Other English windmills to visit

English Windmills in Sail

Open to the public at least once during year

This list covers cornmills only, not watermills or windpumps.
Where no location is listed, it is the same as windmill’s name
Mills closed for repairs are not included..

 

 

Compiled by Ulla Wiberg from the SPAB Mills Section List
See the website nationalmillsweekend.co.uk for links.

Bedfordshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Stevington 1770 post 4 common tailpole rough working order

Buckinghamshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Milton Keynes Bradwell early 1800s tower 2 spring, 2 common chain wheel milling flour
  Brill 1685 post 4 common tailpole too fragile to turn
  Lacey Green ca 1650 smock 4 common FT no longer turning, oldest smock
Ivinghoe Pitstone 1627 post 4 common tailpole National Trust, no longer turning
  Quainton 1865 tower 4 double patent FT open but not milling, head frame weak

 

Cambridgeshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Bourn 1636 post 2 common, 2 spring tailpole open trestle
Willingham Cattells 1828 smock 4 double patent FT working order, milling planned
  Fulbourn 1808 smock 4 double patent FT turns clockwise
Swaffham Prior Fosters 1857 tower 4 double patent FT milling and selling flour
  Haddenham Great Mill 1803 tower 4 double patent FT largest cap in Cambs.
Histon Impington 1776 smock 4 double patent FT milling planned
Burwell Stevens 1820 tower 4 double patent FT working order
  Wicken 1813 smock 4 double patent FT milling and selling flour, turns clockwise, 12 sided
             

Derbyshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Heage 1797 tower 6 patent FT mills and sells flour

Essex

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Ashdon aka Braggs 1757 post 2 patent 2 double patent tailpole being restored
Finchingfield Duck End 1756 post 4 spring tailpole smallest in Essex
Thaxted Lowes aka John Webbs 1804 tower 2 patent, 2 double patent FT milling and selling flour, is also museum
  Mountnessing 1807 post 4 spring tailpole working order, some milling
  Rayleigh 1809 tower 2 common, 2 spring FT museum only, no machinery
  Stansted Mountfichet 1787 tower 4 patent FT not working but sails turn
  Stock ca 1800 tower 4 patent FT some milling

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Greater London

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Brixton Ashbys 1816 tower 2 common, 2 double patent by hand sails turn, milling by electricity
Croydon Shirley 1855 tower 4 double patent FT most machinery remains
  Wimbledon 1817 smock 4 double patent FT museum only

 

Upminster (1803, smock, 4 patent, FT) is closed for refurbishment but hopes to reopen summer 2018.

Hampshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Bursledon 1814 tower 4 common endless chain milling and selling flour

Hertfordshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Ardeley Cromer 1681 post 4 patent FT ground level sails turn, working order but not milling

Isle of Wight

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Bembridge aka Knowles  ca 1700 tower 4 common chain wheel National Trust, most machinery intact

Kent

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Stelling Minnis Davisons 1866 smock 4 double patent FT museum, working order
Margate Drapers 1845 smock 4 double patent FT working order, milling but not selling flour
Canterbury Herne 1789 smock 4 double patent FT working order
Wittersham Stocks 1781 post 4 spring tailpole tallest post mill in Kent, 37 ft, buck now immobile, sails turn
Cranbrook Union 1814 smock 4 double patent FT tallest smock mill, 72 ft, was in working order, sails removed for repair 2016
  West Kingsdown ca 1800 smock 2 common, 2 spring FT most machinery intact
Sandwich White 1760 smock 4 spring FT not working but has all machinery, sails being restored
Ashford Willesborough aka New Mill 1869 smock 4 patent FT milling and selling flour
  Woodchurch aka Lower Mill 1820 smock 4 patent FT working order

Lancashire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Blackpool Little Marton 1838 tower 4 common FT upper machinery intact
  Lytham 1805 tower 4 patent FT used as museum
Thornton Cleveleys Marsh 1794 tower 4 patent FT sails turn, 70 ft tall, much original machinery

Leicestershire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments  
  Kibworth Harcourt 17?? post 2 common, 2 spring tailpole working

Lincolnshire

 

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Alford aka Hoyles 1837 tower 5 patent FT milling and selling flour
Burgh le Marsh Dobsons 1813 tower 5 patent FT turns clockwise, working order, milling flour
  Heckington 1830 tower 8 patent FT milling and selling flour
Boston Maud Foster 1819 tower 5 patent FT milling and selling flour, 80 ft.
Spalding Moulton 1822 tower 4 double patent FT milling and selling flour, 100 ft.
Kirton in Lindsey Mount Pleasant 1875 tower 4 double patent FT milling and selling flour
Grimsby Waltham 1880 tower 6 patent FT working order, milling flour
Brigg Wrawby 1760 post 2 common, 2 spring tailpole some milling done

 

Merseyside

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Birkenhead Bidston ca 1800 tower 4 common chain wheel most machinery remains

 

Norfolk

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
King’s Lynn Great Bircham 1846 tower 4 double patent FT fully restored but not milling
  Old Buckenham 1818 tower 4 double patent FT whips only at present, largest diam 23 ft curb ring
  Thrigby new post 4 common tailpole copy of 1790s mill
Wymondham Wicklewood 1845 tower 4 double patent FT new sails October 2012

 

Nottinghamshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Sneinton Greens 1807 tower 2 spring, 2 common FT milling and selling flour
North Leverton Subscription 1813 tower 4 double patent FT milling and selling flour and animal feeds
  Tuxford 1820 tower 4 double patent FT milling and selling wheat, spelt and rye flour

 

Oxfordshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Chinnor new post 4 common tailpole copy of destroyed 1750 mill on same site, nearly complete
  Great Haseley 1760 tower 4 common FT restoration complete
  Wheatley 1764 tower 4 common hand crank on cap tail octagonal, turns clockwise, some milling

Rutland

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Whissendine 1809 tower 4 double patent FT milling and selling various flours and animal feeds

Somerset

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Chapel Allerton Ashton 1760 tower 2 common, 2 spring endless chain in cap cap stiff to turn, not working

 

Suffolk

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Bardwell 1823 tower 4 double patent FT plan to mill flour for sale
  Framsden aka Websters 1760 post 4 patent tailpole open by appointment only
  Holton 1749 post 2 spring 2 common FT ground level most machinery gone
  Stanton 1751 post 4 double patent FT ground level milling and selling flour
  Thelnetham aka Buttons 1819 tower 4 double patent FT milling and selling flour
Woodbridge Buttrums 1836 tower 4 patent FT 61 ft tall, working order

 

Surrey

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Charlwood Lowfield Heath before 1762 post 2 common, 2 patent tailpole restored to working order, rebuilt 1989

 


Sussex, East

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Argos Hill 1835 post 4 patent FT on tailpole under restoration, sails turning
  Chailey aka North Common 1864 smock 4 common FT museum, no machinery
Nutley Marlpits ca 1700 post 2 common, 2 spring tailpole oldest in Sussex, mills on one day a year
  Polegate aka Ovendens 1817 tower 4 patent FT working order
  Rottingdean aka Beacon 1802 smock 4 patent FT, missing twisted, not workable
  Stone Cross aka White aka Blackness 1876 tower 4 patent FT round windows, milling and selling flour
  West Blatchington 1820s smock 4 patent FT hexagonal, on flint and brick tower, museum
  Windmill Hill ca 1814 post 4 patent tailpole plans to mill, now luffed by computer, largest and second tallest post mill

Sussex, West

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Clayton Jill 1821 post 4 patent FT on tailpole milling flour
Keymer Oldland by 1703 post 4 spring tailpole octagonal roundhouse, milling flour
Worthing High Salvington ca 1750 post 2 common, 2 spring tailpole milling flour

 

Warwickshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Chesterton 1633 tower 4 common hand winch circular arcade forms ground floor, earliest with any working parts left, has a wooden lantern pinion

West Midlands

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Balsall Common Berkswell 1826 tower 4 common chain workable order

Wiltshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Wilton 1821 tower 2 patent 2 common FT milling and selling flour

 

Worcestershire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
Bromsgrove Danzey Green ca 1820 post 4 common tailpole full working order, on a museum site

 

Yorkshire

Location Name of mill Built Type Sails Winding Comments
  Skidby 1821 tower 4 double patent FT under repair
York Holgate 1770 tower 5 double patent FT milling and selling flour