Windmills have played a significant role in British history, particularly in agriculture and early industry. This is a list of windmills and windpumps in the United Kingdom.
England The list is divided into the current ceremonial counties of England:
Bedfordshire
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Berkshire
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Bracknell Amen Corner Mill Demolished by 1936 Cookham Sutton Farm Titt iron wind engine 1894 Easthampstead Caesars Camp Faringdon Wadley House Titt iron wind engine 1900 Lockinge Lockinge Downs Titt iron wind engine 1895 Slough Salt Hill Mill Smock Moved to Great Thurlow, Suffolk Slough Salt Hill Mill(2nd mill) Smock Moved to Luton, Kent 1848. Winkfield Chavey Down Mill Winkfield Maiden's Green Mill
Mock mill Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Wraysbury Splash Mill Smock 1996
Buckinghamshire
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Cambridgeshire
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Cheshire
Windmills in Cheshire, including those now within Merseyside.
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Bidston Bidston Windmill tower Late 18th century Windmill World Bromborough Bromborough Mills tower 18701870 Buerton Buerton Mill Tower Late 18th or early 19th century Windmill World Burland Ravensmoor Mill Tower Early 19th century Windmill World Burton Burton Windmill Post 1771 Demolished, only 8 courses of roundhouse remain.Windmill World Gayton Gayton Mill Tower Windmill World Great Saughall Gibbet Mill Tower Late 18th century Windmill World Halton Helsby Hornsmill, Hapsford 19th century Helsby Helsby Mill Tower Neston Great Neston Mill Tower Mid-18th century Windmill World Penketh Penketh Mill Post Threapwood Bevan's Mill Tower Early 18th century Windmill World Upton-by-Chester Dean's Mill Tower c. 1775 Windmill World Willaston Willaston Mill Tower 1805 Windmill World
Cornwall
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Cumbria
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Cardewlees Cardewlees Mill Tower Windmill World Cockermouth Cockermouth Mill Tower Early 19th century Windmill World Hodbarrow Haverigg Mill Tower Windmill World Langrigg Langrigg Mill Tower Early 19th century Windmill World Monkhill Monkhill Mill Tower Late 18th century Windmill World Wigton Wigton Mill Tower Workington Schoose Mill Tower Windmill World
Derbyshire See List of windmills in Derbyshire
Devon
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Dorset
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Easton Cottonfields MillAngel Mill Tower 1710 1710 Windmill World Easton Top Growlands MillSouth Mill Tower 1710 17th century Windmill World Gillingham The Kendalls Titt iron wind engine 1895 Melbury Abbas Cann Mill Tower 1970 Demolished 2009Windmill World
Maps 1710 John Hutchins
Durham
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Cleadon Cleadon Mill Tower Early 19th century Easington Jackson's Mill Tower 1832 Windmill World Easington Thorpe Moor Mill Tower Windmill World Elwick New Mill Tower Windmill World Ferryhill Dean Bank MillBroom Mill Tower Windmill World Fulwell Fulwell Mill Demolished c. 1821 Fulwell Fulwell Mill Tower c. 1821 Windmill World Gateshead Windmill Hill Mill Post 1898 1898 Gateshead Windmill Hill (6 mills in addition to that listed above) Post Last one demolished in 1890. Gateshead Gateshead Mill Tower Windmill World Gateshead Borough Mill Tower 1837 Demolished July 1927. Newton Aycliffe Heworth Mill Tower Windmill World Redworth Redworth Mill Tower Windmill World Ushaw Moor Ushaw Moor Mill Tower 1817 Windmill World West Boldon West Mill Tower Windmill World Whickham Whickham Mill Tower c. 1720 Windmill World Whitburn Whitburn Mill Tower 1790 Windmill World
Essex
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Gloucestershire
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Almondsbury Titt iron wind engine c. 1894 Almondsbury OS 1830 1777 Arlingham Barnwood 1777 Brimpsfield OS 1830 1824 Bristol Clifton Down Mill Tower 18th century Converted to camera obscura, 1828.Windmill World Dursley Cam Mills Titt iron wind engine 1901 Dursley Titt iron wind engine 1898 Dymock Smock mill Falfield Falfield Mill Tower 1708 Windmill World Forthampton (two mills) 1291 1291 Forthampton 1636 1672 Forthampton Alcock's Mill Tower 1845 1859 Forthampton Mill Hill Mill 1759 1759 Forthampton Swinley Mill 1538 1544 Frampton Cotterell Frampton Cotterell Mill Tower Late 18th or early 19th century Windmill World Gloucester Post Gloucester 1455 Gloucester 1624 Hazleton Grange Mill Tower Windmill World Newent Castle Hill Mill Smock 1920s Windmill World Oddington Martin's Hill Mill Tower Windmill World QuintonIn Warwickshire since 1934 Lower Quinton Mill Tower Early 19th century Demolished spring 1951 Siddington Siddington Mill Tower Late 18th century Windmill World Tidenham Folly Mill Tower Windmill World Warmley Warmley Mill Tower 18th century Windmill World
Greater London
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Greater Manchester
Windmills that survive today within Greater Manchester. Historic windmills will be listed under Lancashire.
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Haigh Haigh Mill Tower 1845
Hampshire
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Herefordshire
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Ledbury Wellington Heath MillApproximately Post 1798 1885 Moccas Rollsford Mill Tower 18321835 1832 Windmill World Ross-on-Wye Waterworks Titt iron wind engine Leinthall Starkes Leinthall Starkes Mill Mock Smock Windmill World
Hertfordshire
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Isle of Wight
See List of windmills in the Isle of Wight
Kent
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Lancashire
See List of windmills in Lancashire
Leicestershire
See List of windmills in 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 andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Bidston Bidston Windmill tower Late 18th century Windmill World Gayton Gayton Mill Tower Windmill World Great Crosby Moor Lane Mill Tower 1813 Windmill World Lydiate Forest's Mill Tower 1768 Windmill World Prescot Acres Mill Tower 1908 St Helens Ravenhead Mill Tower Late 18th century Windmill World Wavertree Wavertree Mill Post 1452 1916 Windmill World
Mock mill Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor 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
Northamptonshire Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Barby Barby Mill Tower Early 19th century Windmill World Blakesley Quinbury End Mill Tower 1832 Windmill World Bozeat Post 1937Windmill World Braunston Braunston Mill Tower c. 1800 Truncated c. 1920Windmill World Cottingham 1536 1720Windmill World Cottingham Cottingham Mill Tower Late 18th century Truncated 1955Windmill World Finedon Finedon Mill Tower c. 1818 Windmill World Great Brington Titt iron wind engine 1894 Hellidon Hellidon Mill Tower Late 18th or early 19th century Windmill World Kingsthorpe Kingsthorpe Mill Tower Early 19th century Windmill World Newnham Newnham Mill Tower Windmill World Rushden Rushden Mill Smock Windmill World Silverstone Silverstone Mill Tower Windmill World Strixton 13th century 13th centuryWindmill World Sulgrave Sulgrave Mill Tower Windmill World Tansor Tansor Mill Tower Mid-18th century Windmill World Tansor Tansor Crossroads Windmill World West Haddon Windmill World Wootton Wootton Mill Tower 1902Windmill World
Northumberland
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Acomb Tower 1720 Truncated early 19th centuryWindmill World Bamburgh Castle Mill Tower 1835 Windmill World Belford Spindlestone Ducket Mill Tower 18th centuryPossibly a dovecote Windmill World Berwick upon Tweed Berwick Castle (two mills) 1333 Temporary mills, probably demolished 1335 when the Castle Mill, a watermill, was rebuilt. Berwick upon Tweed Berwick Castle Tower C17th Standing in 1833. Chollerton Tower Windmill World Great Whittington Whittington Mill Tower 18th century Windmill World Haggerston Tower Windmill World Hartley Tower High Callerton Birney Hill Mill Tower 18th century Windmill World Hexham Dipton Mill tower Windmill World Newcastle Chimney Mill Smock 1782 Windmill World Newcastle Heaton Mill Tower Early 18th century Windmill World North Shields Billy Mill Tower Scremerston Tower Stannington Plessey Mill Tower 1749 Windmill World Woodhorn Woodhorn Mill Tower Early 19th centuryWindmill World
Mock mill Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph South Dissington SmockActually a water tower Windmill World
Nottinghamshire
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Oxfordshire See List of windmills in Oxfordshire
Rutland
Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Greetham Smock Windmill World Ketton Ketton Mill Tower Windmill World Morcott Morcott Mill Tower Windmill World North Luffenham Tower Oakham Post Preston Post Demolished c. 1928 Seaton Post Demolished c. 1928Windmill World South Luffenham South Luffenham Mill Tower Windmill World Whissendine Whissendine Mill Tower 1809 Windmill World
Shropshire
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Somerset
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Staffordshire
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Suffolk
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Surrey
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Sussex
List of windmills in East Sussex List of windmills in West Sussex
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 andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Cleadon Cleadon Mill Tower Early 19th century Windmill World Fulwell Fulwell Mill Tower c. 1821 Windmill World Newcastle Chimney Mill Smock1793 upminster 1782 Windmill World Whitburn Whitburn Mill Tower 1790 Windmill World
Warwickshire
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West Midlands
Windmills standing today in the West Midlands. Historical mills can be found under Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Berkswell Balsall Common Mill Tower 1826 Windmill World Chesterton, WarwickshireChesterton WindmillTower1632 Tettenhall Wood Tettenhall Mill Tower 1818 1818 Walsall Highgate Mill Tower 1826 Windmill World Wightwick Wightwick mill Tower 1720
Maps 1818 C & G Greenwood
Wiltshire
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Worcestershire