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<h1 class="gmail-section-theme-background-indicator gmail-publication-font">Fancy taking over Wales’ last working windmill?</h1><p>Anglesey Council is looking for applicants to take over the running of the 18th century Melin Llynnon in a bid to cut costs</p><div class="gmail-byline"><div class="gmail-sharebar" style="top: 79px;"><ul><li class="gmail-count-shares"><span class="gmail-count-text gmail-initial gmail-publication-theme">Share</span></li><li class="gmail-sharebar-provider"><br></li><li class="gmail-sharebar-provider"><br></li><li class="gmail-sharebar-provider"><br></li><li class="gmail-sharebar-provider"><br></li><li class="gmail-sharebar-provider"><br></li><li class="gmail-sharebar-provider"><br></li><li class="gmail-sharebar-provider"><br></li><li class="gmail-count-shares gmail-last"><br></li></ul></div><div class="gmail-article-information"><div class="gmail-author-information-container"><span class="gmail-author-label">By</span><div class="gmail-author"><a class="gmail-publication-theme" href="https://www.dailypost.co.uk/authors/gareth-wyn-williams/">Gareth Wyn-Williams</a><span class="gmail-job-title">Local Democracy Reporter</span></div></div><ul class="gmail-time-info"><li>12:12, 6 NOV 2018</li></ul></div><div class="gmail-article-type gmail-publication-font"><a class="gmail-channel-name gmail-section-theme-highlight" href="https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/">News</a></div></div><div class="gmail-article-wrapper"><div class="gmail-content-column gmail-p402_hide"><div> <div class="gmail-iya-test-wrapper"> <div class="gmail-iya-test"> <div class="gmail-iya-info"> <span class="gmail-h3">Enter your <span>postcode to see news</span> and <span>information</span> near you</span> <span class="gmail-p">Community updates, Crime Statistics, Local News & Events and much more...</span><form class="gmail-iya-postcode-search"> <input class="gmail-iya-postcode-new"> </form></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail-iya-test-wrapper"><div class="gmail-iya-test"><div class="gmail-iya-info"><form class="gmail-iya-postcode-search"></form> </div></div></div></div><div>
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<span class="gmail-video-headline gmail-publication-font">Melin Llynnon windmill on Anglesey</span>
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</div></div><div class="gmail-article-body"><form class="gmail-skinny-signup gmail-skinny-signup-top gmail-publication-theme-border gmail-publication-theme-background-with-transparency"><span class="gmail-skinny-header">Get <u class="gmail-name">daily</u> updates directly to your inbox</span><div class="gmail-skinny-form"><input type="text"></div></form></div><form class="gmail-skinny-signup gmail-skinny-signup-top gmail-publication-theme-border gmail-publication-theme-background-with-transparency"><div class="gmail-skinny-form"><div class="gmail-bottom-links"><span class="gmail-privacy">See our <a href="https://www.dailypost.co.uk/privacy-policy/">privacy notice</a></span></div></div></form><p>Applicants are being sought to take over Wales’ only working windmill in a bid to keep the popular tourist attraction open.</p> <p> For several years, <a href="http://www.dailypost.co.uk/all-about/anglesey-council">Anglesey Council</a> has been <a href="https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/iconic-anglesey-tourist-attractions-could-12056788">trying to farm off the running of Melin Llynnon</a> in a bid to cut costs – on the proviso that it remains open to the public and a feasible business plan is presented. </p> <p>The
windmill built in Llanddeusant, near Bodedern in 1775 was restored
during the early 1980’s by the then island borough council and remains
the only working windmill in Wales.</p> <p>The authority, describing the
“unique opportunity to lease one of Anglesey’s top tourist
attractions,” is asking for a guide rent of £21,000 a year to take over
its running.</p> <p>An advertisement posted on the council's website
said: "The council is offering the property on a full repairing and
insuring lease with a requirement that the site is to remain as a
tourist attraction, open to the public and comply with the Isle of
Anglesey County Council’s bilingual language policy.</p>
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<span class="gmail-caption">Llynnon Mill, LLanddeusant, Ynys Mon</span>
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<p>“The craft shop and café, which are included within the demise, both have sitting tenants generating an income.”</p>
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<p> Earlier this year, in a bid to keep the sails turning, <a href="https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/only-working-windmill-wales-saved-14595738">councillors approved a £40,000 one-off payment to keep the attraction open for 2018.</a> </p> <p>However, its future after 2019 remains unknown if no lease holders are found.</p> <p>
In 2007 the site was expanded with the addition of a replicated
prehistoric village which includes two 10m diameter roundhouses
furnished with the sort of household implements and tools that Iron Age
inhabitants would have used in their daily lives.</p>
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<span class="gmail-caption">Melin Llynnon is Wales' only working windmill</span>
<p>The windmill also has an associated shop and cafe, which are the only such amenities available in the village.</p>
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<p> While there were once over 30 working windmills on <a href="https://www.dailypost.co.uk/all-about/anglesey">Anglesey</a>, all had fallen into disrepair by the early 20th century. </p> <p>But Melin Llynnon was specifically earmarked for restoration due to it still retaining much of its original machinery.</p> <p>For more information visit <a href="http://www.anglesey.gov.uk/business/land-and-property/commercial-properties-to-let/llynnon-mill-llanddeusant-isle-of-anglesey-ll65-4ab/134843.article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> </p>
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