A 5-storey, 5-sailed brick tower mill built in c.1813 by Sam Oxley of Alford, together with a range of outbuildings. It was known as Dobson's Mill after a long-serving miller here.

It retains a full range of machinery and equipment including three pairs of stones and it has unusual left-handed sails (ie, they rotate clockwise, unlike most windmills).

This 5-sailed tower mill (Dobson's Mill) was built in 1813 and regularly grinds corn today.

It contains much of the original machinery and, unusually, turns clockwise.

There are 3 pairs of wind-powered millstones and one pair engine-powered by a Blackstone (of Stamford) diesel engine.

1970s photograph

This 5-sailed tower mill (Dobson's Mill) was built in 1813 and regularly grinds corn today.

It contains much of the original machinery and, unusually, turns clockwise.

There are 3 pairs of wind-powered millstones and one pair engine-powered by a Blackstone (of Stamford) diesel engine.

Postcard from David Robinson Collection, undated

Dobson's Mill worked commercially until 1964 and is now in the ownership of Lincolnshire County Council.

Location of mill: TF 503 649

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

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This pre-war photograph of Hanson's Mill on West End was taken shortly before the sails were removed.

1935 photograph

Hanson's Mill, a five-floored mill, was built in the mid-1850s on the site of a post mill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The sails were removed in 1938 and the machinery in 1964. The tower has been incorporated into a dwelling.

Location of mill: TF 498 651

The view in this sketch looks west along High Street from Skegness Road.

On the left are the two of the principal buildings in the village - the church of St Peter and St Paul and the 5-sailed windmill.

At one time the a small gasworks occupied a site on the south side of High Street close to the windmill.

Drawing by Tom Brooker for East Lindsey District Council, 1972

An attractive composition of station house, platform buildings and signal box, Burgh le Marsh station remains surprisingly complete today despite its closure, along with the railway here, in 1970.

Until 1923 it was known simply as Burgh.

For over 20 years, until the line to Skegness from Firsby was opened, it was the nearest station to the seaside town, six miles away to the east.

Peter Grey Archive, 1969

Here is a fine example of the Perpendicular period of architecture.

The church of St Peter and St Paul,
Burgh-le-Marsh, has outstanding Jacobean woodwork in the pulpit, font cover & north chapel screen.

Jabez Good, village barber, writer, museum curator and much more, carved the lectern in 1874.

The unusual clock with painted surround on the west face of the tower of Burgh's church.

drawing by Tom Brooker for East Lindsey District Council, 1972

Burgh-le-Marsh, has outstanding Jacobean woodwork in the pulpit, font cover & north chapel screen.

Mark Acton, 2008

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of SS. Peter and Paul; conspicuous both from its size and commanding position, is a building of Portland stone, almost wholly of Late Perpendicular date, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, with embattled parapet, aisles, north and south porches and a fine massive western tower, with turret on the south-east, enriched canopied niches on its western face, and terminating in a parapet with ornamental finials, surmounted by 16 iron crosses and containing a clock and 8 bells, the third and fifth of which were added in 1616, by the devise of Mr. John Holden, and the tenor, the gift of Mr. John Dawson, in 1860:

from the summit of the tower a very extensive view is obtained over the broad flat marshy district around:

the eastern portion of the aisles once formed chantry chapels, but the screens enclosing them were removed about 1865, and portions are ,now attached to the chancel walls ; a chancel screen, partly consisting of the old carved oak, was erected in 1891, at a cost of £100:

the pulpit, dating from 1623, is a good example of its time, and was also the result of Mr. Holden's bequest :

on the north wall is a brass inscribed with a most singular interrogatory epitaph to Leonard Palmer, gent. ob. 1610, his wife Catherine, two sons and three daughters:

the font has a beautifully carved oak canopy of the same date and design as the pulpit :

the lectern, carved by Mr. Good, a local artist, was presented by subscription in 1874:

the organ was the gift of the Rev. W. G. Tozer D.D. successively bishop of Zanzibar, Jamaica and Honduras, and vicar of Burgh 1857-63:

the church was reseated in 1889:

the south wall was rebuilt and the south aisle reroofed in 1909:

in 1912 a carved reredos was placed in the church and in 1919 two beautiful stained glass windows were added:

a side chapel, enclosing a Jacobean screen, was erected in 1924 as a private memorial of the Great War 1914-18, by the vicar, Rev. Gerald Hollidge Harries M.C., MA.: there are 520 sittings"

DB 11 September 2022

Burgh-le-Marsh, has outstanding Jacobean woodwork in the pulpit, font cover & north chapel screen.

Jabez Good, village barber, writer, museum curator and much more, carved the lectern in 1874.

Detail showing the royal coat of arms on the back panel of the pulpit.

DB 11 September 2022