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Latitude: 53.3091 / 53°18'32"N
Longitude: -4.0903 / 4°5'25"W
OS Eastings: 260821
OS Northings: 381162
OS Grid: SH608811
Mapcode National: GBR JM8Y.P2R
Mapcode Global: WH53W.43H1
Plus Code: 9C5Q8W55+JV
Entry Name: Felin Wynt
Listing Date: 30 January 1968
Last Amended: 17 July 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 5521
Building Class: Industrial
ID on this website: 300005521
Location: Set back from the N side of a country road running between Penmon and Glan-yr-afon, N of the village of Llangoed; c0.6km NNW of the Church of St Cawdraf.
County: Isle of Anglesey
Community: Llangoed
Community: Llangoed
Traditional County: Anglesey
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Formerly known as Melin Llangoed, erected by Henry Williams in 1741, one of the earliest tower mills on the island. Sold, along with the adjacent farmland, to John Hughes of Caernarfon in 1787. The next documented evidence of the mill's history is in the mid C19; auctioned for sale in 1842, and occupied by Reverend William John Lewis. The mill is then recorded as being the property of prosperous local landowner Major Chadwick, who rented out the mill, cottage and farmland to Owen Jones. Owen is recorded as miller in 1883 and retained the tenancy of the mill until its closure in 1921. In 1926 all the metalwork, except the cast-iron windshaft, was removed for scrap and the mill stood as an empty shell until 1960 when it was bought by a civil engineer called Stanley Flory. Flory worked as a construction engineer on the Shanghai Waterworks, and used his expertise to install a watertank in the hollow tower, which then provided water for his house at Tan-y-Felin. During the conversion the mill's old windshaft was utilised to help support an internal floor and a spiral stairway was installed to give access to a viewing platform at the top of the tower.
Circular windmill with sloping wall of locally quarried rubblestone masonry, mortared; partly rendered. Three storeys. Rectangular window openings at 1st and 2nd floors. Part of top of wall is missing. Roof, as railed platform formed at somewhat lower level.
Interior not inspected at the time of the survey.
Listed as a substantially intact windmill tower, one of only 18 surviving on Anglesey. In early-mid C19 there were over 40 windmills operating on the island, grinding the large volumnes of corn then being produced. Felin Wynt is of particular interest as one of the earliest surviving towers on the island.
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