Crowland Post Mill was built in the late 1790s and worked for just under a hundred years before going out of use. The windmill was burnt down in 1911.
A local newspaper report of 1911 reported on the demise of the mill in this way:
“Gunpowder Plot – Old Mill set on fire. Crowland celebrated ‘Guy Fawkes’ in a lively way on Saturday by setting fire to an old windmill on the Postland road, which though it had been standing idle for nearly twenty years, lovers of the past are sorry to see demolished, and see an old landmark pass into oblivion. The mill was the property of the Rector of Crowland and although a reward has been offered, up to the present the culprit or culprits have not been traced.”
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