Windmills_in_the_United_Kingdom
This is a list of windmills and windpumps in the United Kingdom.
The list is divided into the current ceremonial counties of England:
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Bracknell | Amen Corner Mill | Demolished by 1936[1] | ||||
Cookham | Sutton Farm | Titt iron wind engine | 1894 | |||
Easthampstead | Caesars Camp[2] | |||||
Faringdon | Wadley House | Titt iron wind engine | 1900 | |||
Lockinge | Lockinge Downs | Titt iron wind engine | 1895 | |||
Slough | Salt Hill Mill[3] | Smock | Moved to Great Thurlow, Suffolk[4] | |||
Slough | Salt Hill Mill (2nd mill)[5] |
Smock[5] | Moved to Luton, Kent 1848.[5] | |||
Winkfield | Chavey Down Mill[6] | |||||
Winkfield | Maiden's Green Mill[6] |
- Mock mill
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Windmills in Cheshire, including those now within Merseyside.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Bidston | Bidston Windmill SJ 287 894 |
tower | Late 18th century[8] | Windmill World | ||
Bromborough | Bromborough Mills | tower | 1870[9] | 1870 | ||
Buerton | Buerton Mill SJ 686 440 |
Tower | Late 18th or early 19th century[10] | Windmill World | ||
Burland | Ravensmoor Mill SJ 623 530 |
Tower | Early 19th century[11] | Windmill World | ||
Burton | Burton Windmill SJ 313 745 |
Post | 1771[12] | Demolished, only 8 courses of roundhouse remain.[12] Windmill World |
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Gayton | Gayton Mill SJ 278 812 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Great Saughall | Gibbet Mill SJ 364 723 |
Tower | Late 18th century[13] | Windmill World | ||
Halton | SJ 519 829 | |||||
Helsby | Hornsmill, Hapsford SJ 481 741 |
19th century[citation needed] | ||||
Helsby | Helsby Mill | Tower[3] | ||||
Neston | Great Neston Mill SJ 289 781 |
Tower | Mid-18th century[14] | Windmill World | ||
Penketh | Penketh Mill[15] | Post | ||||
Threapwood | Bevan's Mill SJ 442 452 |
Tower | Early 18th century[16] | Windmill World | ||
Upton-by-Chester | Dean's Mill SJ 409 688 |
Tower | c. 1775[17] | Windmill World | ||
Willaston | Willaston Mill SJ 328 785 |
Tower | 1805[18] | Windmill World |
Cornwall
Cumbria
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cardewlees | Cardewlees Mill NY 347 513 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Cockermouth | Cockermouth Mill NY 118 308 |
Tower | Early 19th century[19] | Windmill World | ||
Hodbarrow | Haverigg Mill SD 184 783 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Langrigg | Langrigg Mill NY 170 455 |
Tower | Early 19th century[20] | Windmill World | ||
Monkhill | Monkhill Mill NY 342 585 |
Tower | Late 18th century[21] | Windmill World | ||
Wigton | Wigton Mill NY 252 488 |
Tower | ||||
Workington | Schoose Mill NY 014 279 |
Tower | Windmill World |
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Easton | Cottonfields Mill Angel Mill[22] SY 691 714 |
Tower | 1710 | 1710[23] | Windmill World | |
Easton | Top Growlands Mill South Mill[22] SY 692 713 |
Tower | 1710 | 17th century[24] | Windmill World | |
Gillingham | The Kendalls | Titt iron wind engine | 1895 | |||
Melbury Abbas | Cann Mill ST 872 208 |
Tower | 1970[25] | Demolished 2009[25] Windmill World |
- Maps
- 1710 John Hutchins
Durham
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cleadon | Cleadon Mill NZ 389 632 |
Tower | Early 19th century[26] | |||
Easington | Jackson's Mill NZ 409 437 |
Tower | 1832[27] | Windmill World | ||
Easington | Thorpe Moor Mill NZ 412 422 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Elwick | New Mill NZ 449 315 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Ferryhill | Dean Bank Mill Broom Mill NZ 276 326 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Fulwell | Fulwell Mill NZ 392 595 |
Demolished c. 1821[28] | ||||
Fulwell | Fulwell Mill NZ 392 595 |
Tower | c. 1821[28] | Windmill World | ||
Gateshead | Windmill Hill Mill | Post | 1898[29] | 1898[29] | ||
Gateshead | Windmill Hill (6 mills in addition to that listed above) | Post | Last one demolished in 1890.[30] | |||
Gateshead | Gateshead Mill NZ 208 614 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Gateshead | Borough Mill NZ 2494 6262 |
Tower | 1837[30] | Demolished July 1927.[30] | ||
Newton Aycliffe | Heworth Mill NZ 290 219 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Redworth | Redworth Mill NZ 229 234 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Ushaw Moor | Ushaw Moor Mill NZ 215 438 |
Tower | 1817[31] | Windmill World | ||
West Boldon | West Mill NZ 354 612 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Whickham | Whickham Mill NZ 210 610 |
Tower | c. 1720[32] | Windmill World | ||
Whitburn | Whitburn Mill NZ 407 625 |
Tower | 1790[33] | Windmill World |
East Riding of Yorkshire
East Sussex
Essex
Gloucestershire
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Almondsbury | Titt iron wind engine | c. 1894 | ||||
Almondsbury | ST 608 839 | OS 1830 | 1777 | |||
Arlingham | SO 715 108 | |||||
Barnwood | SO 841 180 | 1777 | ||||
Brimpsfield | SO 933 114 | OS 1830 | 1824 | |||
Bristol | Clifton Down Mill ST 566 733 |
Tower | 18th century[34] | Converted to camera obscura, 1828.[34] Windmill World |
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Dursley | Cam Mills | Titt iron wind engine | 1901 | |||
Dursley | Titt iron wind engine | 1898 | ||||
Dymock | SO 7090 2913 | Smock mill | ||||
Falfield | Falfield Mill ST 6839 9299 |
Tower | 1708[35] | Windmill World | ||
Forthampton | (two mills)[36] | 1291[36] | 1291[36] | |||
Forthampton | 1636[36] | 1672[36] | ||||
Forthampton | Alcock's Mill SO 868 324[36] |
Tower[36] | 1845[36] | 1859[36] | ||
Forthampton | Mill Hill Mill[36] | 1759[36] | 1759[36] | |||
Forthampton | Swinley Mill[36] | 1538[36] | 1544[36] | |||
Frampton Cotterell | Frampton Cotterell Mill ST 673 814 |
Tower | Late 18th or early 19th century[37] | Windmill World | ||
Gloucester | SO 831 183 | Post | ||||
Gloucester | SO 832 185 | 1455 | ||||
Gloucester | SO 830 170 | 1624 | ||||
Hazleton | Grange Mill SP 078 183 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Newent | Castle Hill Mill SO 720 250 |
Smock | 1920s | Windmill World | ||
Oddington | Martin's Hill Mill SP 212 255 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Quinton[38] | Lower Quinton Mill SP 176 473 |
Tower | Early 19th century[39] | Demolished spring 1951[39] | ||
Siddington | Siddington Mill SU 041 995 |
Tower | Late 18th century[40] | Windmill World | ||
Tidenham | Folly Mill |
Tower ST 537 949 |
Windmill World | |||
Warmley | Warmley Mill ST 667 727 |
Tower | 18th century[41] | Windmill World |
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Windmills that survive today within Greater Manchester. Historic windmills will be listed under Lancashire.
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ledbury | Wellington Heath Mill Approximately SO 709 408 |
Post | 1798[42] | 1885[42] | ||
Moccas | Rollsford Mill SO 361 419 |
Tower | 1832 1835 |
1832 | Windmill World | |
Ross-on-Wye | Waterworks | Titt iron wind engine | ||||
Leinthall Starkes | Leinthall Starkes Mill SO 444 698 |
Mock Smock | Windmill World |
Hertfordshire
Isle of Wight
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
See List of windmills in Lincolnshire, and Lincolnshire's windmills
Merseyside
Historical mills can be found under Cheshire and Lancashire.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bidston | Bidston Windmill SJ 287 894 |
tower | Late 18th century[8] | Windmill World | ||
Gayton | Gayton Mill SJ 278 812 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Great Crosby | Moor Lane Mill SD 329 003 |
Tower | 1813[43] | Windmill World | ||
Lydiate | Forest's Mill SD 380 039 |
Tower | 1768 | Windmill World | ||
Prescot | Acres Mill | Tower | 1908 | |||
St Helens | Ravenhead Mill SJ 502 942 |
Tower | Late 18th century[44] | Windmill World | ||
Wavertree | Wavertree Mill [45] | Post | 1452 | 1916 Windmill World |
- Mock mill
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Heswall | Heswall Windmill | Tower | Mid-1980s | Windmill World |
Norfolk
See List of windmills in Norfolk and List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
North Yorkshire
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
- Mock mill
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
South Dissington | NZ 129 695 | Smock[64] | Windmill World |
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Greetham | SK 951 131 | Smock | Windmill World | |||
Ketton | Ketton Mill SK 972 046 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Morcott | Morcott Mill SK 930 001 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
North Luffenham | Tower[65] | |||||
Oakham | Post[65] | |||||
Preston | Post | Demolished c. 1928[65] | ||||
Seaton | SP 907 976 | Post | Demolished c. 1928[65] Windmill World |
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South Luffenham | South Luffenham Mill SK 947 025 |
Tower[65] | Windmill World | |||
Whissendine | Whissendine Mill SK 823 143 |
Tower | 1809 | Windmill World |
Shropshire
Somerset
South Yorkshire
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Tyne and Wear
Windmills standing today in Tyne and Wear, historic windmills are listed under Co Durham or Northumberland as appropriate.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cleadon | Cleadon Mill NZ 389 632 |
Tower | Early 19th century[26] | Windmill World | ||
Fulwell | Fulwell Mill NZ392 595 |
Tower | c. 1821[28] | Windmill World | ||
Newcastle | Chimney Mill NZ 240 656 |
Smock | 1793 upminster | 1782[60] | Windmill World[permanent dead link] | |
Whitburn | Whitburn Mill NZ 210 610 |
Tower | 1790[33] | Windmill World |
Warwickshire
West Midlands
Windmills standing today in the West Midlands. Historical mills can be found under Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berkswell | Balsall Common Mill SP 249 759 |
Tower | 1826 | Windmill World | ||
Chesterton, Warwickshire | Chesterton Windmill | Tower | 1632 | |||
Tettenhall Wood | Tettenhall Mill SO 873 991 |
Tower | 1818 | 1818 | ||
Walsall | Highgate Mill SP 017 975 |
Tower | 1826 | Windmill World | ||
Wightwick | Wightwick mill SO 871 981 |
Tower | 1720 |
- Maps
- 1818 C & G Greenwood
West Sussex
West Yorkshire
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alvechurch | Weatheroak Hill Mill SP 059 740 |
Tower | 1821 | 1821 | Windmill World | |
Inkberrow | Holberrow Green Mill SP 024 588 |
Tower | 1821 1832 |
1801 | Windmill World | |
Inkberrow | Stonepits Quarry Mill SP 008 568 |
Tower | c. 1840[66] | Windmill World | ||
Inkberrow | SP 038 587 | Post[42] | 1832 | Demolished 1880s | ||
Kempsey | Kempsey Mill | Tower[67] | 1854[67] | Demolished 1875[67] | ||
Redditch | Walkwood Common Mill SP 027 647 |
Tower[42] | 1833[42] | 1848, gone by 1885[42] | ||
Redditch | Approximately SP 039 675 |
Vertical axis mill[42] | c. 1780[42] | Demolished c. 1889[42] | ||
Stoke Heath | Danzey Green Mill SO 951 682 |
Midlands post | 1971[68] | Windmill World | ||
Stourport-on-Severn | Areley Common Mill SO 803 703 |
Tower | c. 1800 | Windmill World |
- Maps
- 1821 C & G Greenwood
- 1832 Ordnance Survey
- "Berkshire". University of Kent at Canterbury. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
- "EASTHAMPSTEAD". Britannia.com. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
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- "Developments at Cann Mills". Windmill World. Retrieved 9 March 2009.
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- "Gateshead, Windmill Hills, Windmill". Tyne & Wear Sitelines. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- "Forthampton". British History Online. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
- In Warwickshire since 1934
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Historic England. "THE ROUND HOUSE, SIDDINGTON, COTSWOLD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (1090069)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 November 2008.
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- "Berwick Castle". Friends of Castle Parks. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- Actually a water tower
- Wailes, Rex (1991). Lincolnshire Windmills. Heckington: Friends of Heckington mill. pp. 106–108, 118, 250. ISBN 0-9518795-0-2.
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- "Kempsey Windmill". Andy Morrall. Archived from the original on 25 October 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
- Windmill World Extensive and well-researched site run by Mark Berry.