No mill is mentioned in Domesday Book| for Wootton. This is not particularly surprising as there is little in the way of significant running water in the parish and windmills were not introduced into England before the end of the 12th century. Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service has just two references to a windmill in Wootton, both from the middle of the 17th century.

The first of these was in 1650 when Edmund Wingate of Ampthill and his son, Button covenanted to levy a fine in order to convey lands to trustees. The lands were property of the manors of Studleys |and Cannons| and included a windmill [F520]. The second reference is in 1658 in a receipt given by Button Wingate and his wife Mary of Wootton to William Foster of Bedford for a cottage in the village and "divers other cottages, windmills and parcels of land" which were clearly significant since the sum involved was £800.