Wavertree Windmill
As a post mill, the wooden superstructure could be rotated on its base to catch the wind, by means of a projecting pole attached to a cartwheel.[1][2] First recorded in 1452, the mill was the property of the crown until 1639, when Charles I granted it to James Stanley, then known as Lord Strange.[2] It was subsequently owned by the Marquess of Salisbury, and was finally leased by Colonel James Bourne.[1][3] In 1986, preparatory to the building of two new houses on the site, an archaeological dig was carried out, which unearthed the brick and stone foundations of the mill.These remains were dated to the eighteenth century,[4] and are still visible in the front garden of one of the new houses, having been transplanted 15 yards (14 m) from their original location.