Ashton Tower Mill Between Wedmore And Weare, Somerset Stock Photography

A tower mill is a type of vertical windmill consisting of a brick or stone tower, on which sits a wooden cap or roof, it can be positioned to bring the sails into the wind. Ashton Mill was used to grind wheat for flour and beans for cattle food.Tower height 7.5m high, walls 60cm thick, sails 13m across, millstones 1.2m, This structure 18 century