a barn attached to the mill in the late 19th century."Lancashire's family of madcap inventors"
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Lancashire Post The ''Lancashire Evening Post'' is a daily newspaper based in Fulwood, a suburb of the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. According to the British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of t ...

'', 19 May, 2017

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Damside, Pilling, Lancashire
– Windmill World
DEC 2016 – DAMSIDE WINDMILL, LANCASHIRE
– Unique Property Bulletin (interior pictures) Buildings and structures in the Borough of Wyre Windmills in Lancashire The Fylde Tower mills in the United Kingdom Windmills completed in 1808 1808 establishments in England Pilling {{windmill-stub

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