List of windmills in Bedfordshire

A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Bedfordshire. __TOC__

Locations Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Aspley Guise Post Demolished c. 1900 Barton-in-the-Clay Barton Mill Post 1831 1851 Bedford Mill Street 1842 Burnt down February 1844 Biggleswade Franklin's TowerThe Steam Mill Tower 1860 Demolished 1966 Biscot Smock Bolnhurst Post Colmworth Post Cranfield Cranfield Windmill tower Demolished 1966 Dunstable Tower Late 18th or early 19th century Windmill World Dunstable Dunstable Flitwick Standing 1880s Flitwick Smock c. 1850 Burnt down 9 November 1903 Great Barford Smock 1835 Demolished 1907 Henlow Smock 1819 Demolished 1935 Houghton Conquest Post Demolished 1830s Houghton Conquest Houghton Conquest Mill Tower 1830s Windmill World Houghton Regis Smock Replaced by tower mill Houghton Regis Tower 18th century Hulcote Hulcote Windmill Tower 19th century Demolished c. 1880, machinery to Spaldwick Mill, HuntingdonshireWindmill World Husbourne Crawley Pug Mill Vertical axis 1820 Demolished c. 1840 Keysoe Post c. 1800 Blown down 1948 Leighton Buzzard 1212 1212 Leighton Buzzard Flemmon's Mill Post Moved to Whipsnade 1860 Leighton Buzzard Beaudesert Mill tower Early 19th century Demolished 1890s Lower Dean Post 1620 Collapsed 20 December 1959 Lower Dean Post 1765 1762 Rebuilt 1834 Lower Dean Post 1834 Collapsed 1959Windmill World Luton Biscot Windmill Post Burnt down 1841 Luton Biscot Windmill Smock 1842 Demolished 1938 Markyate Post 1222 1222 Markyate Caddington Mill Post c. 1810 Blown down c. 1815 Potton Post 1840s 1853 Potton Tower Demolished 1955Windmill World Riseley Post Standing 1936 Riseley Smock Sharnbrook Sharnbrook Windmill Tower Windmill World Shefford Shefford Windmill Tower Windmill World Stanbridge Stanbridge Windmill Tower 1800 Windmill World Stevington Stevington Windmill Post c. 1770 Windmill World Sundon Post Moved to Toddington 1847 Thurleigh Thurleigh Windmill Tower 1890 Windmill World Toddington Post Demolished c. 1845 Toddington Post 1847 Blown down 1880s Totternhoe Post Totternhoe Doolittle Windmill Tower c. 1820 Windmill World Upper Dean Upper Dean Windmill Tower 1856 Windmill World Whipsnade Post 1860 Demolished 1877 Woburn Woburn Windmill Smock Demolished 1805Windmill World Yelden Post Burnt down October 1877

Locations formerly within Bedfordshire

For windmills in Eaton Socon see List of windmills in Cambridgeshire.

Sources

Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is

Maps

1765 Thomas Jeffrey

Notes

Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.

References