Local Fact of the Day: the windmill that made salt, not flour 🧂

St Monans’ windmill was not built to grind flour. At the St Philips saltworks, opened in 1772, its sails powered machinery that pumped seawater uphill to nine panhouses. Coal fires then heated the great pans until the water evaporated and salt remained. The works survived into the 1820s, and the restored tower is now Fife’s last remaining windmill—a striking reminder of the East Neuk’s industrial coast. Have you visited? Vote Yes or No below. 💙 Sources: Historic Environment Scotland https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM5529 Fife Coast & Countryside Trust https://fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk/pins/st-monans-windmill/ Photograph: St Monans windmill and remains of the saltpans by Richard Sutcliffe · CC BY-SA 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Monans_windmill_and_remains_of_the_saltpans_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6163565.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Original photograph shown without edits.