Metheringham Windmill

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Metheringham windmill, locally known as The Old Meg Flour Mill, was a six-storeyed, six-sailed, and tarred slender Linconshire type windmill with the typical white onion-shaped cap with fantail, built in 1867 to be used to grind flour from grain. Located on a paddock at the eponymous village in North Kesteven south of Lincoln it is one of the many tall brick-tower mills of Lincolnshire with stage, now disused.

The mill was equipped with a complete iron gear, six Sutton patent sails which drove her four pairs of millstones, and a mill house near by, but had a serious lack in prosperity. She lost later on up to four of her sails, each of them being not replaced and the remaining ones being juggled around for balance. After having started with 6 sails she ran then with four then two (!) and finally with three, in which appearance she finished her sixty years work around 1930. Until 1942 the mill could be viewed with her unique three sails design and was one of the most photographed mills in the area. In the following years the remaining sails were gone and after 1961 cap and windshaft followed. The tar coating is now wearing off the tower giving a free view to the unusual banding in her brickwork of 205 courses. Rests of the iron stage can still be found on the mill at the second floor (third floor all in all), but in a bad condition because of the many damages by various crashing down sails. Due to the lack of public right of access to the mill she can't be examined if the machinery is still in place inside the mill.