List_of_windmills_in_Kent
A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current Ceremonial county of Kent.
Extant (red) and former (blue) windmills in Kent.
1 Barham, 2 Benenden, 3 Bidborough, 4 Biddenden 5 Canterbury, 6 Charing, 7 Chillenden, 8 Chislet, 9 Cranbrook, 10 Eastry, 11 Edenbridge, 12 Copton, 13 Guston, 14 Herne, 15 Kingston, 16 Margate, 17 Meopham, 18 Northbourne, 19 Oare, 20 Ringwould, 21 Rolvenden, 22 Sandhurst, 23 Sandwich, 24 Sarre, 25 Sheerness, 26 Stanford, 27 Stelling Minnis, 28 St Margaret's Bay, 29 West Kingsdown, 30 Whitstable, 31 Willesborough, 32 Wittersham, 33 Woodchurch.
1 Barham, 2 Benenden, 3 Bidborough, 4 Biddenden 5 Canterbury, 6 Charing, 7 Chillenden, 8 Chislet, 9 Cranbrook, 10 Eastry, 11 Edenbridge, 12 Copton, 13 Guston, 14 Herne, 15 Kingston, 16 Margate, 17 Meopham, 18 Northbourne, 19 Oare, 20 Ringwould, 21 Rolvenden, 22 Sandhurst, 23 Sandwich, 24 Sarre, 25 Sheerness, 26 Stanford, 27 Stelling Minnis, 28 St Margaret's Bay, 29 West Kingsdown, 30 Whitstable, 31 Willesborough, 32 Wittersham, 33 Woodchurch.
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More information Location, Name of mill and grid reference ...
| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acrise | Elham Mill Elham Down Mill Manor Mill |
Post | 1596 1610 1736 1769 |
1596 | Blown down in 1876.[1] | |
| Acrise | Elham Mill | Smock | 1878 | Working until June 1916. Demolished 6 July 1919.[1] | ||
| Acrise | Acrise Mill | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) south east of Acrise Church.[2] | |
| Adisham | Bekesbourne Mill | Smock | 1843 | Standing by 1843. Working until c. 1922. Burnt down 29 August 1933.[2] | ||
| Aldington | Aldington Mill TR 056 363 |
Smock | 1878 | Working until c. 1908. Demolished 1910.[3] Base survives, used as a store.[4] |  | |
| Appledore | Horne Place Mill | Post | 1596 1736 |
1596 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) north north east of Appledore Church.[5] | |
| Appledore | Court Lodge Mill | Post | 1596 | 1596 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) south west of Appledore Church. Demolished late C18th.[5] | |
| Appledore | Great Mill, Union Mill TQ 953 304 |
Smock | 1791 | Demolished in 1909.[6] Base survives, converted into a house.[7] | ||
| Appledore | TQ 953 303 | Post | Moved from Playden, East Sussex.[6][Note 1] Demolished 1900. Part of the roundhouse survives as part of a farm building.[8][9] | |||
| Ash (near Sandwich) | Mount Ephraim Mill | Post | 1818 | Moved from Woodnesborough.[10] Blown down 28 October 1955.[citation needed] | ||
| Ash (Sandwich) | (formed a pair with Mount Ephraim Mill) | Post | Demolished before 1879.[10] | |||
| Ash (Sandwich) | Ash Mill | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Stood north west of Knell Farm and 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north of Ash Church.[11] | |
| Ashford | Regent's Place Mill | Smock | 1870 | Moved to Badlesmere, 1872.[11] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Notes | Image |
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| Badlesmere | Boundgate Mill TR 010 532 |
Smock | 1872 | Working until 1921.[12] Demolished 1938. Base survives, used as a store.[13][14] | ||
| Badlesmere Lees | Post | 1695 1736 |
1695 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south south west of Badlesmere Church.[12] | ||
| Bapchild | Bapchild Mill | Stood south of Watling Street, 4 furlongs (800 m) east of Bapchild Church. Standing by 1843. Demolished by 1865.[12] | ||||
| Barfreston | Barfeston Mill | 1769 | 1769 | Standing in 1819.[12] | ||
| Barfreston | Barfreston Mill | Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Thought to have been standing c.1852. Base survived into the 1860s, converted to a house.[12] | |
| Barham | Barham Downs Mill | Post | 1596 1695 1736 |
1596 | ||
| Barham | Black Mill, Barham Downs Mill TR 214 510 |
Smock | 1834 | Burnt down 3 March 1970. Derelict base survives.[15] |  | |
| Barham | Early C18th | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) east south east of Barham Church.[16] | ||||
| Barham | Breach Downs Mill | Smock | 1875 | Working in 1878. Demolished c.1900.[16] | ||
| Barham | Derringstone Mill[17] | Smock | 1855[17] | Stood near the site later occupied by Barham railway station. Moved to Margate in 1869.[16] | ||
| Barming | Barming Heath Mill | c.1800 | Burnt down 1805.[18] | |||
| Barming | Barming Heath Mill | 1829 | 1805 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north east of Barming Church. Standing in 1845, demolished c.1846, gone by 1853.[18] | ||
| Bearsted | Smock | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north west of Barming Church. Demolished by 1873.[19] | ||||
| Benenden | Beacon Mill (south) | Demolished by 1850.[20] | ||||
| Benenden | Beacon Mill (north) TQ 821 325 |
Smock | 1821 | 1821 | Working until 1921. |  |
| Benenden | East End Mill | Post | Stood 2 miles 3 furlongs (3.8 km) east of Benenden Church. Demolished c.1870[20] | |||
| Bethersden | Old Mill TQ 929 407 |
Post | 1596 1610 1736 1769 |
1555 | Moved to Biddenden (Paul Sharpe's Mill).[20] | |
| Bethersden | White Mill TQ 929 407 |
Smock | Working until 1923.[21] Blown down in 1937.[22] |  | ||
| Bethersden | Little Mill (1st site) | Smock | Six-sailed saw mill. Moved from Sandgate. Moved to 2nd site.[23] | |||
| Bethersden | Little Mill (2nd site) | Smock | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north north east of Bethersden Church, near the Black Mill. A six-sailed saw mill moved from a location within Bethersden village. Demolished c.1896.[23] | |||
| Bethersden | Black Mill TQ 929 407 |
Smock | c.1886 | Moved from Folkestone. A saw mill, latterly worked by a suction gas engine. Demolished by 1933,[24] leaving the brick base, which was later demolished.[25] | ||
| Betteshanger | 1596 | 1596 | Stood north west of Betteshanger Church.[26] | |||
| Bicknor | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south south west of Bicknor Church. Demolished before 1865.[27] | ||
| Bidborough | Bidborough Mill TQ 561 435 |
1769 | 1769 | |||
| Bidborough | Bidborough Mill TQ 561 435 |
Tower | 1858 | Working until c.1900. Converted to house in 2006. |  | |
| Biddenden | Beacon Hill Mill, Paul Sharpe's Mill TQ 8495 3706 |
Post | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Moved from Bethersden. Working until 1882. Demolished 1912.[28] | |
| Biddenden | Three Chimneys Mill, Cherry Clack Mill Approximately TQ 815 378 |
Smock | 1859[29] | Moved to Punnetts Town, Sussex in 1859.[29] | ||
| Biddenden | Town Mill TQ 85046 38171 |
Smock | Working until 1914. Was being lived in during the 1930s.[30] Collapsed in 1946.[31] |  | ||
| Birchington | Post | 1414 1596 1695 1719 |
1414[32] | Stood east of the Birchington Church.[30] | ||
| Birchington | Dentdelion Mill | 1610 1695 |
1610 | Stood north east of Birchington Church.[30] | ||
| Birchington | Quex Park Mill, Birchington Mill | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) south east of Birchington Church. Possibly moved within Birchington (Hudson's Mill).[30] | ||
| Birchington | Grove End Mill | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 furlong (200 m) west north west of Birchington Church.[33] | ||
| Birchington | Seed Mill | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north of Birchington Church, near Birchington railway station.[33] | ||||
| Birchington | Hudson's Mill | Smock | May have been moved from within Birchington. Raised c.1850. Working until 1891. Demolished c.1900.[33] | |||
| Blean | Glover's Old Mill TR 125 607 |
Smock | Standing by 1843. Demolished early C20th.[34] The base survives.[25][35] | |||
| Blean | Glover's New Mill | Smock | 1868 | Workinguntil 1922. Demolished 1924.[36] | ||
| Blue Bell Hill | Blue Bell Hill Mill TQ 747 621 |
Smock | 1833 | 1833 | Blown down July 1890. Base survives.[37][38] | |
| Bobbing | Goord's Mill | Smock | 1857 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) south west of Bobbing Church. Demolished c.1902.[39] | ||
| Boughton Monchelsea | Haste Hill Mill | Smock | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) north north west of Boughton Monchelsea Chruct. Burnt down in 1858.[40] | |||
| Boughton under Blean | Black Mill | Standing c.1850.[40] | ||||
| Boughton under Blean | Demolished before c.1850.[40] | |||||
| Boughton under Blean | Miles' Mill TR 058 595 |
Smock | c.1793 | Working until 1931, latterly by engine.[40] Demolished in 1942 due to bomb damage. The base survives.[38] | ||
| Boughton under Blean | Richardson's Mill | Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) north east of Boughton Church. Had ceased working by 1925.[41] Demolished during World War Two[42] | |
| Boxley | The Pilgrim's Way Mill | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) west of Boxley Church and south of the Pilgrim's Way. Demolished between 1876 and 1880.[43] | ||||
| Boxley | Boxley Mill | 1837[44] | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of Boxley Church. Standing 1876, demolished by 1880.[45] | |||
| Brabourne | Brabourne Lees Mill | Smock | 1867 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of Brabourne Church. Burnt down c.1871.[46] | ||
| Bredgar | Dean's Hill Mill | Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) west north west of Bredgar Church. Demolished c.1909.[47] | |
| Bredhurst | Naylor's Mill TQ 792 619 |
Smock | 1845 | Demolished c.1914.[48] | ||
| Brenchley | Pixett Hill Mill | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north west of Brenchley Church.[49] Standing in 1860.[50] | |
| Brenchley | Keys Green Mill, Kippings Cross TQ 647 397 |
Tower | 1843 | Working until c.1916 when tailwinded, cap and sails blown off.[51] Demolished c. 1957, leaving a two-storey stump.[52] – c. 1963.[53] |  | |
| Brenzett | Brenzett Corner Mill | Post | 1596 1610 |
1596 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) south west of Brenzett Church.[54] | |
| Brenzett | Brenzett Corner Mill | Post | 1776 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) south west of Brenzett Church. Working into 1920s. Demolished 5 February 1925.[54] | ||
| Bridge | ½ mile E of church | Post | 1596 1719 |
1596 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) east of Bridge Church.[54] | |
| Bridge | ½ mile E of church | Smock | 1829 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south east of Bridge Church.[54] | ||
| Bridge | Bridge Mill | Smock | 1879 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north west of Bridge Church. Working until 1907.[55] Demolished in 1955.[56] | ||
| Broadstairs | St Peter's Mill | 1695 1736 |
1695 | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north north east of St Peter's Church, Broadstars. A mill is also marked on the 1819-43 Ordnance Survey map.[57][Note 2] | ||
| Broadstairs | Clairmont Mill[58] | Post[58] | 1596 1610 1719 1736 1769 |
1596 | Moved to Canterbury in 1858.[58] | |
| Broadstairs | Bradstowe Mill Pierremont Mill[58] |
Smock | 1827[58] | Working until 1907.[57] Demolished in 1909.[58] |  | |
| Brook | Spelder's Hill Mill | Smock | 1820 | Demolished c.1912. Base was standing in 1933.[59] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Notes | Image |
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| Canterbury (environs) |
Standing c.1200[60] | |||||
| Canterbury (environs) |
Standing c.1200[60] | |||||
| Canterbury | St Martin's Mill TR 161 578 |
Tower | 1817 | Working until 1890, house converted in 1920. |  | |
| Canterbury | St Martin's Black Mill TR 162 576 |
Smock | 1816[61] | Demolished 1868,[62] |  | |
| Canterbury | St Lawrence Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) south south west of St. Martin's Church, Canterbury. Burnt down 15 May 1873.[62] | ||
| Canterbury | Dane John Mill | Post | 1731 | 1839[50] | ||
| Canterbury | Franciscan Gardens Mill | Smock | 1846 | Stood 1⁄5 mile (320m) north west of Canterbury Castle.[63] | ||
| Canterbury | St Thomas Hill Mill | 1816 | Standing in 1856.[63] | |||
| Challock | Challock Lees Mill TR 0081 5105 |
1769 | 1769 | Burnt down 1779[64] | ||
| Challock | Challock Lees Mill | 1779[64] | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north north west of Challock Church. Burnt down, date unknown.[65] | |||
| Challock | Challock Lees Mill 2nd mill TR 0088 5093 |
Smock | Struck by lightning and burnt down, 10 February 1906.[66] | |||
| Charing | Charing Mill, Field Mill TQ 957 503 |
Smock | 1821 | 1821 | Working until 1891. House conversion. |  |
| Charing | Charing Heath Mill | Smock | Stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) west of Charing Church. Demolished by 1870.[67] | |||
| Chartham | Hatch Green Mill | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north northwest of Chartham Church.[68] | ||||
| Chatham | Upberry Mill, Gilbert's Mill, Lower Chatham Hill Mill TQ 770 673 |
Smock | 1596 1695 1736 1769 |
1596 | Working in 1885. Demolished autumn 1897.[69] | |
| Chatham | Star Mill Upper Chatham Hill Mill Austin's Mill TQ 778 666 |
Smock | Demolished in 1925.[69] |  | ||
| Chatham | Cherry Tree Hall Mill TQ 759 674 |
Smock | 1860 | Blown down c.1875. Base survived as a store until c.1900.[70] | ||
| Chatham | Chalk Pit Hill Mill TQ 760 670 |
Smock | Burnt down 1836.[71] | |||
| Chatham | Chalk Pit Hill Mill, Field's Mill TQ 760 670 |
Smock | 1837 | Working until, and demolished in, 1887.[72] | ||
| Chatham | Chalk Pit Hill Mill (2nd mill) | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south of St. Paul's Church, Chatham. Marked on an Ordnance Survey map produced between 1819 and 1843.[71] | ||||
| Chatham | New Road Mill, Feather Mill TQ 754 678 |
Smock | Pre 1851[73] | Demolished c. 1890,[74] | ||
| Chatham | Ordnance Place Mill, Bacon's Mill, Belsey's Mill TQ 753 673 |
Smock | 1845 | Used for grinding corn and pumping water. Demolished c. 1900. Base was standing in 1933,[75] but had been demolished by 1973.[42] |  | |
| Chatham | Ordnance Place Mill, Willis's Mill TQ 753 673 |
Smock | 1839 | Demolished c. 1875.[76] | ||
| Chatham | Luton Mill, Mainwaring's Mill TQ 772 658 |
Smock | 1848 | Moved from Slough, Buckinghamshire. Burnt down autumn 1887.[77] | ||
| Chatham | Luton mill (2nd mill) | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south west of Luton Church. Formed a pair with Luton Mill.[78] | ||||
| Chevening | Chevening Mill | 1824[79] | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south of Chevening Church.[80] Standing in 1837, demolished c.1840.[79] | |||
| Chilham | Chilham Windmill | Mid C19th. | stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) north north east of Chilham Church.[80] | |||
| Chillenden | Chillenden Mill TR 268 546 |
Post | 1695 1736 1769 |
1695 | Blown down in 1868.[80] | |
| Chillenden | Chillenden Mill TR 268 543 |
Post | 1868 | Collapsed 26 November 2003.[81] Windmill World | ||
| Chillenden | Chillenden Mill TR 268 543 |
Post | 2005 | Rebuild of mill blown down in 2003. |  | |
| Chislet | c.1200[60] | |||||
| Chislet | Chislet Mill TR 224 679 |
Smock | 1744[82] | Burnt down 15 October 2005.[83] Windmill World | ||
| Chislet | Chislet Mock Mill TR 224 679 |
Smock | 2012 | Residential mock mill. |  | |
| Cliffe | Dance's Mill | Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Burnt down c.1885.[84] | |
| Cliftonville | Gougher's Mill (east) | Smock | 1839 | Demolished November 1875 | ||
| Cliftonville | Gougher's Mill (middle) | Smock | 1839 | Burnt down after 1839 | ||
| Cliftonville | Gougher's Mill (west) | 1836 | Burnt down 27 February 1836.[85] | |||
| Cliftonville | Gougher's Mill (west) | Smock | 1839 | Demolished November 1875 | ||
| Cobham | Cobham Hall Mill | Post | 1596 1610 |
1596 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north of Cobham Hall.[86] | |
| Cobham | Darnley's Mill TQ 672 684 |
Smock | 1852[50] | Struck by lightning and burnt down in 1903.[86] Base survives, house converted.[87] | ||
| Cowden | Polefields Mill | Stood about 4 furlongs (800 m) north of Cowden Church. Demolished by 1843.[86] | ||||
| Cranbrook | Windmill Hill Mill | Smock | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) west north west of Cranbrook Church. Moved to Sissinghurst (Crampton's Mill) c. 1814.[88] | |
| Cranbrook | Satin's Hill Mill | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile 5 furlongs (2.6 km) north east of Cranbrook Church. Gone by early C19th.[89] | ||
| Cranbrook | Cranbrook Common Mill | Smock | 1872 | Stood 1 mile 6 furlongs (2.8 km) north north east of Cranbrook church. Working until 1876. Demolished 9 August 1901.[90] |  | |
| Cranbrook | Union Mill TQ 779 359 |
Smock | 1814 | Working until 1957, restored 1958-60. Tallest smock mill in the United Kingdom. |  | |
| Crayford | May Place Mill | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) north of Bexley Church. Working until 1858.[91] Demolished c.1870.[92] | |
| Cudham | Biggin Hill Mill, Pimlico Mill |
Post | 1829 | 1809[93] | Stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) south west of Cudham Church.[94] Demolished in 1885.[50] | |
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Image |
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| Dartford | Brent Mill | Smock | 1799[95] | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) east south east of Dartford Church. Working until 1886. Demolished c. 1901.[94] |  | |
| Dartford | Hall's Engineering Works, Hythe Street TQ 542 745 |
1795[96] | Demolished c. 1801.[97] | |||
| Deal | Upper Deal Mill | Post | 1596 1769 |
1596 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south of Upper Deal Church. Standing in 1840.[98] | |
| Deal | Upper Deal Mill | Smock | 1855 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south of Upper Deal Church. Demolished March 1929.[98] |  | |
| Deal | Wellington Mill | Smock | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) west of Deal Castle. Demolished c.1890.[98] | |||
| Deal | Lower Deal Mill | Smock | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south west of Sandown Castle. Demolished c.1870.[99] | |
| Deal | North End Mill, Great Mill |
Smock | 1767 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south west of Sandown castle. Burnt down c.1896.[99] | ||
| Deal | Sandown Castle Mill | 1829 | 1829 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south of Sandown Castle.[99] | ||
| Deal | Sandown Mill | Post | 1695 | 1695 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south of Sandown Castle.[99] | |
| Deal | Sandown Mill | Smock | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south of Sandown Castle.[99] Demolished c.1892.[100] | |||
| Deal | Walmer Road Mill | Smock | 1844 | Stood 1 furlong (200 m) south of Deal Castle. Demolished early 1850s.[101] | ||
| Denton | Denton | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north east of Denton Church.[101] | ||
| Detling | Detling Mill | Smock | 1864[50] | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north east of Detling Church. Standing in 1866, demolished by February 1868.[102] | ||
| Doddington | Elvey's Mill, Jarvis's Mill TQ 93395 57405 |
Smock | c. 1820 | Demolished 1937.[103] | ||
| Dover | Dover Castle, Mill Tower | Late C13th | Tower 22 had a windmill erected on it during the time of Stephen de Pencester (d.1303). The mill was demolished during the Anglo-American War under orders from the Ordnance Board.[104] | |||
| Dover | Buckland Brewery | Smock | 1798[105] | A pumping mill.[104] Demolished in the 1890s.[105] |  | |
| Dover | Infectious Diseases Hospital | Titt iron wind engine | 1893 | |||
| Dymchurch | Dymchurch Mill | Smock | 1829 | 1829 | Moved 200 yards (180 m) to a new site within Dymchurch at an unknown date.[104] | |
| Dymchurch | Dymchurch Mill | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of Dymchurch Church. Working until c.1882. Demolished c. 1905.[104] | ||||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Notes | Image |
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| Eastchurch | Eastchurch Mill | Post | 1596 1610 |
1596 | Stood to the south west of Eastchurch Church.[106] | |
| East Farleigh | East Farleigh Mill | Smock | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) south east of East Farleigh Church. Burnt down in the 1830s or earlier.[107] | |||
| East Langdon | Martin Mill TR 34205 46515 |
Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Demolished c. 1954[108] | |
| Eastling | Eastling Mill TQ 958 555 |
Smock | 1823 | Demolished c. 1912,[109] | ||
| Eastry | Post | 1596 1695 1736 |
1596 | Standing in 1839.[50] | ||
| Eastry | Lower Mill | Smock | 1769 | 1743 | Demolished 1926.[109] | |
| Eastry | Upper Mill TR 304 545 |
Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Working by wind until 1913, then by suction gas engine until 1959. House conversion. |  |
| Eastry | (3rd mill) | Smock | Stood about 4 furlongs (800 m) south west of Eastry Church. Standing in 1833, burnt down, date unknown.[109] | |||
| Eastry | (4th mill) | Mid C19th | Stood about 4 furlongs (800 m) south west of Eastry Church.[109] | |||
| Eastry | Eastry Mill | 1736 | 1736 | Stood north of Eastry Church.[109] | ||
| Edenbridge | Edenbridge Mill TQ 444 457 |
Tower | 1815 | Working until 1886. House converted 1990s. |  | |
| Egerton | (near church) | Smock | 1818 | Moved to Stone Hill, c.1818.[109] | ||
| Egerton | Stone Hill Mill TQ 908 471 |
Smock | c.1818 | Blown down 2 December 1919.[110] Base survives, used as a store.[111][112] | ||
| Elham | Elham Mill | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north of Elham Church. Blown down, date unknown.[110] | |
| Elham | Bladblean Mill | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile 5 furlongs (2.6 km) north of Elham Church.[113] | ||
| Elham | Cullen's Hill Mill | Smock | c. 1820 | Stood 1 furlong (200 m) north of Elham Church. Working until c.1918, demolished in 1925 .[113] | ||
| Elmley | 1695 | 1695 | Stood south east of Elmley Chapel.[113] | |||
| Elmsted | Itinge Mill | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Elmsted Church. | ||
| Elmsted | Itinge Mill, Folly Town Mill |
Post | c. 1865 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Elmsted Church. Moved from Petham (Mark's Folly Mill) c.1865. Collapsed c.1875.[113] | ||
| Elmsted | Stone Street Mill, The George Seed Mill (west) |
Smock | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) east of Elmsted Church. Demolished c.1868 .[114] | |||
| Elmsted | Stone Street Mill, The George Seed Mill (east) |
Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) east of Elmsted Church. Demolished c.1876.[114] | |
| Elmsted | Bodsham Green Mill TR 106 456 |
Smock | Stood 6 furlongs (1,200 m) north west of Elmsted Church. Working until 1890. Demolished c. 1895.[115] Base survives, used as a store.[116] | |||
| Eythorne | Upper Eythorne Mill | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) north east of Sibertswold Church.[117] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Notes | Image |
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| Farningham | Farningham Mill | Smock | 1820 | Moved to West Kingsdown in 1880. | ||
| Faversham | Forbes Road Mill, Gravel Pit Mill |
Smock | 1843 | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) south west of Faversham Church. Demolished c.1910.[118] | ||
| Faversham | Hangman's Lane Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) south west of Faversham Church. Demolished c.1855.[118] | ||
| Faversham | Copton Mill TR 014 596 |
Tower | 1863[108] | A pumping mill, tower stands, used as a store. | ||
| Fawkham | Fawkham Mill | 1719 | 1719 | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) east of Fawkham Church.[118] | ||
| Folkestone | Cheriton Mill, Ashley Mill TR 205 373 |
Smock | 1877 | Moved from Hythe. Working by wind until 1902, then by engine. Demolished in 1919, brick base built upon and used as a store.[119][120] | ||
| Folkestone | Cheriton Mill | 1843 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) east north east of Cheriton Church. Standing 1869, later burnt down.[121] | |||
| Folkestone | Cheriton Mill | Smock | Moved to Lympne.[122] | |||
| Folkestone | Folkestone Mill Foord Road Mill |
1769 | 1769 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north of Folkestone Church and 4 furlongs (800 m) east of Folkestone Central railway station.[122] Standing in 1833.[123] |  | |
| Folkestone | (on coast) | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south east of Foord Road Mill.[122] | |
| Folkestone | Dawson's Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south east of Folkestone Central railway station. Moved to Bethersden (Black Mill) in 1885.[122] | ||
| Frindsbury | Quarry Mill TQ 747 695 |
Post | 1596 1610 1736 1769 |
1596 | Burnt down c.1850 .[124] | |
| Frindsbury | Prospect Hill Mill, Little Mill, Manwaring's Mill TQ 736 703 |
Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Struck by lightning and consequently demolished c.1886.[124] | |
| Frindsbury | Prospect Hill Mill, Great Mill, Rose's Mill TQ 736 703 |
Smock | 1843 | Demolished c.1890. Base converted to a pair of cottages, which survive.[125][126] | ||
| Frindsbury | Kimmins' Mill TQ 741 701 |
Smock | 1843 | Demolished c.1865.[127] | ||
| Frindsbury | Frindsbury Mill, House Mill TQ 741 701 |
Smock | 1843 | Demolished 1931.[128] | ||
| Frinsted | Frinsted Mill | 1736 | 1736 | Stood north of Frinsted Church.[129] | ||
| Frittenden | Maplehurst Windmill | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) north west of Frittenden Church. Demolished by 1836.[130] | ||||
| Frittenden | Sinkhurst Green Mill TQ 8127 4252 |
Post | 1829 | 1829 | Possibly moved here from an unknown location. Working until the First World War.[131] Demolished early 1950s.[42][108] | |
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| Gillingham | Stedman's Mill TQ 7712 6905 |
Smock | 1874 | Demolished c.1888.[132] | ||
| Gillingham | Stedman's Mill TQ 7715 6904 |
Smock | 1839 | Moved from Snodland. Struck by lightning and burnt down 28 June 1892 | ||
| Gillingham | Charter Street mill Huggins' Mill |
Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north of St Mark's Church, Gillingham. Burnt down, date unknown.[132] | ||||
| Gillingham | Mulberry Tree Place Mill TQ 797 687 |
Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) east of the Hastings Arms PH.[132] | ||||
| Gillingham | Friday's Mill TQ 798 686 |
Smock | 1839 | Demolished c.1896 .[133] | ||
| Goodnestone | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Stood south south west of Goodnestone Church.[134] | ||
| Goudhurst | Kilndown Mill[135] | Post[136] | 1770[135] | Moved to Nutley, Sussex c. 1817.[136] | ||
| Goudhurst | Town Mill TQ 7249 3794 |
Smock | c. 1803 | Working until late 1870s. Demolished c.1890.[137] | ||
| Gravesend | Windmill Hill Mill | Post | 1596 | 1596 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) south of Gravesend church. Burnt down 1763.[138] | |
| Gravesend | Windmill Hill Mill (south) | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) south of Gravesend Church. Caught fire and remains demolished 1787.[138] | |
| Gravesend | Windmill Hill Mill (south) | Post | c.1787 | Woking until 1856. Later converted to a camera obscura. Burnt down 17 May 1900 to celebrate the Relief of Mafeking.[138] | ||
| Gravesend | Windmill Hill Mill (north) | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) south of Gravesend church, and 120 yards (110 m) north east of the southerly mill.[138] | |
| Gravesend | Denton Mill Sulphur Mill |
1812 | Stood 1 mile (1,600 m) east of Gravesend church and 150 yards (140 m) west of the Ship and Lobster PH. Demolished c.1872.[139] | |||
| Great Chart | Saw mill | Smock | 1888 | Stood 1 furlong (200 m) north east of Great Chart Church. A six-sailed saw mill moved from Pluckley. Demolished in 1928, leaving the base standing.[68] The base burnt down in the 1960s.[42] | ||
| Great Mongeham | Mongeham Mill | 1596 1695 1736 |
1596 | Stood south west of Great Mongeham chuech.[140] | ||
| Guilton | Guilton Mill Ash Mill TR 283 584 |
Smock | Demolished October 1923.[141] Base remains, house converted.[111][142] | |||
| Guilton | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) west of Ash Church. Standing in 1854.[143] | ||
| Guilton | Smock | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) west of Ash Church. Standing in 1854.[143] | ||||
| Guilton | Good Intent Mill TR 283 584 |
Smock | 1854 | Demolished c.1918.[143] | ||
| Guston | Swingate Mill TR 334 444 |
Tower | 1849 | Working until 1959, House converted. |  | |
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| Halstead | Smock | 1820[144] | Demolished in 1829.[145] | |||
| Harbledown | The Old Black Mill | Smock | 1780 | Working until 1890s. Demolished 9 July 1913.[146] | .jpg) | |
| Hartley | 1719 | 1719 | Stood about half way between Midley Church and Hartley Church.[147] | |||
| Hartlip | Friday's Mill TQ 842 650 |
Smock | 1596 1736 1769 |
1596 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north north east of Hartlip Church. Burnt down June 1887.[147] | |
| Hastingleigh | Staple Lees Mill Brown Town Mill |
Post | 1736 | 1736 | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north west of Hastingleigh Church.[148] | |
| Hawkhurst | Old Conghurst | 1719 | 1719 | Stood south of Hawkhurst Church, near Old Conghurst.[148] | ||
| Hawkhurst | Hawkhurst Horn | Post | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) mprtj west of Hawkhurst Church. Said to have beenmoved to High Street site.[147] | |
| Hawkhurst | Pipsden | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Stood 1 mile 30 chains (2.2 km) north east of Hawkhurst Church. Standing in 1874.[147] | |
| Hawkhurst | High Street | Post | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) north north west of Hawkhurst Church. Said to have been moved from another site in Hawkhurst. Demolished by 1880.[147] | |||
| Hawkhurst | Gun Green Mill | Post | Stood 1 mile 3 furlongs (2.2 km) north east of Hawkhurst Church.[147] | |||
| Hawkhurst | Gun Green Mill | Smock | Stood 1 mile 3 furlongs (2.2 km) north east of Hawkhurst Church. Moved to Four Throws c.1870.[147] | |||
| Hawkhurst | Four Throws Mill Nightingale's Mill |
Smock | c.1870 | Stood 1 mile 1 furlong (1.8 km) east of Hawkhurst Church. Moved from Gun Green c.1870. Demolished in 1926.[149] |  | |
| Hawkinge | Old Mill | Smock | 1799[150] | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north east of Hawkinge Church. Working until 1902.[148] Collapsed in 1962.[42] | ||
| Hawkinge | Drellingore Mill | Smock | Stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) north east of Hawkinge Church.Moved to Ringwould (Ripple Mill) c.1810.[151] | |||
| Headcorn | Black Mill Crows's Foot Mill TQ 827 447 |
Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1910.[152] | |
| Headcorn | White Mill TQ 831 446 |
Smock | 1819 | Was working in 1933.[153] Demolished in 1952.[56] |  | |
| Herne | Beacon Hill Mill | Post | 1596 1610 1695 1736 1769 |
1511[154] | Demolished c.1781.[154] | |
| Herne | Herne Windmill TR 185 665 |
Smock | 1781 | Working by wind until 1952, then by electric motor until 1980. Restored. |  | |
| Herne Bay | The Bay Mill TR 180 660 |
Smock | 1839 | Demolished in 1878.[155] | ||
| Higham | Rose's Mill TQ 719 715 |
Smock | 1760 | Demolished April 1921,[156] base remains standing.[157] |  | |
| High Halden | High Halden Mill | Post | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood near the Dragon PH, moved within High Halden c.1800.[158] | |
| High Halden | High Halden Mill TQ 8970 3727 |
Post | c.1800 | Working until c.1918, demolished by 1933 leaving the roundhouse,[159] which had been demolished by 1973.[42] |  | |
| Hildenborough | Watt's Cross mill TQ 558 494 |
Smock | 1812 | Working until 1910. [160] Demolished in 1961, derelict base remains.[161][162] |  | |
| Hoath | Fuller's Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north east of Hoath Church. Working until 1912. Collapsed on 18 July 1919.[163] | ||
| Hoo | Hoo Common Mill | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north west of Hoo church. Demolished c.1799.[164] | |
| Hoo | Hoo Common Mill Ballard's Mill |
Smock | 1799[50] | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north west of Hoo Church. Working until 1880s. Standing in 1905, demolished by 1933.[164] | ||
| Hythe | Post | 1809 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) east of St. Leonard's Church, Hythe and 2 furlongs (400 m) south south east of Hythe railway station. Moved to Ruckinge in the 1830s.[165] | |||
| Hythe | Stade Street | Smock | 1829 | 1829 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) south west of St. Leonard's Church, Hythe. Standing in 1889.[166] | |
| Hythe | Stade Street | Smock | 1829 | 1829 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) south west of St. Leonard's Church, Hythe. Moved to Cheriton (Ashley Mill) in 1877, base was left standing.[166] | |
| Hythe | Stade Street | Smock | 1829 | 1829 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) south west of St. Leonardd's Church, Hythe. Standing in 1829, demolished by 1877.[166] | |
| Hythe | Smock | 1860s | Demolished in the early 1860s'[166] | |||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
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| Ide Hill | 1819[167] | Stood near the west side of Ide Hill Church.[166] Burnt down in 1836.[167] | ||||
| Ide Hill | Post | 1838[167] | Stood 100 yards (91 m) east of Ide Hill Church.[168] Demolished in the 1890s.[167] | |||
| Isle of Grain | Grain | 1596 1610 |
1596 | Stood near the village of Grain.[169] | ||
| Isle of Grain | All Hallows | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) east south east of Allhallows Church.[169] | ||
| Isle of Grain | St Peter's | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 2 miles (3.2 km) south west of St Peter's Church. Standing in 1819.[169] | ||
| Iwade | Iwade Windpump TR 914 688 |
Hollow Post | Windmill World | |||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
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| Kemsing | 1275[170] | 1275[170] | ||||
| Kennington | Kennington Lees Mill | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north west of Kennington Church. Demolished c.1878.[168] | |
| Kennington | Wind, Steam and Water Mill TR 032 454 |
Smock | 1813 | Working until 1892s.[171] Demolished in 1952. Base survives, used as a store.[172][173] | ||
| Kingsdown | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north north east of Kingsdown Church. Demolished c. 1850s.[174] | |||||
| Kingsnorth | Millbank Place Mill | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north north west of Kingsnorth Church.[174] | ||||
| Kingsnorth | Kingsnorth Mill TR 001 391 |
Smock | 1878 | Standing in 1892, demolished by 1933. Base survives, converted to house.[175][176] | ||
| Kingston | Reed Mill TR 174 499 |
Tower | 1872 | Working until 28 March 1915. House converted 2009-10. |  | |
| Knockholt | Knockholt Mill | Tower | 1824[177] | Stood about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Knockholt Church.[178]Working until 1882.[179] Demolished c.1886.[178] | ||
| Knockholt | Stoneings Mill | Post | 1824[177] | A miniature mill, some remains were in situ in 1956.[177] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
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| Lamberhurst | Windmill Farm | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north west of Lamberhurst Church. Gone by 1769.[178] | ||||
| Lamberhurst | Saw mill[52] TQ 675 360 |
Smock[52] | c. 1890[52] | c. 1890[52] | ||
| Lamberhurst | Sussex Mill[136] | |||||
| Leeds | Brogden Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) west south west of Leeds Church. Demolished in 1883.[50][180] | ||
| Leigh | Stocks Green Mill TQ 558 478 |
Smock | 1928 | Moved from Sidley, East Sussex.[181] Collapsed c. 1963[182][183] | ||
| Lenham | 12th century[184] | 12th century[184] | ||||
| Lenham | Town mill | Smock | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south west of Lenham Church. Demolished c.1843.[185] | |||
| Lenham | Town Mill | Smock | c. 1843 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south west of Lenham Church. Burnt down in 1904.[185] | ||
| Lenham | Downs Court Hill Mill | 1828 | Stood 1 mile 1 furlong (1.8 km) east north east of Lenham Church. Burnt down before 1881.[185] | |||
| Lenham | Lenham Heath Mill TQ 913 498 |
Smock | 1769 | 1760 | Demolished in 1925.[186] Base survives, used as a store.[187] | |
| Lower Stoke | ||||||
| Lower Stoke | (2nd mill) | Smock | Standing in 1905, gone by 1933 | |||
| Luddesdown | Henley Downs Mill | 1829 | 1829 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north west of Luddesdown Church. Blown downin 1856.[186] | ||
| Lydd | 1596 1610 1769 |
1596 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north west of Lydd Church.[186] | |||
| Lydd | Old Mill | Post | 1596 1610 1769 |
1596 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) south west of Lydd Church. Burnt down 26 February 1900.[186] | |
| Lydd | New Mill | Smock | 1805 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north east of Lydd Church. Working until 1920, latterly by steam engine. Burnt down 22 September 1927.[188] | .jpg) | |
| Lyminge | Post | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north west of Lyminge Church. Standing in 1819, blown down, date unknown.[189] | ||
| Lyminge | Black Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north of Lyminge Church. Burnt down in September 1891.[190] | ||
| Lyminge | White Mill | Smock | c.1852 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north of Lyminge Church. Demolished in 1920.[190] |  | |
| Lympne | Smock | 1829 | 1829 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) west north west of Lympne Church. Moved from Cheriton, Folkestone. Blown down in November 1891.[191] | ||
| Lynsted | Claxfield, Seed Mill | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) north of Lynsted Church. Gone by the 1850s.[191] | ||||
| Lynsted | Union Mill | Smock | 1736 | 1736 | Stood 7 furlongs (1,400 m) south east of Lynsted Church. Standing in 1870, demolished "a few years later".[192] | |
| Lynsted | Champion's Mill TQ 944 613 |
Smock | 1843 | Standing in 1933. Gone by 1940.[193] Base survives, used as a store.[194] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
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| Maidstone | Sandling Road TQ 758 561 |
Smock | 1819 | 1819 | Gone by 1834. Site now occupied by Maidstone East railway station.[195] | |
| Margate | Humber's Mill Chamber's Mill |
1695 1719 1736 |
1695 | Stood 2 miles (3.2 km) north west of St Lawrence Church, Ramsgate.[196] | ||
| Margate | 1695 1719 |
1695 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) south east of Margate Church. Gone by 1847.[196] | |||
| Margate | Drapers Mill Old Mill TR 363 700 |
Smock | c. 1847 | Windmill World |  | |
| Margate | Little Draper's Mill | Smock | c.1869 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) south east of Margate Church. Moved from Barham. Standing in 1903, gone by 1933, base survived then.[196] |  | |
| Margate | Pumping Mill | Tower | 1872 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) south east of Margate church. Five-sailed pumping mill. Standing in 1894, gone by 1933.[197] | ||
| Margate | Town Mill | 1719 | 1719 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north west of Draper's Mill. Working in 1889.[198] | ||
| Margate | Nayland Mill | 1801 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) west of Margate Church. Said to have been moved within Margate to site later occupied by Draper's Mill.[196] | |||
| Margate | Hooper's Mill | Horizontal | 1791[199] | Demolished c. 1828[108] |  | |
| Meopham | Meopham Mill TQ 639 653 |
Smock | 1801 | Working by wind until 1929, then by engine until 1965. Restored. |  | |
| Meopham | Priestwood Mill | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south south east of Meopham Church. Demolished in the 1850s.[200] | ||
| Milton | Chalkwell Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) west of Sittingbourne Church. Standing in 1878.[201] | ||
| Milton Regis | Meade Mill | Smock | 1878 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north west of Milton Regis Church.[202] Struck by lightning and burnt down 15 August 1954.[203] | ||
| Minster, Sheppey | Pigtail Corner Mill | 1596 1610 |
1596 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) east of Minster Church.[204] | ||
| Minster, Sheppey | Pigtail Corner Mill | Smock | 1695 1769 |
1695 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) east of Minster Church. Working in 1878. Burnt down in 1889.[204] | |
| Minster, Sheppey | 1819 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south east of Minster Church.[204] | ||||
| Minster, Thanet | Minster Mill | Post | 1596 1610 1695 1719 |
1596 | Stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) north east of Minster Church.[204] | |
| Minster, Thanet | Minster Mill | Smock | Stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) north east of Minster Church. Standing in 1882.[205] | |||
| Minster, Thanet | Minster Mill | Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) north east of Minster Church. Standing in 1875, gone by 1882.[205] | |
| Molash | Molash Mill TR 02180 51955 |
Smock | 1843 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south west of Molash Church. Standing in 1877.[140] | ||
| Monkton | 1198[206] | 1205[206] | ||||
| Monkton | Monkton Mill | 1596 1610 1695 1719 1736 1769 |
1596 | Stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) north east of Monkton Church. Said to have been moved to Sarre.[207] | ||
| Murston | Murston Mill | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) north east of Murston Church.[208] | ||||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
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| Newchurch | Newchurch Mill TR 058 313 |
Tower | 1810 | Demolished c.1906. Stump remains.[208][209] |  | |
| Newington | Newington Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north of St. Lawrence Church, Ramsgate. Standing in 1933.[210] |  | |
| Newington | Newington Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) south west of Newington Church. Standing in 1884, gone by 1933.[210] | ||
| Newnham | Newnham Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 30 chains (600 m) north of Newnham Church. Dismantled 1876, tower burnt 5 November 1876.[211] | ||
| New Romney | Post | 1596 | 1500 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north north west of New Romney Church.[212] | ||
| New Romney | New Romney Mill Old Mill |
Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Stooc 3 furlongs (600 m) north north west of New Romney Church, Standing in 1903, gone by 1933.[212] |  |
| New Romney | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 5 furlongs (1.0 km) north east of New Romney Church.[212] | |||
| Nonington | Nonington Mill | 1596 1695 1736 |
1596 | Stood 1 mile 1 furlong (1.8 km) east south east of Nonington Church. | ||
| Nonington | Nonington mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 1 mile 1 furlong (1.8 km) east south east of Nonington Church. Working by wind until 1905, then by engine.[211] Burnt down 9 May 1965.[213] | ||
| Nonington | Seed Mill | Smock | Stood 1 mile 1 furlong (1.8 km) east south east of Nonington Church and 200 yards (180 m) south east of Nonington Mill. Demolished in 1905 =.[211] | |||
| Northbourne | 1596 1736 |
1596 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south west of Northbourne Church.[214] | |||
| Northbourne | Old Mill | Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) west north west of Northbourne Church.[214] Demolished 15 February 1957[213] | |
| Northbourne | New Mill TR 331 521 |
Smock | 1848 | Working by wind until 1949, then by electric motor until 1957. House converted in 1976. |  | |
| Northfleet | The Hive | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) west north west of Northfleet Church.[215] | ||||
| Northfleet | Stone Bridge | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north west of Northfleet Church.[215] | ||||
| Northfleet | Stone Bridge (2nd mill) | 1843 | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north west of Northfleet Church. Standing in the 1850s.[215] | |||
| Northfleet | Fiveash Mill | 1843 | Stood 30 chains (600 m) north of Perry Street Church. Demolished in 1900s.[215] | |||
| Northfleet | Rosherville | Tower | 1832 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) east south east of Northfleet Church. Working until c.1894. Demolished c.1916.[216] | ||
| Northwood | Thanet Mill TR 370 670 |
Tower | 1843 | Demolished in 1961.[42] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
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| Oare | Oare Windmill TR 009 625 |
Tower | 1821 | 1821 | House converted 1963. |  |
| Oare | Oare Marshes TR 012 628 |
smock | A windpump, standing derelict in 1933.[217] Some remnants extant in 1973.[218] | |||
| Old Romney | Post | 1190[60] | ||||
| Old Romney | Post | 1596 1610 1736 |
1596 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) west of Old Romney Church.[212] | ||
| Old Romney | Post | 1596 1736 |
1596 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north west of Old Romney Church.[212] | ||
| Ospringe | Water Lane Mill TR 014 596 |
Smock | 1878 | Demolished c.1915.[219] |  | |
| Ospringe | Union House | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north of Ospringe Church.[219] | ||||
| Ospringe | Union House (2nd mill) | Smock | 1843 | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north of Ospringe Church. Burnt down c.1910.[219] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
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| Pegwell Bay | 1828 | Demolished c. 1830.[219] | ||||
| Penenden Heath | Penenden Heath Mill | Smock | 1800[50] | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) south of Boxley Church. Moved to Folkestone (Dawson's Mill) c. 1840.[220] | ||
| Petham | Mill Downs Mill | Post | 1829 | 1829 | Stood close to Petham Church. Moved to Stelling Minnis (Brambleton Mill) c.1850.[221] | |
| Petham | Mark's Folly Mill Duckpit Mill |
Post | 1865 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of Petham Church. Moved to Elmsted (Itinge Mill) c.1865.[222] | ||
| Petham | Chequers' Mill | Smock | 1821 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) east of Petham Church. Burnt down 1 April 1900.[223] | ||
| Pluckley | Pluckley Mill TQ 9240 4563 |
Smock | 1872 | Working until 1916.[224] Burnt down 1939.[42] |  | |
| Pluckley | Padgham's Mill | Smock | A six-sailed saw mill. Moved to Great Chart.[68] | |||
| Postling | Postling Mill | Post | 1596 1719 |
1596 | Stood to the north west of Postling Church.[225] | |
| Preston next Faversham | Preston Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south of Preston Church. Working until 1919, latterly by steam engine.[226] Demolished in 1943.[42] |  | |
| Preston next Wingham | Old Mill Dunn's Mill TR 257 608 |
Smock | 1778 | Working by wind until 1916, then by engine into 1930s.[227] Demolished in 1959, leaving the base.[42][228] | ||
| Preston next Wingham | New Mill Solly's Mill |
Smock | 1852 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north west of Elmstone Church. Demolished in 1912.[229] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
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| Queenborough | Queenborough Mill | 1843 | Stood close to, and east of, Queenborough Church. Burnt down before 1860.[229] | |||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
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| Ramsgate | St. Lawrence | 1596 1719 1769 |
1596 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) east of St Lawrence Church, Ramsgate.[229] | ||
| Ramsgate | Grange Road Mill | 1719 | 1719 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south south east of St Lawrence Church, Ramsgate. Standing in 1819, gone by 1872.[229] | ||
| Ramsgate | Grange Road Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south south east of St Lawrence Church, Ramsgate. Standing in 1905, demolished by 1930, when the base was standing.[230] Base demolished by 1973.[231] |  | |
| Ramsgate | Hereson Mill | Smock | 1872 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) inland of the East Cliff. Burnt down c.1890.[232] | ||
| Reculver | 1195[60] | |||||
| Richborough | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north east of Richborough Castle. Standing in 1787.[233] | |||
| Richborough | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north east of Richborough Castle. Standing in 1787.[233] | |||
| Ringwould | TR 362 490 | Post | 1695 | 1695 | ||
| Ringwould | Ripple Mill TR 362 490[234] |
Smock | c. 1810 | Working until Second World War, stripped of machinery 1957 and converted to transmitter station. Under restoration to working order since 1994. |  | |
| Rochester | Star Hill Mill The Old Mill TQ 746 678 |
1787 | Demolished c.1865.[235] | |||
| Rochester | Star Hill Mill Friday's Mill TQ 746 678 |
1843 | Burnt down in 1852.[236] | |||
| Rochester | Star Hill Mill Boy's Mill Belsey's Mill TQ 747 679 |
Smock | 1877 | Demolished 1890–95.[236] | ||
| Rochester | Delce Mill TQ 744 674 |
Smock | 1853 | Demolished May 1946.[237] |  | |
| Rochester | Borstal Hill Mill TQ 731 666 |
c.1870 | Demolished in 1885.[238] | |||
| Rochester | Church Mill Horsnaill's Mill TQ 740 679 |
Post | 1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1880.[239] | |
| Rochester | Zenith Mill Huggin's Mill Approximately TQ 740 679 |
Post | 1769 | 1769 | Burnt down 1820s or 1830s.[240] | |
| Rochester | St Margaret's Mill Approximately TQ 740 679 |
Post | 1769 | 1769 | Standing in 1798.[241] | |
| Rodmersham Green | Rodmersham Green Mill | Tower | 1835 | Working until 1917.[242] Demolished in 1969.[42] |  | |
| Rolvenden | Rolvenden Mill TQ 838 315 |
Post | 1596 1610 1769 |
c. 1580[243] | Working until c.1885. Restored in 1957. |  |
| Ruckinge | Ruckinge Mill Approximately TR 029 335 |
Post | 1830s | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) east of Ruckinge Church. Moved from Hythe. Demolished c.1912 leaving the roundhouse, which was demolished c.1924.[244] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
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| Sandgate | Saw mill | Smock | A saw mill. Moved to Bethersden (Little Mill).[245] | |||
| Sandhurst | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 mile 1 furlong (1.8 km) north east of Sandhurst Church. Moved to Boxhurst Farm by 1793.[245] | ||
| Sandhurst | Boxhurst Farm Mill | Post | 1793 | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) east north east of Sandhurst Church. Blown down c.1842.[245] | ||
| Sandhurst | Ringle Crouch Green Mill TQ 804 284 |
Smock | 1844 | Working until 1912. Demolished in 1945, leaving the base standing. Modern electricity-generating residential mock mill built on base in 1997. |  | |
| Sandwich | St Mary's Mill[213] | Post | 1695 1736 |
1608 | Stood north west of the town.[246] | |
| Sandwich | Canterbury Gate Mill[213] | Post | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood north west of the town. Working in 1842.[246] | |
| Sandwich | Black Mill | Smock | 1870s | Stood north west of the town. Burnt down c. 1910.[246] | ||
| Sandwich | White Mill TR 322 586 |
Smock | 1760 | Worked by wind until 1926, then by engine until 1957. Restored in 1960s. |  | |
| Sandwich | Millwall Mill Town Mill |
Smock | 1878 | Stood near St Clement's Church, Sandwich. Standing in 1878, burnt down unknown date.[246] |  | |
| Sandwich | Millwall | Post[213] | Gone by c. 1850.[246] | |||
| Sandwich | Millwall (3rd mill)[213] | Post[213] | ||||
| Sandwich | Sandown Gate Mills[213] | Post x3[213] | ||||
| Sandwich | St Bart's Mill[213] | Post[213] | ||||
| Sarre | Sarre Windmill TR 259 651 |
Smock | 1820 | Working by wind until 1920, then by gas engine for a few years later. Restored 1986-91. |  | |
| Selling | Shottenden Mill Perry Wood Mill |
Post | 1596 1736 1769 |
1596 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) south of Selling Church. Working until 1910, Demolished c.1920.[247] |  |
| Sellindge | Stone Hill Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north of Sellindge Church. Working in 1884. Demolished c.1898.[248] | ||
| Sevenoaks | Near "The Vine" | Post | Said to have been moved to West Kingsdown,[249] there by 1804. Modern research places extreme doubt on the move and considerable doubt on the very existence of this mill.[250] | |||
| Sevenoaks | Knott's Mill Tubs Hill Mill |
1792 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north west of Sevenoaks Church.[248] Demolished during the winter of 1870-71.[251] | |||
| Sevenoaks | Hubbards Hill Mill | 1669 | Stood on Sevenoaks Common.[252] | |||
| Sevenoaks | Hubbard Hill Mill | Smock[253] | 1747[253] | Stood on Sevenoaks Common.[252] Moved to Sevenoaks Weald in 1856.[253] | ||
| Sevenoaks | Melregge (Witley Woods) |
1388 | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) south west of Sevenoaks Church.[252] | |||
| Sevenoaks | Bradbourne Mill[254] | Post[254] | 1904[254] | Blown down 1912.[254] Modern research finds absolutely no evidence that this mill ever existed. Believed to be a Piltdown Man hoax.[255] | ||
| Sevenoaks Weald | Smock[256] | 1862[50] | 1856[256] | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south west of Weald Church.[257] Moved from Sevenoaks (Hubbards Hill).[256] Working in 1880,[257] demolished in 1890s.[256] | ||
| Sheerness | Great Mill Ride's Mill TQ 921 746 |
Smock | 1829 | 1816 | Working by wind until 1905, then by steam engine until 1918. Demolished in 1924, leaving the base standing. Residential mock mill built on base in 2006-08. |  |
| Sheerness | Mile Town, Little Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south east of Sheerness Church. Burnt down 7 February 1862.[258] | ||
| Sheerness | Hundred Acre Mill Marine Town Mill Sea View Mill TQ 924 750 |
Tower | 1860 | Demolished in 1878, leaving a stump,[258] which survives[259] |  | |
| Sheldwich | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 5 furlongs (1,000 m) west of Sheldwich Church.[260] | |||
| Shepherdswell, or Sibertswold | Shepherdswell Mill | Smock | 1857 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north of Shepherdswell Church. Standing in 1910, gone by 1933.[260] | ||
| Shorne | Post | 1315[261] | ||||
| Shorne | Shorne Mill | Post | 1596 1610 |
1596 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north west of Shorne Church.[262] Struck by lightning and consequently demolished.[263] | |
| Shorne | Shorne Mill TQ 689 713 |
Post | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Working until 1870, converted to observatory in 1890s.[262] Burnt down in 1952.[263] Major timbers survived as late as 1986.[264] | |
| Sissinghurst | Crampton's Mill TQ 789 376 |
Smock | 1843 | Moved from Hartley.[265] Demolished on 27 November 1951.[266] | ||
| Sittingbourne | Smock | 1843 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) west of Sittinbourne Church. Standing in 1880, burnt down at an unknown date.[267] | |||
| Smarden | West Mill Town mill Corne's Mill TQ 879 420 |
Post | 1769 | 1680 | Working until at least 1899.[268] Collapsed in 1953.[269] Windmill World |
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| Smarden | East Mill Black Mill TQ 884 429 |
Smock | 1804 | Working until 1923. Standing in 1933,[270] gone by 1953.[42] | ||
| Snargate | 1610 | 1610 | Stood south of Snargate Church.[270] | |||
| Snodland | Smock | c.1839 | Moved to Gillingham (Stedman's) c.1839.[270] | |||
| Southborough | Southborough Common TQ 575 424 |
Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south west of Southborough Church.[271] | ||||
| Southfleet | Betsham Mill | Post | 1829 | 1829 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north west of Southfleet Church. Demolished c.1873, leaving the base standing. Base had been demolished by 1933.[271] | |
| Southfleet | Troy's Island | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) west of Southfleet Church.[272] | ||||
| Stanford | Stanford Mill TR 128 378 |
Tower | 1857 | Working by wind until 1946, then by engine until 1961. Under restoration. |  | |
| Stansted | Stansted Mill | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south south east of Stansted Church.[273] | ||
| Staple | Barnsole Mill | 1870s | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) east south east of Staple Church. Burnt down c.1914.[274] |  | ||
| Staplehurst | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 1 furlong (200 m) west of Staplehurst Church.[275] | |||
| Staplehurst | Staplehurst Mill TQ 787 430 |
Smock | 1805[276] | Working until 1880s. Burnt down 22 June 1911, leaving the base.[275][277] |  | |
| Stelling Minnis | Brambleton | 1736 | 1736 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Stelling Minnis Church.[278] | ||
| Stelling Minnis | Brambleton | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Stelling Minnis Church.[278] | ||
| Stelling Minnis | Brambleton Mill | Post | c. 1850 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Stelling Minnis Church. Standing in 1881.[278] | ||
| Stelling Minnis | TR 146 466 | Post | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Demolished in 1866.[279] | |
| Stelling Minnis | Davison's Mill TR 146 466 |
Smock | 1866 | Working until 1970, restored. |  | |
| St Margaret's at Cliffe | Mill Close Mill | Post | 1596 1695 1736 |
1596 | Stood to the north west of St Margaret's at Cliffe church.[280] | |
| St Margarets Bay | St Margaret's Bay Mill TR 363 436 |
Smock | 1929 | Built to generate electricity. | ||
| St Nicholas at Wade | 1719 | 1719 | Stood about 6 furlongs (1.2 km) west of St Nicholas at Wade Church.[280] Standing in 1719, demolished by 1791.[281] | |||
| Stockbury | 1736 1769 |
1769 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south west of Stockbury Church.[279] | |||
| Stodmarsh | Wickhambreux Mill TR 233 604 |
Hollow Post[282] | Mid-19th century[282] |  | ||
| Strood | Strood Hill Mill TQ 733 693 |
Smock | 1843 | Demolished c.1860.[283] | ||
| Strood | Field's Mill TQ 730 700 |
1843 | Burnt down c.1875.[284] | Image on Medway Council website | ||
| Strood | Killick's Mill TQ 730 700 |
Smock | 1843 | Standing in 1891, gone by 1933.[285] | Image on Medway Council website | |
| Sutton Valence | Town Mill TQ 815 493 |
Smock | c. 1720 | Demolished in 1945,[286] leaving the base, which is now house converted.[287] |  | |
| Sutton Valence | Five Wents Mill | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) north east of Sutton Valence Church. Demolished by 1875.[288] | ||||
| Swingfield | Old Mill | Post | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Swingfield Church.[289] | |||
| Swingfield | Old Mill | Smock | 1872 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Swingfield Church. Blown down in 1884.[289] | ||
| Swingfield | New Mill | Smock | 1885 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Swingfield Church. Burnt down in August 1911.[289] | ||
| Swingfield | Selstead Mill | Smock | 1880 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) north west of Swingfield Church. Struck by lightning and burnt down, spring 1885.[290] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
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| Tenterden | Shoreham Lane | Post | 1599 | Stood 1 mile 3 furlongs (2.2 km) north of Tenterden Church. Standing in 1686.[291] | ||
| Tenterden | NW of church | Stood 5 chains (100 m) north west of Tenterden Church. Marked on an Ordnance Survey map published between 1858 and 1872.[292] | ||||
| Tenterden | Mill Farm | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 5 furlongs (1.0 km) north east of Tenterden Church. Standing in 1819, gone by 1851.[292] | ||
| Tenterden | Goods Hill Mill | Post | c. 1807 | Stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) north west of Tenterden Church. Working until 1890. Demolished in 1896.[292] | ||
| Tenterden | Ashbourne Mill | Post | 1807 | Stood 1 mile 1 furlong (1.8 km) west south west of Tenterden Church. Working until 1910. Demolished in December 1912.[293] |  | |
| Tenterden | Leigh Green Mill | Smock | 1818 | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) east south east of Tenterden Church. Burnt down on 26 November 1913.[294] | ||
| Teynham | Conyer Quay | Smock | 1850s | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north of Teynham Church. Standing in 1850s.[294] | ||
| Throwley | Parsonage Mill | Smock | 1736 | 1736 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) north east of Throwley Church. Working in 1884.[295] | |
| Throwley | Clare's Forstal Mill | Smock | 1872 | Stood 7 furlongs (1.4 km) south south west of Throwley Church. Demolished in 1915.[295] |  | |
| Tonbridge | Uridge's Mill | Post | 1843 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north of Tonbridge Castle. Standing in 1868. Demolished c.1872.[296] | ||
| Tonge | Tonge Mill | 1815 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) south south west of Tonge Church.[297] Standing in 1834.[298] | |||
| Tunbridge Wells | Calverley Mill | Smock[299] | 1769 | 1769 | Stood near St Peter's Church, Tunbridge Wells. Demolished c.1860, Machinery used in a windmill at Crowborough.[300] | |
| Tunbridge Wells | Culverden Mill | Post | 1832 | Stood 30 chains (600 m) west of St John's Church, Tunbridge Wells. Demolished c.1870.[301] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Notes | Image |
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| Ulcombe | Ulcombe Hill Mill | 1769[50] | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) south south east of Ulcombe Church. Demolished c.1850s.[302] | |||
| Ulcombe | Windmill Hill Mill | Smock | 1878 | Stood 5 furlongs (1.0 km) east south east of Ulcombe Church. Working until 1892. Demolished on 16 July 1911.[303] | ||
| Upchurch | Wakeley's Mill TQ 8324 6717 |
Smock | 1843 | Burnt down in September 1910'[304] |  | |
| Uphill | Uphill Mill Hawkinge Mill |
Smock | 1790 | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) west north west of Uphill Church. Working until 1914. Demolished in May 1931.[305] | ||
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Notes | Image |
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| Walmer | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Stood south west of Walmer Church.[306] | ||
| Waltham | Cloke's Mill TR 109 488 |
Smock | 1872 | Working until early 1900s. Blown down on 11 February 1931,[306] leaving the base.[307] | ||
| Waltham | Dilnot's Old Mill TR 110 490 |
Smock | c.1850 | Working until c.1908. Collapsed on 20 May 1910.[308] | ||
| Warehorne | 1596 | 1596 | Stood east of Warehorne Church.[308] | |||
| Warehorne | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north west of Warehorne Church. Demolished c.1900.[308] | ||
| Westerham | Newland Mill[309] | Horizontal windmill | 1792[309] | Standing in 1809.[310] | ||
| Westerham | Windmill Bank | Post | 1596 1610 |
1596 | Standing in 1666, marked on maps to mid-C17th.[311] | |
| Westerham | Hosey Common Mill Hosey Hill Mill |
1830[312] | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south south east of Westerham Church.[313] Burnt down, mid-1870s.[312] | |||
| Westerham | Farley Mill | Post | 1761[312] | Marked on a map dated 1825.[314] | ||
| Westhalimot Isle of Thanet |
c.1200[60] | |||||
| West Hougham | West Hougham Mill TR 268 402 |
Smock | 1802[108] | Collapsed 1951[108] Windmill World | ||
| West Kingsdown | Old Mill | Post | 1843 | Burnt Down May 1909 |  | |
| West Kingsdown | West Kingsdown Mill TQ 582 623 |
Smock | 1880 | Windmill World |  | |
| Westwell | Tutt Hill Mill | 1878 | Stood 1 mile 2 furlongs (2.0 km) south west of Westwell Church. Burnt down in 1880.[313] | |||
| Whitfield | Whitfield Mill | Smock | 1805[50] | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) west of Whitfield Church. Demolished c.1916.[313] | ||
| Whitstable | Borstal Hill TR 105 652 |
1736 | 1736 | |||
| Whitstable | Black Mill TR 105 652 |
Smock | 1815 | Working until c.1905. Subsequently converted to a motel, now a house. |  | |
| Whitstable | Borstal Hill pumping mill | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of Whitstable Church. A pumping windmill.[315] | ||||
| Whitstable | Feakins' Mill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 1 mile (1.6 km) south west of Whitstable Church. Working by wind until 1891. Demolished in 1905.[316] Windmill World | ||
| Whitstable | Feakins' Mill | Post | Stood behind Whitstable railway station.[316] | |||
| Willesborough | Old Mill TR 032 422 |
Smock | 1843 | Demolished in 1868.[317] | ||
| Willesborough | New Mill TR 032 422 |
Smock | 1869 | Worked by wind until 1938. Restored 1991. |  | |
| Wingham | Wingham Well TR 236 568 |
Tower | 1878 | Demolished in December 1963,[213] leaving a stump.[22] | ||
| Wingham | Shatterling Mill | Post | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 6 furlongs (1.2 km) north east of Wingham Church.[317] | |
| Wittersham | Old Mill | Post | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood 3 furlongs (600 m) north east of Wittersham Church. Demolished in 1922.[318] |  |
| Wittersham | Stocks Mill TQ 913 273 |
Post | 1781 | Working until c.1900, then preserved by private individuals. Restored 2002-04. |  | |
| Woodchurch | Place Lane | Smock | Moved within Woodchurch (Upper Mill), 1850s.[319] | |||
| Woodchurch | Upper Mill | Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) north north east of Woodchurch Church, Working until 1910.[319] Demolished in 1940.[320] | .jpg) |
| Woodchurch | Susan's Hill Farm | Smock | Moved within Woodchurch (Lower Mill), 1850s.[319] | |||
| Woodchurch | Lower Mill TQ 943 353 |
Smock | 1820 | Moved from Susans Hill Farm. Working until 1926. Restored in 1980s. |  | |
| Woodnesborough | 1695 1736 |
1695 | Stood south of Woodnesborough Church.[321] | |||
| Woodnesborough | Post | 1736 1769 |
1736 | Stood west south west of Woodnesborough Church. Moved to Ash (Mount Ephraim Mill) in 1818.[321] | ||
| Wormshill | Beddington (north) | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north west of Wormshill Church.[322] | ||||
| Wormshill | Beddington (south) | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north west of Wormshill Church.[322] | ||||
| Worth | Smock | 1769 | 1769 | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) west south west of worth Church. Demolished c.1903.[323] | ||
| Wrotham | Fry's Mill TQ 6283 5776 |
Smock[324] | 1800[325] | Burnt down in 1906.[325] | ||
| Wye | Wye Windmill | Smock | 1843 | Stood 2 furlongs (400 m) west south west of Wye Church. Demolished c.1920. Base standing in 1933,[326] demolished in 1960s.[327] |  | |
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| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Notes | Image |
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| Yalding | Rugmore (Rugmer) Hill Mill | Smock[328] | 1809[328] | Stood 1 mile 4 furlongs (2.4 km) south east of Yalding Church. Standing in 1870s.[329] | ||
| Yalding | Downs Farm Mill | Post | 1844[330] | Stood 4 furlongs (800 m) north east of Yalding Church. Demolished c.1870.[331] | ||
| Yalding | Claygate Mill[330] | 1847[330] | 1847[330] | |||
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- For windmills in Bexley, Blackheath, Bromley, Chelsfield, Chislehurst, Deptford, Downe, Eltham, Erith, Greenwich, Keston, Lee, Plumstead Common, Sydenham and Woolwich see List of windmills in Greater London. For the windmill closely associated with Bexley Heath, see the entry under Crayford (above).
The maps quoted by date are:
- 1414 – Thomas of Elmham (map of Thanet)
- 1596 – Phil Symondson
- 1610 – John Speed
- 1695 – Robert Morden
- 1719 – Dr Harris
- 1736 – Emanuel Bowen
- 1769 – Andrews, Dury and Herbert
- 1829 – Greenwood & Co
Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold.
- ^ Coles Finch states that the mill moved from Playden to Appledore had originally stood at Playden, been moved to Appledore and then moved to Rye, East Sussex (Playden is very close to Rye) before being moved back to Appledore for a second time. Which of the sites it occupied in Appledore after the first move is not recorded.[11]
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