Castletown windmill, IsleOfMan

Castletown (#iom1)

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NGR: SC259677

(54.07525,-4.6623)

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tower - House converted - now has a glass roof contained within the tower.

Dating from 1828, this was rebuilt in 1848, and ruined by at least 1874. In the 20th century, the buildings surrounding the tower were used to house a museum of witchcraft from 1951 - 1960s, then it stood empty, till redevelopment as a housing development in the late 1990s.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 505, 14 August 1850, Page 3

The Liverpool Albion has the following among its records of the storm of February 6 :- "On the Isle of Man so violent was the gale that it led to the well-known windmill at Castletown being destroyed by fire. The wind forced round the sails, and consequently the machinery, with such rapidity that the friction set the mill on fire, and the entire building with its outhouses was consumed."