List of windmills in the United Kingdom
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English This is a list of windmills and windpumps in the United Kingdom.
England
[edit]The list is divided into the current ceremonial counties of England:
Bedfordshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Bedfordshire
Berkshire
[edit]Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bracknell | Amen Corner Mill | Demolished by 1936<ref name=Mug>Template:Cite web</ref> | ||||
Cookham | Sutton Farm | Titt iron wind engine | 1894 | |||
Easthampstead | Caesars Camp<ref name=Camp>Template:Cite web</ref> | |||||
Faringdon | Wadley House | Titt iron wind engine | 1900 | |||
Lockinge | Lockinge Downs | Titt iron wind engine | 1895 | |||
Slough | Salt Hill Mill<ref name=Wailes/> | Smock | Moved to Great Thurlow, Suffolk<ref name=Dolman>Template:Cite book</ref> | |||
Slough | Salt Hill Mill (2nd mill)<ref name=Finch>Template:Cite book</ref> |
Smock<ref name=Finch/> | Moved to Luton, Kent 1848.<ref name=Finch/> | |||
Winkfield | Chavey Down Mill<ref name=Winkfield>Template:Cite web</ref> | |||||
Winkfield | Maiden's Green Mill<ref name=Winkfield/> |
- Mock mill
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wraysbury | Splash Mill | Smock | 1996<ref name=Splash>Template:Cite web</ref> | File:Splash mill.jpg |
Buckinghamshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
[edit]Windmills in Cheshire, including those now within Merseyside.
Cornwall
[edit]See List of windmills in Cornwall
Cumbria
[edit]Derbyshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Derbyshire
Devon
[edit]See List of windmills in Devon.
Dorset
[edit]Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Easton | Cottonfields Mill Angel Mill<ref name=Portland>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1710 | 1710<ref name=Easton>Template:NHLE</ref> | Windmill World | File:Ruined windmill near Weston, Dorset (geograph 1954380).jpg |
Easton | Top Growlands Mill South Mill<ref name=Portland/> Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1710 | 17th century<ref name=Easton2>Template:NHLE</ref> | Windmill World | File:Ruined windmill near Weston.jpg |
Gillingham | The Kendalls | Titt iron wind engine | 1895 | |||
Melbury Abbas | Cann Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1970<ref name=Cann>Template:Cite web</ref> | Demolished 2009<ref name=Cann/> Windmill World |
File:Cann Mill, Melbury Abbas.jpg |
- Maps
- 1710 John Hutchins
Durham
[edit]East Riding of Yorkshire
[edit]See List of windmills in the East Riding of Yorkshire
East Sussex
[edit]See List of windmills in East Sussex
Essex
[edit]See List of windmills in Essex
Gloucestershire
[edit]Greater London
[edit]See List of windmills in Greater London
Greater Manchester
[edit]Windmills that survive today within Greater Manchester. Historic windmills will be listed under Lancashire.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Haigh | Haigh Mill | Tower | 1845 | File:Haigh Windmill.jpg |
Hampshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Hampshire
Herefordshire
[edit]Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ledbury | Wellington Heath Mill Approximately Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Post | 1798<ref name=SHW>Template:Cite book</ref> | 1885<ref name=SHW/> | ||
Moccas | Rollsford Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1832 1835 |
1832 | Windmill World | |
Ross-on-Wye | Waterworks | Titt iron wind engine | ||||
Leinthall Starkes | Leinthall Starkes Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Mock Smock | Windmill World | File:Looking across Leinthall Moor - geograph.org.uk - 699316.jpg |
Hertfordshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Hertfordshire
Isle of Wight
[edit]See List of windmills in the Isle of Wight
Kent
[edit]Lancashire
[edit]See List of windmills in Lancashire
Leicestershire
[edit]See List of windmills in Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Lincolnshire, and Lincolnshire's windmills
Merseyside
[edit]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 |
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Bidston | Bidston Windmill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
tower | Late 18th century<ref name=Bidston/> | Windmill World | File:Bidston Windmill.jpg | |
Gayton | Gayton Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | Windmill World | File:Gayton Mill, Cheshire.jpg | ||
Great Crosby | Moor Lane Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1813<ref name=Crosby>Template:NHLE</ref> | Windmill World | File:Windmill, Great Crosby, Merseyside.jpg | |
Lydiate | Forest's Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1768 | Windmill World | File:Lydiate windmill.jpg | |
Prescot | Acres Mill | Tower | 1908 | File:Prescot 1905.jpg | ||
St Helens | Ravenhead Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | Late 18th century<ref name=Helens>Template:NHLE</ref> | Windmill World | File:Ravenhead windmill, St Helens.jpg | |
Wavertree | Wavertree Mill <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Post | 1452 | 1916 Windmill World |
File:Wavertree 1905.jpg |
- 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 | File:Harvest Mouse PH, Heswall.jpg |
Norfolk
[edit]See List of windmills in Norfolk and List of drainage windmills in Norfolk
North Yorkshire
[edit]See List of windmills in North Yorkshire
Northamptonshire
[edit]Northumberland
[edit]- Mock mill
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
South Dissington | Template:Gbmappingsmall | Smock<ref name=Water>Actually a water tower</ref> | Windmill World |
Nottinghamshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Oxfordshire
Rutland
[edit]Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Greetham | Template:Gbmappingsmall | Smock | Windmill World | |||
Ketton | Ketton Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | Windmill World | File:Ketton Mill.jpg | ||
Morcott | Morcott Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | Windmill World | File:Morcott Mill.jpg | ||
North Luffenham | Tower<ref name=Wailes2/> | |||||
Oakham | Post<ref name=Wailes2/> | |||||
Preston | Post | Demolished c. 1928<ref name=Wailes2/> | ||||
Seaton | Template:Gbmappingsmall | Post | Demolished c. 1928<ref name=Wailes2>Template:Cite book</ref> Windmill World |
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South Luffenham | South Luffenham Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower<ref name=Wailes2/> | Windmill World | File:North Luffenham Mill.jpg | ||
Whissendine | Whissendine Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1809 | Windmill World | File:Whissendine Mill.jpg |
Shropshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Shropshire
Somerset
[edit]See List of windmills in Somerset
South Yorkshire
[edit]See List of windmills in South Yorkshire
Staffordshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Staffordshire
Suffolk
[edit]See List of windmills in Suffolk
Surrey
[edit]See List of windmills in Surrey
Tyne and Wear
[edit]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 Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | Early 19th century<ref name=Cleadon/> | Windmill World | File:Cleadon Hills Mill.jpg | |
Fulwell | Fulwell Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | c. 1821<ref name=Fulwell/> | Windmill World | File:Fulwellmillfront1.JPG | |
Newcastle | Chimney Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Smock | 1793 upminster | 1782<ref name=Chimney/> | Windmill WorldTemplate:Dead link | File:Chimney Mill, Newcastle.jpg |
Whitburn | Whitburn Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1790<ref name=Whitburn/> | Windmill World | File:Whitburn Mill.jpg |
Warwickshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Warwickshire
West Midlands
[edit]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 Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1826 | Windmill World | File:Balsall Common Mill, Berkswell.jpg | |
Chesterton, Warwickshire | Chesterton Windmill | Tower | 1632 | |||
Tettenhall Wood | Tettenhall Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1818 | 1818 | ||
Walsall | Highgate Mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1826 | Windmill World | File:The Old Windmill at Highgate, Walsall - geograph.org.uk - 134178.jpg | |
Wightwick | Wightwick mill Template:Gbmappingsmall |
Tower | 1720 | File:Wightwick Mill.jpg |
- Maps
- 1818 C & G Greenwood
West Sussex
[edit]See List of windmills in West Sussex
West Yorkshire
[edit]See List of windmills in West Yorkshire
Wiltshire
[edit]See List of windmills in Wiltshire
Worcestershire
[edit]- Maps
- 1821 C & G Greenwood
- 1832 Ordnance Survey
Northern Ireland
[edit]Scotland
[edit]See List of windmills in Scotland
Wales
[edit]See List of windmills in Wales
See also
[edit]References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Windmill World Extensive and well-researched site run by Mark Berry.