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Lincolnshire being mainly level and low-lying is ideal windmill country, forming an extension to the well-known 'Windmill Land' of East Anglia. The total number of windmills to have stood in the county at the peak of the windmill's popularity in the early 19th century can only be guessed at without conducting extensive research; including Fenland pumping windmills there were probably more than 500.

Being essentially rural in character with few large industrial towns, the small country windmill was able to hold its own against the large power driven town flour and animal feed mills with the result that Lincolnshire was one of the last areas to use wind power to any extent. A side effect of this is that large numbers of windmills have survived to the present day. This late survival has been aided by the fact that the tower mill, the most durable type of windmill, had become common in Lincolnshire by the early 19th century, whereas in a county such as Suffolk, where post mills and smock mills were more popular, very few mills have survived due to their inability to remain intact without maintenance.

In Lincolnshire today can be found the remains of 136 windmills, only two of which were not corn grinding mills. Of the other English Counties, only Norfolk exceeds this number, but in that county nearly half of the 180-odd mills were marshland pumping mills in the Norfolk Broads.

Built by the Horton family, a five sail mill with four pairs of stones, three French and one grey. It was acquired by Henry LeTall in 1871 when it is said to have had six sails, although another source suggests that the sails were taken off in 1860, steam being the motive power after this. Millstones were used at the mill, which grew in size extensively, until 1888, when roller flour mills were put in by Joseph Thornton, millwright of Retford.

The mill tower was then gutted and converted into a silo and water tower, in which form it survives to this day. Flour is no longer made at the mill, which has gone over to making animal feedstuffs. The mill tower, which at 77 feet 6 inches high to the curb (which still remains), is the second highest in the county. There are, or rather were, nine floors, with an iron reefing stage (which remains) at fifth floor level. The internal diameter at ground floor level is 28 feet 10 inches and at the curb is 11 feet.

Built in 1871, this tower mill worked by wind until the mid 1920's. It carried on using an engine for many years after this. It had four patent sails which drove two, and possibly three pairs of stones. At any rate, three pairs of stones remain, two of greys and one of French.

One of the pairs of greys is fitted up with a direct underdrive by engine through a pair of bevel wheels and fast and loose pulleys outside the tower. Its runner is fitted with a 'damsel', a very unusual feature in a county where overdrive is virtually universal. The gearing is all iron, with mortice stone nuts. The upright shaft's upper section and the old sackhoist are missing, since direct engine drive was employed latterly and a rather neat 'slack chain' sackhoist has been arranged from the horizontal engine drive shaft.