◦ Location: Windmill Hill Business Park, Swindon
◦ Time and date: 11am today, 09/01/2022
◦ Aircraft/camera used: Mini 2
◦ Drone Scene: here
This windmill has stood on the site only since the 1980s. The windmill was moved, brick by brick, from its original site in Chiseldon, where it had stood since the 1820s.
Little Marton Mill is a 19th-century English tower mill in Marton, now part of Blackpool, Lancashire. It was built in 1838 by John Hays for grinding corn, and worked until 1928
Photo taken 14:25 today ( 11/1/22 ) with a DJI Mini 2
I’m unsure about posting this one - DJI Fly Safe showed it as OK to fly there, but when I came to add the location to Drone Scene it shows as being about 400m inside Blackpool Airport’s NFZ
Oddly it has the opposite issue at Lytham Mill - DJI reckons it’s inside Warton’s NFZ, while Drone Scene shows it as just outside it, so planning on using an FPV drone for that one
Marsh Mill is a beautifully restored Grade II* listed tower mill. It is one of the tallest in Europe, standing at over seventy feet and is now set in the surroundings of Marsh Mill Village and shopping centre, though it predates these by some margin, and was working up to 1922
Set in the village of Staining a few miles East of Blackpool, the mill was built in 1715 and was active up to 1922 ( more info here Engineering Timelines - Staining Mill )
Location not added to Drone Scene as it is now a private residence.
I normally keep a pointy thingy in my bag, but had taken it out to use when dismantling a brake caliper I also could have gone into Lytham and bought a biro, but the sun was already half set, so it would have been dark by the time I was ready to fly.