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Windmill @ Melin Llynon, Llanddeusant

The Donut and milkshake at the small caffee we to die far, never know so many different varieties of the cakes called Monuts..

The mill was built on land owned by the surgeon Herbert Jones for £529, 11s in 1775–1776 (equivalent to £100,000 in 2025). It is classified as a tower mill. The machinery is within a stone tower and the moving top, or cap cwch, turns so that the sails hwyliau catch the wind from any direction. The tower was 9.3 metres tall and with four floors. It was used to drive machines for grinding corn, oats and barley. The first miller, Thomas Jones (1756–1846), worked it until his death. The position of miller was passed down through the generations, eventually going to a cousin William Pritchard. By 1929, the mill was registered as disused and in use again. By 1954, structural damage meant the mill was permanently out of order.

It is now the only working windmill in Anglesey and Wales. Also within the site is a reconstruction of an Iron Age roundhouse hut building
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Don Sutherland said:

Gorgeous windmill.
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JanS Photography replied to Don Sutherland:

Thank you
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Annemarie said:

a beautiful image

happy evening!
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JanS Photography replied to Annemarie:

Thanks
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William Sutherland said:

Stunning windmill capture!
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JanS Photography replied to William Sutherland:

Cheers, apprciated.
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