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I used to live near here, and the area was known as Windmill Hill then. However, I didn't know where the actual windmill had been. It's marked on the 1908 Godfrey OS map, but it says "Disused." There is a circular, an oval, and a thin rectangular feature, surrounded by a roughly circular boundary, with a lane (Windmill Hill) running up to it from the bowling club on Smalewell Road.On Google Earth, there appears to be the remains of the building, but it's hard to see exactly what is there. There's nothing on the Tithe map, but other old maps show the same features, and a modern map shows the same circular boundary.Does anyone have more information?Cheers,Si.    

Here's the aerial shot of the windmill (?).    

Nearby is the intriguingly named Jumbles Terrace (now gone) beside Jumbles Well, one of the many wells which dot the area - hence Smalewell (small well) Road.

Si wrote: Nearby is the intriguingly named Jumbles Terrace (now gone) beside Jumbles Well, one of the many wells which dot the area - hence Smalewell (small well) Road. Hi Si I would think that the settlement that is now Pudsey started around the Smalewell area.If you think about it its the highest part of Pudsey also water is no problem plenty of food from the woods eg Black Carr fish in the beck and Sainsburys down the road.lol

tilly wrote: Si wrote: Nearby is the intriguingly named Jumbles Terrace (now gone) beside Jumbles Well, one of the many wells which dot the area - hence Smalewell (small well) Road. Hi Si I would think that the settlement that is now Pudsey started around the Smalewell area.If you think about it its the highest part of Pudsey also water is no problem plenty of food from the woods eg Black Carr fish in the beck and Sainsburys down the road.lol Could be. Pudsey is made up of several settlements which have joined-up over time, the main three being Fartown, Chapeltown and Lowtown. You can add to this Fulneck, Delph End (Gib), Greenside, Littlemoor, etc. Further afield there's Troydale, Swinnow, Stanningley, and even Calverley.

It's not to do with Windmill hill sadly Si.But it is Pudsey. I think i found where the air shaft for Greenside tunnel is on the surface a while ago.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn ... dsrailways(I think it's not a million miles away from your tiled passge question)    

Phill_dvsn wrote: It's not to do with Windmill hill sadly Si.But it is Pudsey. I think i found where the air shaft for Greenside tunnel is on the surface a while ago.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn ... dsrailways(I think it's not a million miles away from your tiled passge question)     That could be it, BUT... I was told it's under the garages to the right of that spot. My uncle used to live there, and one of the garages was his. Also, looking at old maps with the shaft marked on them, it was several yards to the right. However, get digging in that garden and prove my uncle and the maps wrong, but tie yourself to a nearby tree first!!!PS Yes, the tiled passage is near there, and Windmill Hill (the lane) starts dead opposite on Smalewell Road!

Phill - if you compare your Flickr aerial shot with this 1908 map, the depression in the garden is where the red dot is, IMO. They are pretty close though, and taking into account a margin of error on the part of the cartographer, you could be right.The windmill is at the top of the map, and the passage is (was?) in the square to the left of Newell's Square, on the right edge of the map. The inn on the left edge is the Fox and Grapes, which is still there.        

I'm going to look into this a bit closer. I gotta say that circular ring on Google is there for a reason. You see things from the air you can't from ground level.. I'm gonna compare these maps now. I may be some time lol.Cheers Si

Phill_dvsn wrote: I'm going to look into this a bit closer. I gotta say that circular ring on Google is there for a reason. Paddling pool? Trampoline?