Maud Foster Windmill

Maud Foster Windmill
Maud Foster Mill, January 2008
Origin
Mill location	Boston, Lincolnshire
Coordinates	52°59′01″N 0°01′04″W / 52.9835°N 0.0178°W / 52.9835; -0.0178
Operator(s)	James Waterfield
Year built	1819
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Tower mill
Storeys	Seven storey
No. of sails	Five
Type of sails	Patent sails
Windshaft	Cast iron
Winding	Fantail
Fantail blades	Eight blades
No. of pairs of millstones	Three pairs

Maud Foster Windmill is a seven-storey, five sail windmill located by the Maud Foster Drain in Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire, from which she is named. She is one of the largest operating windmills in England being 80 feet (24.38 m) tall to the cap ball.

The tower mill and adjoining granary is grade I listed building. The mill was built in 1819 for Isaac and Thomas Reckitt of Wainfleet. It was repaired and restored in 1988.^[1]