List of windmills in Kent
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A list of all windmill
s and windmill sites which lie in the current Ceremonial county
of Kent
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Windmill
A windmill is a machine which converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. Originally windmills were developed for milling grain for food production. In the course of history the windmill was adapted to many other industrial uses. An important...
s and windmill sites which lie in the current Ceremonial county
Ceremonial counties of England
The ceremonial counties are areas of England to which are appointed a Lord Lieutenant, and are defined by the government as counties and areas for the purposes of the Lieutenancies Act 1997 with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England and Lieutenancies Act 1997...
of Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
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Acrise Acrise Acrise is an ecclesiastical and civil parish in Shepway District, Kent, England, about six miles north of Folkestone. The settlement derives its name from Old English, 'Acrise' being a development of the Old English term for "Oak Rise", the parish being on a small hill, still populated with old oak... |
Elham Mill Elham Down Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 1736 1769 |
1596 | Blown down 1876 | |
Acrise | Elham Mill | smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1878 | Demolished 6 July 1919 | ||
Acrise | Acrise Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1769 | |
Adisham Adisham Adisham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Kent. The village, six miles south-east of Canterbury, and located on the B2046 road between Wingham and Barham, is known as Edesham in the Domesday Book.... |
Bekesbourne Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1878 | Burnt down 29 August 1933 | ||
Aldington Aldington, Kent Aldington is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village centre is eight miles south-east of the town of Ashford... |
Aldington Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1878 | Demolished 1910 Windmill World |
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Appledore Appledore, Kent Appledore is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village centre is 12 miles south-west of Ashford town, and on the northern edge of the Romney Marsh The northerly part of this village is Appledore Heath.... |
Horne Place Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1736 |
1596 | 1736 | |
Appledore | Court Lodge Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 | 1596 | Demolished c1790 | |
Appledore | Great Mill, Union Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1791 | Demolished 1909 Windmill World |
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Appledore | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
Demolished 1900 by Paul Sharp Windmill World |
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Ash Ash (near Sandwich) Ash is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of east Kent about three miles west of Sandwich.The civil parish has a population of 2,767, and includes the villages of Ash, Westmarsh, Ware and Hoaden. The Ash Level, by the River Stour, takes up the northern part of the parish.-History:Ash... |
Mount Ephraim Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1818 | Blown down 28 October 1955 | ||
Ash | (formed a pair with Mount Ephraim Mill) | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
Demolished before 1879 | |||
Ash (Sandwich) | Ash Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 | 1736 | 1736 | |
Ashford Ashford, Kent Ashford is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the Great Stour river, the M20 motorway, and the South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most... |
Regent's Place Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1870 | Moved to Badlesmere, 1872 |
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Badlesmere Badlesmere, Kent Badlesmere is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about five miles south of Faversham. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 111.... |
Boundgate Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1872 | Demolished 1938 Windmill World |
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Badlesmere Lees | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1695 1736 |
1695 | 1736 | ||
Bapchild Bapchild Bapchild, originally Baccanceld, is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about two miles east of Sittingbourne. It lies on the A2, and according to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,068.-Synod of Baccanceld:... |
Bapchild Mill | Demolished by 1865 | ||||
Barfreston Barfrestone Barfrestone is a hamlet in East Kent, UK between Shepherdswell, Eythorne and Nonington and close to the pit villages of Elvington and Snowdown... |
Barfeston Mill | 1769 | 1769 | Standing in 1819 | ||
Barfreston | Barfreston Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Thought to have been standing c.1852 | |
Barham Barham, Kent Barham is a village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury district of Kent, England. It is situated close to the A2 road between Canterbury and Dover, 7 miles south-east of Canterbury and 7 miles north of Folkestone.... |
Barham Downs Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1695 1736 |
1596 | 1736 | |
Barham | Black Mill Black Mill, Barham Black Mill or Barham Downs Mill was a smock mill at Barham, Kent, England which was accidentally burnt down in 1970 whilst under restoration.-History:thumb|left|The machinery displayed on the village green.... , Barham Downs Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1834 | Burnt down 3 March 1970 Windmill World |
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Barham | ½ mile ESE of church | |||||
Barham | Breach Downs Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1875 | Demolished c.1900 | ||
Barham | Derringstone Mill (near Barham railway station) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1855 | Moved to Margate Draper's Mill, Margate Draper's Mill or Old Mill is a Grade II listed Smock mill in Margate, Kent, England that was built circa 1847.-History:Draper's mill was built in 1845 by John Holman, the Canterbury millwright, replacing an earlier mill that had previously been moved here from Nayland Point... 1869 |
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Barming Barming Barming is a civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. It lies to the west of Maidstone, the county town, and had a population of 2234 persons . The eastern end of the parish is part of the built-up area of Maidstone, although the remainder is much more rural... |
Barming Heath Mill | Burnt down 1805 | ||||
Barming | Barming Heath Mill | 1829 | 1805 | Standing 1845, demolished by 1853. | ||
Bearsted Bearsted Bearsted is an ancient village and civil parish in mid-Kent, three miles to the east of Maidstone. The original village site was on the north bank of the River Len, a tributary of the River Medway, and at the foot of the North Downs.... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished by 1873 | ||||
Benenden Benenden Benenden is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the Weald six miles to the west of Tenterden... |
Beacon Mill (south) | Demolished by 1850 | ||||
Benenden | Beacon Mill Beacon Mill, Benenden Beacon Mill is a Grade II listedsmock mill in Benenden, Kent, England which is in need of restoration. The mill has been out of use since 1923 and is privately owned.-History:... (north) |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1821 | 1821 | ||
Benenden | East End Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
Demolished c.1870 | |||
Bethersden Bethersden Bethersden is a small village and civil parish five miles west of Ashford, Kent.The village has two public houses – The Bull and The George... |
Old Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610, |
1555 | Moved to Biddenden (Paul Sharpe's Mill) by 1736 | |
Bethersden | Old Mill | 1736 1769 |
1736 | 1769 | ||
Bethersden | White Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished 1937 Windmill World |
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Bethersden | Little Mill (1st site) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Moved to 2nd site. | |||
Bethersden | Little Mill (2nd site) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished c.1896 | |||
Bethersden | Black Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1886 | Demolished by 1933 | ||
Betteshanger Betteshanger Betteshanger is a village near Deal in East Kent, England. It gave its name to the largest of the four chief collieries of the Kent coalfield.-Before the coal mine:... |
1596 | 1596 | 1596 | |||
Bicknor Bicknor Bicknor is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, England, north-east of Maidstone and south-west of Sittingbourne. It had a population of 68 according to the 2001 census.... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1769 | ||
Bidborough Bidborough Bidborough is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England, north of Tunbridge Wells and south of Tonbridge. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 958.... |
Bidborough Mill | 1769 | 1769 | 1769 | ||
Bidborough | Bidborough Mill Bidborough Windmill Bidborough Mill is a Grade II listed, house converted tower mill west of Bidborough, Kent, England. It is now incorporated into a housing development called Mill Court, on the south side of the B2176 Penshurst Road.-History:... |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1858 | Windmill World | ||
Biddenden Biddenden Biddenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village lies on the Weald of Kent, some five miles north of Tenterden. It was centre for Wealden iron industry and also of clothmaking. During the reign of Edward III some Flemish clothworkers settled in the area... |
Beacon Hill Mill, Paul Sharpe's Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | Demolished 1912 | |
Biddenden | Three Chimneys Mill, Cherry Clack Mill Approximately |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1859 | Moved to Punnetts Town, Sussex, 1859 | ||
Biddenden | Town Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Collapsed 1946 | |||
Birchington | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1414 1596 1695 1719 |
1414 | 1719 | ||
Birchington | Dentdelion Mill | 1610 1695 |
1610 | 1695 | ||
Birchington | Quex Park Mill, Birchington Mill | 1736 1769 |
1736 | 1769, Possibly moved to Birchington (Hudson's Mill) | ||
Birchington | Grove End Mill | 1769 | 1769 | 1769 | ||
Birchington | Seed Mill | |||||
Birchington | Hudson's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c1850 | Demolished c.1900 | ||
Blean Blean Blean is located in the Canterbury district of Kent, England. It is the name of the civil parish as well as the village within it: the latter is scattered along the road between Canterbury and Whitstable, in the middle of what was once the extensive Forest of Blean.The village name of Blean is... |
Glover's Old Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished early C20th Windmill World |
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Blean | Glover's New Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1868 | Demolished 1924 | ||
Bluebell Hill | Bluebell Hill Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1833 | 1833 | Blown down July 1890 Windmill World |
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Bobbing Bobbing, Kent Bobbing is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about a mile north-west of Sittingbourne, and forming part of its urban area. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,694.... |
Goord's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1857 | Demolished 1902 | ||
Boughton Monchelsea Boughton Monchelsea For other Boughtons in Kent see Boughton Aluph; Boughton under Blean and Boughton MalherbeThe village and civil parish of Boughton Monchelsea is in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. The civil parish lies on a ragstone ridge situated between the North Downs and the Weald of Kent and has... |
Haste Hill Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Burnt Down 1858 | |||
Boughton under Blean Boughton under Blean For other "Boughtons" in Kent see Boughton Aluph; Boughton Malherbe; and Boughton MonchelseaBoughton under Blean is a village and civil parish between Faversham and Canterbury in southeast England... |
Black Mill | Standing c.1850 | ||||
Boughton under Blean | Demolished before c.1850 | |||||
Boughton under Blean | Miles' Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1793 | Demolished 1942 | ||
Boughton under Blean | Richardson's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished during World War Two | |
Boxley Boxley The large village and civil parish of Boxley in the Maidstone District of Kent, England lies below the slope of the North Downs, four miles NE of Maidstone town... |
The Pilgrim's Way Mill | |||||
Boxley | Boxley Mill | 1837 | Standing 1876, demolished by 1880 | |||
Brabourne Brabourne Brabourne is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The village centre is just under five miles east of Ashford town centre.The centre of the modern village of Brabourne is the Five Bells pub, which overlooks the village green... |
Brabourne Lees Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1867 | Burnt down 1871 | ||
Bredgar Bredgar Bredgar is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England. The village lies some 4 miles to the southwest of Sittingbourne on the road between Tunstall and Hollingbourne... |
Dean's Hill Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1909 | |
Bredhurst Bredhurst Bredhurst is a village in Kent, that forms part of the Borough of Maidstone. Its population is 330 . There has been a settlement on the site of the present day Bredhurst since neolithic times because of fertile fields and the good wood supply... |
Naylor's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1845 | Demolished c.1914 | ||
Brenchley Brenchley Brenchley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.-History:The name is historically derived from Branca's Leigh. The parish is located east of Tunbridge Wells, and south of Paddock Wood, and includes the neighbouring village of Matfield... |
Pixett Hill Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1860 | |
Brenchley | Keys Green Mill, Kippings Cross |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1843 | Demolished c.1957 – c.1963 Windmill World |
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Brenzett Brenzett Brenzett is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. The village lies on the Romney Marsh, three miles west of New Romney.... |
Brenzett Corner Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 |
1596 | 1610 | |
Brenzett | Brenzett Corner Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1776 | Demolished 5 February 1925 | ||
Bridge Bridge, Kent Bridge is a village and civil parish near Canterbury in Kent, South East England.Bridge village is situated in the Nailbourne valley in a rural setting on the old Roman road, Watling Street, formerly the main road between London and Dover... |
½ mile E of church | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1719 |
1596 | 1719 | |
Bridge | ½ mile E of church | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1829 | 1829 | 1829 | |
Bridge | Bridge Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1879 | Demolished 1955 | ||
Broadstairs Broadstairs Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about south-east of London. It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, which includes St. Peter's and had a population in 2001 of about 24,000. Situated between Margate and... |
St Peter's Mill | 1695 1736 |
1695 | 1736 | ||
Broadstairs | Clairmont Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 1719 1736 1769 |
1596 | Moved to Canterbury 1858. | |
Broadstairs | Bradstowe Mill Pierremont Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1827 | Demolished 1909 | ||
Brook Brook, Kent Brook is a village and civil parish in the Ashford borough of Kent, England, situated about five miles east of Ashford. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 307.... |
Spelder's Hill Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1820 | Demolished c.1912 |
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Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour.... |
St Martin's Mill St Martin's Mill, Canterbury St Martin's Mill is a Grade II listed, house converted tower mill in Canterbury, Kent, England.-History:St Martin's Mill was built in 1817 by John Adams. It was working until 1890 and was converted into a house by a Mr Couzens in 1920... |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1817 | Windmill World | ||
Canterbury | St Martin's Black Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished 1868 | ||
Canterbury | St Lawrence Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Burnt down 15 May 1873 | ||
Canterbury | Dane John Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1731 | 1839 | ||
Canterbury | Franciscan Gardens Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1846 | 1846 | ||
Canterbury | St Thomas Hill Mill | 1816 | 1856 | |||
Challock | Challock Lees Mill |
1769 | 1769 | Burnt down 1779 | ||
Challock | Challock Lees Mill | 1779 | Burnt down unknown date | |||
Challock Challock Challock is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford, Kent, England.The village centre is located between Faversham [8 miles to the north] and Ashford town . It dates from around AD823.... |
Challock Lees Mill 2nd mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Struck by lightning and burnt down, 10 February 1906 | |||
Charing Charing Charing is a small village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, in south-east England. The parish population is 2,750 ; it includes the settlement of Charing Heath.It is situated at the foot of the North Downs... |
Charing Mill, Field Mill Charing Windmill Charing Windmill is a Grade II listed house converted smock mill on Charing Hill in Kent in southeast England. It is sometimes known as Field Mill, but that name was also used by a watermill in Charing.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1821 | 1821 | Windmill World | |
Charing | Charing Heath Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished by 1870 | |||
Chartham Chartham Chartham is a village and civil parish in Kent, west of Canterbury.It is located on the Great Stour river which provided power for the paper mills up until some point before 1955. The name literally means ‘Village on rough ground’, and the word "Chart" is also found in other villages in Kent with... |
Hatch Green Mill | |||||
Chatham | Upberry Mill, Gilbert's Mill, Lower Chatham Hill Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
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1596 | Demolished 1897 | |
Chatham | Star Mill Upper Chatham Hill Mill Austin's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished 1925 | |||
Chatham | Cherry Tree Hall Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1860 | Blown down c.1875 | ||
Chatham | Chalk Pit Hill Mill | Burnt down 1836 | ||||
Chatham | Chalk Pit Hill Mill, Field's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1837 | Demolished 1887 | ||
Chatham | Chalk Pit Hill Mill (2nd mill) | |||||
Chatham | New Road Mill, Feather Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Pre 1851 | Demolished c.1890 | ||
Chatham | Ordnance Place Mill, Bacon's Mill, Belsey's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1845 | Demolished c.1900 | ||
Chatham | Ordnance Place Mill, Willis's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1839 | Demolished c.1875 | ||
Chatham | Luton Mill, Mainwaring's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1848 | Burnt down 1887 | ||
Chevening Chevening, Kent Chevening is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located to the north west of Sevenoaks on the southern slopes of the North Downs. The parish is a small one, being in length and wide. It has a population of 2,762. Apart from the village the... |
Chevening Mill | |||||
Chilham Chilham Chilham is a parish in the English county of Kent. Visited by tourists worldwide, it is known for its beauty. Chilham has been a location for a number of films and television dramas... |
Chilham Windmill | |||||
Chillenden Chillenden Chillenden is a village in East Kent, England, between Canterbury and Deal. It was home to the families of Thomas Chillenden and William Chillenden, as indicated by their surnames.... |
Chillenden Mill Chillenden Windmill Chillenden windmill is a grade II* listed open trestle post mill north of Chillenden, Kent, England. It is the last post mill built in Kent.-History:... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1695 1736 1769 |
1695 | Blown down 1868 | |
Chillenden | Chillenden Mill Chillenden Windmill Chillenden windmill is a grade II* listed open trestle post mill north of Chillenden, Kent, England. It is the last post mill built in Kent.-History:... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1868 | Collapsed 26 November 2003 Windmill World |
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Chillenden | Chillenden Mill Chillenden Windmill Chillenden windmill is a grade II* listed open trestle post mill north of Chillenden, Kent, England. It is the last post mill built in Kent.-History:... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
2005 | Windmill World | ||
Chislet Chislet Chislet is a sprawling rural parish in the northeast of the English county of Kent between the city of Canterbury and the Isle of Thanet. It is also the name of a village within the parish.... |
Chislet Mill Chislet Windmill Chislet windmill was a Grade II listed smock mill in Chislet, Kent, England. It was built in 1744 and burnt down on 15 October 2005.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1744 | Burnt down 15 October 2005 Windmill World |
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Cliffe Cliffe, Kent Cliffe is a village on the Hoo peninsula in Kent, England, reached from the Medway Towns by a three-mile journey along the B2000. Situated upon a low chalk escarpment overlooking the Thames marshes, Cliffe offers the adventurous rambler views of Southend-on-Sea and London... |
Dance's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Burnt down c.1885 | |
Cliftonville Cliftonville Cliftonville is a coastal area of the town of Margate, situated to the east of the main town, in the Thanet district of Kent, South East England, United Kingdom. It also contains the area known as Palm Bay.... |
Gougher's Mill (east) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1839 | Demolished November 1875 | ||
Cliftonville | Gougher's Mill (middle) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1839 | 1839, later burnt down | ||
Cliftonville | Gougher's Mill (west) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1839 | Demolished November 1875 | ||
Cobham Cobham, Kent Cobham is a village and civil parish in the Gravesham District of Kent, England. It is located south of Watling Street, the old road from Dover to London, six miles south-east of Gravesend. The hamlet of Sole Street lies within the parish, which covers an area of 1,240 ha and has a population of... |
Cobham Hall Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 |
1596 | 1610 | |
Cobham | Darnley's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1852 | Burnt down 1903 Windmill World |
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Cowden Cowden Cowden is a small village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the northern slopes of the Weald, south-west of Tonbridge. The old High Street has Grade II listed cottages and village houses, and there is an inn called The Fountain.-History:The... |
Polefields Mill | Demolished by 1843 | ||||
Cranbrook Cranbrook, Kent Cranbrook is a small town in Kent in South East England which was granted a charter in 1290 by Archbishop Peckham, allowing it to hold a market in the High Street. Located on the Maidstone to Hastings road, it is five miles north of Hawkhurst. The smaller settlements of Swattenden, Colliers... |
Windmill Hill Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | Moved to Sissinghurst (Crampton's Mill) c.1814, | |
Cranbrook | Satin's Hill Mill | 1769 | 1769 | 1769 | ||
Cranbrook | Cranbrook Common Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1872 | Demolished 9 August 1902 | ||
Cranbrook | Union Mill Union Mill, Cranbrook Union Mill is a Grade I listed smock mill in Cranbrook, Kent, England which has been restored to working order. It is the tallest smock mill in the United Kingdom.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1814 | Windmill World | ||
Cudham Cudham Cudham is a village in the London Borough of Bromley in London, UK. It is located south-southeast of Charing Cross and about northwest of Sevenoaks.... |
Biggin Hill Mill, Pimlico Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1829 | 1829 | Demolished 1885 |
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Dartford Dartford Dartford is the principal town in the borough of Dartford. It is situated in the northwest corner of Kent, England, east south-east of central London.... |
Brent Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished c.1901 | ||
Dartford | Hythe Street |
Demolished c1801 | ||||
Deal Deal, Kent Deal is a town in Kent England. It lies on the English Channel eight miles north-east of Dover and eight miles south of Ramsgate. It is a former fishing, mining and garrison town... |
Upper Deal Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1769 |
1596 | 1840 | |
Deal | Upper Deal Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1855 | Demolished March 1929 | ||
Deal | Wellington Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished c.1890 | |||
Deal | Lower Deal Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | Demolished c.1870 | |
Deal | North End Mill, Great Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1767 | Burnt down c.1896 | ||
Deal | Sandown Castle Mill | 1829 | 1829 | 1829 | ||
Deal | Sandown Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1695 | 1695 | 1695 | |
Deal | Sandown Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
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Deal | Walmer Road Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1844 | Demolished late 1850s | ||
Denton Denton, Dover Denton is a village near Canterbury in Kent, England.The Jackdaw Inn features in the 1969 film "The Battle of Britain".... |
Denton | 1736 1769 |
1736 | 1769 | ||
Detling Detling Detling is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. The parish is located on the slope of the North Downs, north east of Maidstone, and on the Pilgrims' Way.... |
Detling Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1864 | 1866, demolished by February 1868 | ||
Doddington Doddington, Kent Doddington is an affluent rural English village, in the south eastern county of Kent, within the borough of Swale. A picturesque village nestling in the 'Syndale Valley' which is in the Kent Downs and is designated an Area of outstanding natural beauty... |
Elvey's Mill, Jarvis's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1820 | Demolished 1937 | ||
Dover Dover Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings... |
Dover Castle, Mill Tower | |||||
Dover | Buckland Brewery | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1798 | 1890s | ||
Dover | Infectious Diseases Hospital | Titt iron wind engine John Wallis Titt John Wallis Titt was a late nineteenth-century mechanical engineer and builder of a particular design of large wind engine.-Early life:... |
1893 | |||
Dymchurch Dymchurch Dymchurch is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. The village is located on the coast five miles south-west of Hythe, and on the Romney Marsh. It is typical of this part of the coast, having been a village which became larger during the 1930s... |
Dymchurch Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1829 | 1829 | Demolished c.1905 |
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Eastchurch Eastchurch Eastchurch is a village on the Isle of Sheppey, in the English county of Kent, two miles east of Minster.The village website claims "... it has a history steeped in stories of piracy and smugglers".- Aviation history :... |
Eastchurch Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 |
1596 | 1610 | |
East Farleigh East Farleigh East Farleigh is a village and civil parish in the local government district of Maidstone, Kent, England. The village is located on the south side of the River Medway about two miles upstream of the town of Maidstone... |
East Farleigh Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Burnt down, c.1830s | |||
East Langdon East Langdon East Langdon is a village in the Dover district of Kent, England, five miles NE of Dover town.East Langdon was mentioned in the Domesday Book. The word Langdon goes back to Old English, meaning long hill... |
Martin Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1954 | |
Eastling Eastling Eastling is a small village 4½ miles to the southwest of Faversham, Kent in England. It is set in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the slope of the North Downs.... |
Eastling Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1823 | Demolished c.1912 | ||
Eastry Eastry Eastry is a civil parish and remote, yet historically significant village four kilometres SW of Sandwich, in Kent, that was voted "Kent Village of the Year 2005".-Etymology:... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1695 1736 |
1596 | 1839 | ||
Eastry | Lower Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1743 | Demolished 1926 | |
Eastry | Upper Mill Upper Mill, Eastry Upper Mill is a Grade II listed house converted smock mill in Eastry, Kent, England. It was built in the mid eighteenth century.-History:Upper Mill was built in the mid eighteenth century. A mill was marked on Symonson's map of 1596, Robert Morden's map of 1695 and Emanuel Bowen's map of 1736.... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Windmill World | |
Eastry | (3rd mill) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1833, burnt down unknown date | |||
Eastry | (4th mill) | |||||
Eastry | Eastry Mill | 1736 | 1736 | 1736 | ||
Edenbridge Edenbridge, Kent Edenbridge is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. The town's name derives from Old English language "Eadhelmsbrigge" . It is located on the Kent/Surrey border on the upper floodplain of the River Medway and gives its name to the latter's tributary, the River Eden... |
Edenbridge Mill Edenbridge Windmill Edenbridge Mill is a Grade II listed house converted tower mill in Edenbridge, Kent, England. It is on the west side of Mill Hill, just north of the hospital.-History:... |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1812 | Windmill World | ||
Egerton Egerton, Kent Egerton is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is located on the Greensand Ridge 9 miles north of Ashford. The parish is a scattered rural one; the settlement of Stonebridge Green, adjacent to Egerton, is also in the parish.The 13th century parish... |
(near church) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1818 | Moved to Stone Hill, 1818 | ||
Egerton | Stone Hill Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1818 | Blown down 2 December 1919 Windmill World |
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Elham Elham Elham is a village in East Kent situated approximately south of Canterbury and north east of Folkestone in the Elham Valley.-Toponomy:The origin of the village's name has always been a matter of argument. The village is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Alham. This may have derived from... |
Elham Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1769 | |
Elham | Bladblean Mill | 1769 | 1769 | 1769 | ||
Elham | Cullen's Hill Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1820 | Demolished 1925 | ||
Elmley Elmley Elmley is the local name for the Isle of Elmley, part of the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, England. It was also the name of a former village on the Isle of Elmley.-History:The village of Elmley was a settlement of around 200 people in the late 19th century... |
1695 | 1695 | 1695 | |||
Elmsted Elmsted Elmsted is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. It is located west of Stone Street , the Roman road which today takes traffic between Canterbury and Lympne. Within the parish are the settlements of Bodsham, North Leigh and Evington... |
Itinge Mill | 1736 1769 |
1736 | 1769 | ||
Elmsted | Itinge Mill, Folly Town Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
c.1865 | Collapsed c.1875 | ||
Elmsted | Stone Street Mill, The George Seed Mill (west) |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished c.1868 | |||
Elmsted | Stone Street Mill, The George Seed Mill (east) |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1876 | |
Elmsted | Bodsham Green Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished c.1895 Windmill World |
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Eythorne Eythorne Eythorne is a civil parish and small village of about 1000 homes, located 7.3 miles NNW of Dover in Kent. There are currently about 2500 residents. Eythorne holds many historical attributes. Situated a few miles away from Dover beach, it offers many articles of evidence of the war... |
Upper Eythorne Mill | 1769 | 1769 | 1769 |
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Farningham Farningham Farningham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent in England. It is located on the River Darent, south of Dartford, and has a population of 1,289... |
Farningham Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Moved to West Kingsdown 1880 | ||
Faversham Faversham Faversham is a market town and civil parish in the Swale borough of Kent, England. The parish of Faversham grew up around an ancient sea port on Faversham Creek and was the birthplace of the explosives industry in England.-History:... |
Forbes Road Mill, Gravel Pit Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished c.1910 | ||
Faversham | Hangman's Lane Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished c.1855 | ||
Faversham | Copton Mill Copton Pumping Windmill Copton Mill is a tower mill in Copton, Faversham, Kent, England that was built in 1863 to pump water for Faversham Water Company's waterworks. It is just south of junction 6 of the M2 motorway.-History:... |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1863 | |||
Fawkham Fawkham Fawkham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located to the north-east of Sevenoaks town. The main village in the parish is Fawkham Green. The railway station now called Longfield was originally called Fawkham.The 12th century parish church is... |
Fawkham Mill | 1719 | 1719 | 1719 | ||
Folkestone Folkestone Folkestone is the principal town in the Shepway District of Kent, England. Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to the Continent as a landing place and trading port. The coming of the railways, the building of a ferry port, and its... |
Cheriton Mill, Ashley Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1877 | Demolished 1919 Windmill World |
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Folkestone | Cheriton Mill | 1843 | 1869, later burnt down | |||
Folkestone | Cheriton Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Moved to Lympne | |||
Folkestone | Folkestone Mill Foord Road Mill |
1769 | 1769 | 1833 | ||
Folkestone | (on coast) | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1769 | |
Folkestone | Dawson's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Moved to Bethersden (Black Mill) in 1885 | ||
Frindsbury Frindsbury Frindsbury is part of the Medway Towns conurbation in Kent, southern England. It lies on the opposite side of the River Medway to Rochester, and at various times in its history has been considered fully or partially part of the City of Rochester. Frindsbury refers to both a parish and a manor.... |
Quarry Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 1736 1769 |
1596 | Burnt down c.1850 | |
Frindsbury | Prospect Hill Mill, Little Mill, Manwaring's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1886 | |
Frindsbury | Prospect Hill Mill, Great Mill, Rose's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished c.1890 Windmill World |
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Frindsbury | Kimmins' Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished c.1865 | ||
Frindsbury | Frindsbury Mill, House Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished 1931 | ||
Frinsted Frinsted Frinsted or Frinstead is a small village in the parish of Wormshill and in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. and has been a recorded settlement as far back as the Domesday Book and indeed was the only settlement in the surrounding area to be described at the time to have a church... |
Frinsted Mill | 1736 | 1736 | 1736 | ||
Frittenden Frittenden Frittenden is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the flood plain of one of the tributaries of the River Medway, 15 miles to the east of Tunbridge Wells: the village is three miles south of Headcorn. It is in a very rural... |
Maplehurst Windmill | Demolished by 1836 | ||||
Frittenden | Sinkhurst Green Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1829 | 1829 | Demolished early 1950s Windmill World |
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Gillingham Gillingham, Kent Gillingham is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in South East England. It is part of the ceremonial county of Kent. The town includes the settlements of Brompton, Hempstead, Rainham, Rainham Mark and Twydall.... |
Stedman's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished c.1888 | |||
Gillingham | Stedman's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1839 | Burnt down 28 June 1892 | ||
Gillingham | Charter Street mill Huggins' Mill |
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Gillingham | Mulberry Tree Place Mill |
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Gillingham | Friday's Mill |
Smock | 1839 | Demolished c.1896 | ||
Goodnestone Goodnestone, Dover Goodnestone is a village in the district of Dover, Kent, England.-Goodnestone Park near Sandwich:Goodnestone Park is a stately home near the Canterbury–Sandwich village. It was built in 1704 by Brook Bridges, 1st Baronet.... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 | 1736 | 1736 | ||
Goudhurst Goudhurst Goudhurst is a village in Kent on the Weald, about south of Maidstone.It stands on a crossroads , where there is a large village pond. It is also in the Cranbrook School catchment area.... |
Kilndown Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1770 | Moved to Nutley, Sussex c.1817 | ||
Goudhurst | Town Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1803 | Demolished c.1890 | ||
Gravesend Gravesend, Kent Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex. It is the administrative town of the Borough of Gravesham and, because of its geographical position, has always had an important role to play in the history and communications of this part of... |
Windmill Hill Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 | 1596 | Burnt down 1763 | |
Gravesend | Windmill Hill Mill (south) | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | Caught fire and remains demolished 1787 | |
Gravesend | Windmill Hill Mill (south) | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
c.1787 | Burnt down 17 May 1900 | ||
Gravesend | Windmill Hill Mill (north) | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1769 | |
Gravesend | Denton Mill Sulphur Mill |
1812 | c.1872 | |||
Great Chart Great Chart Great Chart is a village in civil parish of Great Chart with Singleton in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The parish is split between the ancient village of Great Chart and the modern Singleton housing development, which is part of the western outskirts of Ashford... |
Saw mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1888 | Demolished 1928 | ||
Great Mongeham Great Mongeham Great Mongeham is a village and civil parish in East Kent, on the outskirts of Deal. Its name is derived from Mundelingham or village of Mundel. Parts of Great Mongeham's church, St Martin's, date back to the 13th century... |
Mongeham Mill | 1596 1695 1736 |
1596 | 1736 | ||
Guilton | Guilton Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished October 1923 Windmill World |
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Guilton | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | Standing in 1854 | ||
Guilton | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Standing in 1854 | ||||
Guilton | Good Intent Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1854 | Demolished c.1918 | ||
Guston Guston Guston is a village near Dover in Kent, England. The village lies about a quarter of a mile North of the campus of the Duke of York's Royal Military School, near Martin Mill. The village, in the 1950s, was the site of one public house, one post office, one Saxon church and about one-hundred homes.... |
Swingate Mill Swingate Mill, Guston Swingate Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill in Guston, Kent, England that was built in 1849.-History:Swingate Mill was built for John Mummery in 1849, incorporating the cap, sails, windshaft and brake wheel from a windmill that had been intended to be erected on the Rope Walk, Dover, but which... |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1849 | Windmill World |
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Halstead Halstead, Kent Halstead is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the North Downs, 3 miles south of Orpington and 5 miles north of Sevenoaks.... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1829 | Demolished 1829 | |||
Harbledown Harbledown Harbledown is a village to the west of Canterbury, Kent in England, now contiguous with the city, although still a separate village. It forms part of the civil parish of Harbledown and Rough Common. The High Street is a conservation area with many fascinating colloquial buildings either side of a... |
The Old Black Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1780 | Demolished 9 July 1913 | ||
Hartley Hartley, Kent This article is about the village in North Kent, England. For the South Kent village of the same name see Hartley, Cranbrook. For other uses, see Hartley .... |
1719 | 1719 | 1719 | |||
Hartlip Hartlip Hartlip is a village and civil parish in the borough of Swale, in the county of Kent, England. The population estimate was 680 in 1991, and in 2001 there were 566 registered voters... |
Friday's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1596 1736 1769 |
1596 | burnt down June 1887 | |
Hastingleigh Hastingleigh The small civil parish of Hastingleigh lies on top of the North Downs in Kent three miles east of Wye and ten miles south of Canterbury, near the locally renowned beauty spot of the Devil's Kneading Trough, on the North Downs Way with views towards Ashford, Romney Marsh and the Weald.Hastingleigh... |
Staple Lees Mill Brown Town Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 | 1736 | 1736 | |
Hawkhurst Hawkhurst Hawkhurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. The parish lies to the south-east of Tunbridge Wells. Hawkhurst itself is virtually two villages... |
Old Conghurst | 1719 | 1719 | 1719 | ||
Hawkhurst | Hawkhurst Horn | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | 1769, Moved to High Street | |
Hawkhurst | Pipsden | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 | 1736 | Standing 1874 | |
Hawkhurst | High Street | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Hawkhurst | Gun Green Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Hawkhurst | Gun Green Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Moved to Four Throws c.1870 | |||
Hawkhurst | Four Throws Mill Nightingale's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1870 | Demolished 1926 | ||
Hawkinge Hawkinge Hawkinge is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile due east of the present village centre ; the modern, much larger, village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill... |
The Old Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1799 | Collapsed 1962 | ||
Hawkinge | Drellingore Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Moved to Ringwould (Ripple Mill c.1810) | |||
Headcorn Headcorn Headcorn is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the floodplain of the River Beult south east of Maidstone.... |
Black Mill Crows's Foot Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1910 | |
Headcorn | White Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1819 | Demolished 1952 | ||
Herne Herne, Kent Herne is a village in South East England, divided by the Thanet Way from the seaside resort of Herne Bay. Administratively it is in the civil parish of Herne and Broomfield in Kent. Between Herne and Broomfield is the former hamlet of Hunters Forstal; Herne Common lies to the south.The hamlet of... |
Beacon Hill Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 1695 1736 1769 |
1589 | 1769 | |
Herne | Herne Windmill Herne Windmill Herne Windmill is a Grade I listed smock mill in Herne, Kent, England that was built in 1781.-History:Herne Windmill was built by John Holman in 1789, when he was working for Sweetlove, the Wingham millwright. There are records of a windmill in Herne as early as 1405... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1781 | Windmill World | ||
Herne Bay Herne Bay, Kent Herne Bay is a seaside town in Kent, South East England, with a population of 35,188. On the south coast of the Thames Estuary, it is north of Canterbury and east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district... |
The Bay Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1839 | Demolished 1878 Windmill World |
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Higham Higham, Kent Higham is a small village bordering the Hoo Peninsula, in Kent, between Gravesend and Rochester. The civil parish of Higham is in Gravesham district and as at the 2001 UK Census, had a population of 3,938.-History:... |
Rose's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1760 | Demolished April 1921, base remains standing Windmill World |
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High Halden High Halden High Halden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is located on the A28 road between Ashford town and Tenterden, 3miles north of the latter.-History:... |
High Halden Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | Standing in 1918, demolished by 1933 | |
Hildenborough Hildenborough Hildenborough is a village and rural parish in the District of Tonbridge and Malling, Kent. It is two miles north-west of Tonbridge and five miles south-east of Sevenoaks... |
Watt's Cross mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1812 | Demolished 1961 Windmill World |
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Hoath Hoath Hoath is a village and civil parish situated within the City of Canterbury local government district. The hamlets of Knaves Ash, Maypole, Ford, Old Tree, Shelvingford and Stoney Acre are included in the parish.-Geography:... |
Fuller's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Collapsed 18 July 1919 | ||
Hoo Hoo St Werburgh Hoo St Werburgh is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England, to bear the name Hoo. It constitutes a civil parish in the borough of Medway, with a population of 7,356 at the 2001 census.- History :... |
Hoo Common Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1769 | |
Hoo | Hoo Common Mill Ballard's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1799 | Standing in 1905, demolished by 1933 | ||
Hythe Hythe, Kent Hythe , is a small coastal market town on the edge of Romney Marsh, in the District of Shepway on the south coast of Kent. The word Hythe or Hithe is an Old English word meaning Haven or Landing Place.... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1809 | Moved to Ruckinge 1830s | |||
Hythe | Stade Street | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1829 | 1829 | Standing in 1889 | |
Hythe | Stade Street | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1829 | 1829 | Moved to Cheriton (Ashley Mill) 1877 | |
Hythe | Stade Street | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1829 | 1829 | 1829, demolished by 1877 | |
Hythe | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1860s | Demolished 1860s |
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Ide Hill Ide Hill Ide Hill is a village within the civil parish of Sundridge with Ide Hill, in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It stands on one of the highest points of the sandstone ridge about five miles south-west of Sevenoaks. Its name first appears on record in 1250 as Edythehelle. It is an eponymic... |
1843 | Burnt down 1875 | ||||
Ide Hill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1858 | Demolished 1882 | |||
Isle of Grain Isle of Grain The Isle of Grain, in the north of Kent, England, is the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula. No longer an island, the Isle is almost all marshland and the Grain Marshes are an important habitat for birdlife... |
Grain | 1596 1610 |
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Isle of Grain | All Hallows | 1769 | 1769 | 1769 | ||
Isle of Grain | St Peter's | 1769 | 1769 | 1819 | ||
Iwade Iwade Iwade is a small village on the north side of Detling Hill, close to the town of Sittingbourne in Kent, England. With quick access to the M2 & M20 motorways, as well as within a short driving distance to Maidstone, and further Canterbury & Faversham.... |
Iwade Windpump | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Kennington Kennington, Kent Kennington is a suburb of Ashford in Kent, England. It is about a mile northeast of the town centre and north of the M20 motorway, and contains the 12th century church, St Mary's. The main A28 Canterbury Road and A251 Faversham Road run through the village... |
Kennington Lees Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c1878 | |
Kennington | Wind, Steam and Water Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1813 | Demolished 1952 Windmill World |
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Kingsdown Kingsdown (hamlet) Kingsdown is a small hamlet surrounded by the villages of Frinsted, Milstead, Doddington and Lynsted in Kent, England.The hamlet is within the civil parish of Milstead and Kingsdown which spans the boundaries of the boroughs of Maidstone and Swale... |
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Kingsnorth Kingsnorth Kingsnorth is a village and civil parish near Ashford in Kent, England.-Features:The Greensand Way, a long distance footpath stretching from Haslemere in Surrey to Hamstreet in Kent, passes through the parish on the final stretch.... |
Millbank Place Mill | Demolished by 1872 | ||||
Kingsnorth | Kingsnorth Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1878 | 1903, demolished by 1933 Windmill World |
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Kingston Kingston, Kent Kingston is a village and civil parish near Canterbury in Kent, South East England.The village is located 5 miles to the south east of the city centre of Canterbury on the edge of the North Downs in countryside designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.The local church, dedicated to Saint... |
Reed Mill Reed Mill, Kingston Reed Mill is a tower mill in Kingston, Kent, England. It is no longer in operation but as of 2011 is under restoration.-History:Reed mill was built in the early nineteenth century. It was marked on the 1858-72 Ordnance Survey map. The mill was working until 28 March 1915 when it was tailwinded and... |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1872 | Windmill World | ||
Knockholt Knockholt Knockholt is a village and civil parish in Kent, England, lying approximately 5 miles south of Orpington and 3 miles northwest of Sevenoaks. It is part of the Sevenoaks district and according to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,166... |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1845 | Demolished c.1886 |
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Lamberhurst Lamberhurst Lamberhurst is a village and civil parish in Kent although the latter parish was at first in both Kent and East Sussex. The line of the county border was adjusted following the Local Government Act 1894, which required that parish boundaries be aligned with counties... |
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Lamberhurst | Saw mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
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Leeds Leeds, Kent Leeds is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. The parish is located to the east of Maidstone.The village of Leeds is five miles from the county town. It appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086 called Esledes - an old English word meaning slope or hillside... |
Brogden Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished(Finch) 1883 | ||
Leigh Leigh, Kent Leigh , historically spelled Lyghe, is a village and a civil parish located in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. It is located six miles south of Sevenoaks town and three miles west of Tonbridge.... |
Stocks Green Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1928 | Collapsed c1963 Windmill World |
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Lenham Lenham Lenham is a market village in Kent situated on the southern edge of the North Downs, halfway between Maidstone and Ashford. The picturesque square in the village has two public houses , a couple of restaurants, and a tea-room.... |
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Lenham | Town mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | 1897 | ||
Lenham | Town Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1843 | Burnt down 1904 | ||
Lenham | Downs Court Hill Mill | 1843 | Burnt down before 1881 | |||
Lenham | Lenham Heath Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1760 | Demolished 1925 Windmill World |
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Lower Stoke | ||||||
Lower Stoke | (2nd mill) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Standing in 1905, gone by 1933 | |||
Luddesdown Luddesdown Luddesdown is a civil parish in the Gravesham District of Kent, England. This very rural parish, forming part of the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is located in a dry valley to the south of Gravesend and is named after a scattered group of houses and farms around Luddesdown... |
Henley Downs Mill | 1829 | 1829 | Blown down 1856 | ||
Lydd Lydd Lydd is a town in Kent, England, lying on the Romney Marsh. It is one of the larger towns on the Marsh, and the most southerly town in Kent. Actually located on Denge Marsh, Lydd was one of the first sandy islands to form as the bay evolved into what is now called the Romney Marsh... |
1596 1610 1769 |
1596 | 1766 | |||
Lydd | Old Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 1769 |
1596 | Burnt down 26 February 1900 | |
Lydd | New Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1805 | Burnt down 22 September 1927 | ||
Lyminge Lyminge Lyminge is a village in southeast Kent, England. It lies about five miles from Folkestone and the Channel Tunnel, on the road passing through the Elham Valley. The Nailbourne stream begins in the village and flows north through the Valley, to become one of the tributary streams of the Great Stour... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | 1819, blown down unknown date | ||
Lyminge | Black Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Burnt down September 1891 | ||
Lyminge | White Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1852 | Demolished 1920 | ||
Lympne Lympne Lympne is a village situated on the former sea cliffs above the Romney Marsh in Kent. It lies approximately west of Folkestone, 2 miles west of Hythe and east of Ashford.... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1829 | 1829 | Blown down November 1891 | ||
Lynsted Lynsted Lynsted is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England. The village is situated south of the A2 road, between Faversham and Sittingbourne. Lynsted is a typical old-English village with church , local pub and a duck pond.-External links:*... |
Claxfield, Seed Mill | Gone by 1850s | ||||
Lynsted | Union Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1736 | 1736 | Standing in 1870, demolished "a few years later" | |
Lynsted | Champion's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Standing in 1933. Gone by 1940 Windmill World |
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Maidstone Maidstone Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town linking Maidstone to Rochester and the Thames Estuary. Historically, the river was a source and route for much of the town's trade. Maidstone was the centre of the agricultural... |
Sandling Road | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1819 | 1819 | Gone by 1834 | |
Margate Margate -Demography:As of the 2001 UK census, Margate had a population of 40,386.The ethnicity of the town was 97.1% white, 1.0% mixed race, 0.5% black, 0.8% Asian, 0.6% Chinese or other ethnicity.... |
Humber's Mill Chamber's Mill |
1695 1719 1736 |
1695 | 1736 | ||
Margate | 1695 1719 |
1695 | 1719, gone by 1847 | |||
Margate | Drapers Mill Draper's Mill, Margate Draper's Mill or Old Mill is a Grade II listed Smock mill in Margate, Kent, England that was built circa 1847.-History:Draper's mill was built in 1845 by John Holman, the Canterbury millwright, replacing an earlier mill that had previously been moved here from Nayland Point... Old Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1847 | Windmill World | ||
Margate | Little Draper's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Built c.1869 | Standing in 1903, gone by 1933 | ||
Margate | Pumping Mill | Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1872 | Standing in 1894 | ||
Margate | Town Mill | 1719 | 1719 | Working in 1889 | ||
Margate | Hooper's Mill | Vertical axis mill | 1791 | Demolished c1828 | ||
Meopham Meopham Meopham is a large linear village and civil parish in the Borough of Gravesham and ceremonial county of Kent, in England, and lies to the south of Gravesend. The parish covers , and comprises two villages and two smaller settlements; it has a population of 6,427... |
Meopham Mill Killick's Mill, Meopham Killick's Mill is a Grade II* listed Smock mill in Meopham, Kent, England that was built in 1801 and which has been restored.-History:Killick's mill was built in 1801 by three brothers named Killick from Strood. Unusually, the mill is hexagonal in plan. Most smock mills are octagonal in plan... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1801 | Windmill World | ||
Meopham | Priestwood Mill | 1769 | 1769 | Demolished 1850s | ||
Milton Milton Regis Milton Regis is a village in the district of Swale in Kent, England. It has a population of about 5,100. Today it is a suburb of Sittingbourne although this has not always been the case. Milton Regis has a much older and richer history... |
Chalkwell Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Standing in 1878 | ||
Milton Regis | Meade Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1878 | Burnt down 15 August 1954 | ||
Minster, Sheppey Minster-in-Sheppey Minster is a small town on the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey and in the Swale district of Kent, England.-Toponymy:The name of the town derives from the monastery founded in the area... |
Pigtail Corner Mill | 1596 1610 |
1596 | 1610 | ||
Minster, Sheppey | Pigtail Corner Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1695 1769 |
1695 | Burnt down 1889 | |
Minster, Thanet Minster-in-Thanet Minster-in-Thanet, also known as Minster, is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England. The village is situated to the west of Ramsgate and to the north east of Canterbury; it lies just south west of Kent International Airport and just north of the River Stour... |
Minster Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 1695 1719 |
1596 | 1719 | |
Minster, Thanet | Minster Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Standing in 1882 | |||
Minster, Thanet | Minster Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Standing in 1875, gone by 1882 | |
Molash Molash Molash is a civil parish and village in Kent, South East England with a population of about 230 people. It is situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty nestling on the picturesque North Downs; on the A252 road between Canterbury , Ashford and Faversham .Molash is a scattered rural... |
Molash Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Standing in 1877 | ||
Monkton Monkton, Kent Monkton is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England. The village is located at the south-western edge of the Isle of Thanet and is situated mainly along the B2047 road, leading off the A263 road between Canterbury and Ramsgate. The civil parish stretches south to the... |
1198 | 1205 | ||||
Monkton | Monkton Mill | 1596 1610 1695 1719 1736 1769 |
1596 | 1769 | ||
Murston Murston Murston is a suburb of Sittingbourne in Kent, England.... |
Murston Mill |
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Newchurch Newchurch, Kent Newchurch is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District in Kent, England. The village is located on the Romney Marsh, west of Dymchurch... |
Newchurch Mill |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1810 | Demolished c.1906 Windmill World |
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Newington Newington, Thanet Newington is an area in the town of Ramsgate in Kent, England.- Demography :As of the 2001 UK census, the Newington electoral ward had a population of 5,009. The ethnicity was 98.8% white, 0.8% mixed race, 0.1% Asian, 0.2% black and 0.1% other... |
Newington Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Standing in 1933 | ||
Newington Newington, Swale Newington is a village in Kent, England on the A2 road between Chatham to the west and Sittingbourne to the east. The local district council is Swale. Newington acquired its name in Saxon times meaning 'New Town' built on an old one, probably Roman and possibly the site of the Roman station... |
Newington Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Stading in 1884, gone by 1933 | ||
Newnham Newnham, Kent Newnham is a village in the Syndale valley in Kent, England, in the administrative borough of Swale near the medieval market town of Faversham.- History :Newnham has existed as a community of dwellings and work-units for at least 1,000 years... |
Newnham Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Dismantled 1876, tower burnt 5 November 1876 | ||
New Romney New Romney New Romney is a small town in Kent, England, on the edge of Romney Marsh, an area of flat, rich agricultural land reclaimed from the sea after the harbour began to be silted up. New Romney was once a sea port, with the harbour adjacent to the church, but is now more than a mile from the sea... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 | 1500 | 1596 | ||
New Romney | New Romney Mill Old Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | 1903, gone by 1933 | |
New Romney | 1769 | 1769 | 1769 | |||
Nonington Nonington Nonington, also, variously, Nonnington, Nunyngton, Nonnyngton, Nunnington, is a small village in the southeast corner of Kent, situated halfway between the historic city of Canterbury and the channel port town of Dover... |
Nonington Mill | 1596 1695 1736 |
1596 | 1736 | ||
Nonington | Nonington mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Burnt down 9 May 1965 Windmill World |
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Nonington | Seed Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Demolished 1905 | |||
Northbourne Northbourne Northbourne is a village near Deal in Kent, England. It has a public house, The Hare and Hounds, a primary school and is the home of the current Baron Northbourne. It should not be confused with an area in Bournemouth of the same name.... |
1596 1736 |
1596 | 1736 | |||
Northbourne | Old Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished 15 February 1957 | |
Northbourne | New Mill New Mill, Northbourne New Mill is a Grade II listed smock mill in Northbourne, Kent, England that was built in 1848 and which has been converted to residential accommodation.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1848 | Windmill World | ||
Northfleet Northfleet Northfleet is a town in the Borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. Its name is derived from North creek , and the settlement on the shore of the River Thames adjacent to Gravesend was known as Norfluet in the Domesday Book, and Northflet in 1201... |
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Northfleet | Stone Bridge | |||||
Northfleet | Stone Bridge (2nd mill) | 1843 | Standing in 1850s | |||
Northfleet | Fiveash Mill | 1843 | Demolished c.1902 | |||
Northfleet | Rosherville | Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1832 | Demolished c.1916 | ||
Northwood | Thanet Mill | Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1843 | Demolished 1961 Windmill World |
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Oare Oare, Kent Oare is a village and civil parish north of Faversham in southeast England. It is separated from Faversham by the Oare Creek. To the north of the village are the Oare Marshes, and the Harty Ferry which linked to Harty on the Isle of Sheppey. Kent Wildlife Trust manages a nature reserve that is an... |
Oare Windmill Oare Windmill Oare Mill is a Grade II* listed house converted Tower mill in Oare, Kent, England that was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.-History:... |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1821 | 1821 | Windmill World | |
Old Romney Old Romney Old Romney is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England.The village, as its name suggests, is the original site of the settlement, and is situated two miles inland from New Romney... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 1736 |
1596 | 1736 | ||
Old Romney | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1736 |
1596 | 1736 | ||
Ospringe Ospringe Ospringe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Kent. It has a population of 715. Located south of Faversham, Ospringe forms part of the Borough of Swale... |
Water Lane Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1878 | Demolished c.1915 Windmill World |
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Ospringe | Union House (2nd mill) | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Burnt down c.1910 |
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Pegwell Bay Pegwell Bay Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet in the English Channel coast at the estuary of the River Stour between Ramsgate and Sandwich in Kent. Situated in the bay is a large nature reserve, known for its migrating waders and wildfowl, with a complete series of seashore habitats including extensive mudflats... |
1828 | Demolished c.1830 | ||||
Penenden Heath Penenden Heath Penenden Heath is a suburb in the town of Maidstone in Kent, England.As the name suggests it is nucleated around a former heath .-History:... |
Penenden Heath Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1800 | Moved to Folkestone (Dawson's) c.1840 | ||
Petham Petham Petham is a small village and civil parish in the North Downs, five miles south of Canterbury in Kent, South East England.The village church is All Saints Church, which was built in the 13th century but suffered from a fire in 1922 and had to be reconstructed... |
Mill Downs Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1829 | 1829 | Moved to Stelling Minnis (Brambleton Mill) c.1850 | |
Petham | Mark's Folly Mill Duckpit Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1865 | Moved to Elmsted (Itinge Mill) c.1865 | ||
Petham | Chequers' Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1821 | Demolished 1900 | ||
Pluckley Pluckley Pluckley is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, United Kingdom. It is located close to the North Downs, and is approximately 5 miles west of Ashford... |
Pluckley Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1872 | Burnt down 1939 | ||
Pluckley | Padgham's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
Moved to Great Chart | |||
Postling Postling Postling village and civil parish is situated near the Roman road of Stone Street, about south of Canterbury, Kent, in South East England. Postlinges is the spelling used in the Domesday Book where it was part of the lands of Hugo de Montsort; Postlinge is also seen in old records. There is much... |
Postling Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1719 |
1596 | 1719 | |
Preston next Faversham | Preston Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished 1943 | ||
Preston next Wingham | Old Mill Dunn's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1778 | Demolished 1959 Windmill World |
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Preston next Wingham | New Mill Solly's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1852 | Demolished 1926 |
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Queenborough Queenborough Queenborough is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England.Queenborough is two miles south of Sheerness. It grew as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entrance to The Swale where it joins the River Medway... |
Queenborough Mill | 1843 | Burnt down by 1860 | |||
Ramsgate Ramsgate Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century and is a member of the ancient confederation of Cinque Ports. It has a population of around 40,000. Ramsgate's main attraction is its coastline and its main... |
St. Lawrence | 1596 1719 1769 |
1596 | 1769 | ||
Ramsgate | Grange Road Mill | 1719 | 1719 | 1719 | ||
Ramsgate | Grange Road Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Standing 1905, gone by 1930 | ||
Ramsgate | Hereson Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1872 | Burnt down c.1890 | ||
Richborough Richborough Richborough is a settlement north of Sandwich on the east coast of the county of Kent, England. Richborough lies close to the Isle of Thanet.... |
1769 | 1769 | 1787 | |||
Richborough | 1769 | 1769 | 1787 | |||
Ringwould Ringwould Ringwould is a village near Dover in Kent, England. Ripple Windmill, which is being restored, lies within the parish.... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1695 | 1695 | 1695 | ||
Ringwould | Ripple Mill Ripple Mill, Ringwould Ripple Windmill is a Grade II listed Smock mill in Ringwould, Kent, England that was built in Drellingore and moved to Ringwould in the early nineteenth century... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1810 | Windmill World | ||
Rochester | Star Hill Mill The Old Mill |
1787 | Demolished c.1865 | |||
Rochester | Star Hill Mill Friday's Mill |
1843 | Burnt down 1852 | |||
Rochester | Star Hill Mill Boy's Mill Belsey's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1877 | Demolished c.1890–95 | ||
Rochester | Delce Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1853 | Demolished after World War Two | ||
Rochester | Borstal Hill Mill |
1870 | Demolished 1885 | |||
Rochester | Church Mill Horsnaill's Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1880 | |
Rochester | Zenith Mill Huggin's Mill Approximately |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | Burnt down c.1820s | |
Rochester | St Margaret's Mill Approximately |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1798 | |
Rodmersham Green Rodmersham Green Rodmersham Green is a village in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England.... |
Rodmersham Green Mill | Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1835 | Demolished 1969 | ||
Rolvenden Rolvenden Rolvenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is located on the A28 Ashford to Hastings road, south-west of Tenterden.The settlement of Rolvenden Layne, south of Rolvenden, is also in the parish.-History:... |
Rolvenden Mill Rolvenden Windmill Rolvenden Windill is a grade II* listed Post mill on the B2086 road west of Rolvenden in southeast England. It is maintained as a memorial to a local resident killed in a road accident in 1955.-History:... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 1769 |
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Ruckinge Ruckinge The village of Ruckinge is located in Kent. It lies seven miles southeast of Ashford on the B2067 Hamstreet to Hythe road. It is the centre of a civil parish of the same name, which also includes the scattered community of Bromley Green... |
Ruckinge Mill Approximately |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1830s | Demolished c.1912 |
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Sandgate Sandgate, Kent Sandgate is a village in the Folkestone and Hythe Urban Area in the Shepway district of Kent, England. In 2004, the village re-acquired civil parish status.... |
Saw mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
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Sandhurst Sandhurst, Kent The village of Sandhurst is in Kent near the border with East Sussex. It is situated very close to Bodiam. It is located on the A268 near the villages of Hawkhurst and Northiam... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1769, Moved to Sandhurst (Boxhurst Farm) by 1793 | ||
Sandhurst | Boxhurst Farm Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1793 | Blown down c.1842 | ||
Sandhurst | Ringle Crouch Green Mill Ringle Crouch Green Mill, Sandhurst Ringle Crouch Green Mill is a smock mill in Sandhurst, Kent, England that was demolished to base level in 1945, and now has a new smock tower built on it as residential accommodation and an electricity generator.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1844 | Demolished 1945 Windmill World |
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Sandwich Sandwich, Kent Sandwich is a historic town and civil parish on the River Stour in the Non-metropolitan district of Dover, within the ceremonial county of Kent, south-east England. It has a population of 6,800.... |
St Mary's Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Sandwich | Canterbury Gate Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | Working in 1842 | |
Sandwich | Black Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1870s | Burnt down c.1910 | ||
Sandwich | White Mill White Mill, Sandwich White Mill is a smock mill west of Sandwich, Kent, England that was built in 1760. The mill has been restored and is open to the public as part of the White Mill Rural Heritage Centre. The museum also includes the miller's cottage, which has been furnished to appear as during 1900 and 1939... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1760 | Windmill World | ||
Sandwich | Millwall Mill Town Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1878 | Standing in 1878, burnt down unknown date | ||
Sandwich | Millwall | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
Gone by c.1850 | |||
Sandwich | Millwall (3rd mill) | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Sandwich | Sandown Gate Mills | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... x3 |
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Sandwich | St Bart's Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Sarre Sarre, Kent Sarre is a village and civil parish in Thanet District in Kent, England. The village is a part of St. Nicholas-at-Wade ecclesiastical parish, after having lost the local church of St. Giles in Elizabethan times; the ecclesiastical parishes were subsequently combined. In its own right Sarre is an... |
Sarre Windmill Sarre Windmill Sarre Windmill is a Grade II listed smock mill in Sarre, Kent, England that was built in 1820, and is now a commercially working windmill that has been restored and is open to the public.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1820 | Windmill World | ||
Selling Selling, Kent Selling is a village and civil parish south of Faversham in southeast England. The population is roughly 500.-Primary school:In Selling is a small primary school, Selling C of E Primary School for years 1-6 .-Railway stations:... |
Shottenden Mill Perry Wood Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1736 1769 |
1596 | Demolished c.1920 | |
Sellindge Sellindge Sellindge is a civil parish and village on the A20 road between Ashford and Folkestone in Kent, South East England. Sellindge is part of North Downs West Ward of Shepway District Council but part of the Elham ward of Kent County Council.... |
Stone Hill Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished c.1898 | ||
Sevenoaks Sevenoaks Sevenoaks is a commuter town situated on the London fringe of west Kent, England, some 20 miles south-east of Charing Cross, on one of the principal commuter rail lines from the capital... |
Near "The Vine" | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Sevenoaks | Tubs Hill Mill | 1792 | Standing in 1864 | |||
Sevenoaks | Hubbard Hill Mill | 1669 | 1669 | |||
Sevenoaks | Hubbard Hill Mill | 1843 | 1858 | |||
Sevenoaks | Melregge (Witley Woods) |
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Sevenoaks | Bradbourne Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1912 | Blown down 1912 | ||
Sevenoaks | Bayleys Hill Mill | Moved to Sevenoaks Weald | ||||
Sevenoaks Weald Sevenoaks Weald Sevenoaks Weald is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the Weald, immediately south of Sevenoaks town, with the village of Sevenoaks Weald at its centre. It was formed in 1894 from part of the ancient parish of Sevenoaks.The village was... |
1862 | 1880 | Working in 1880 | |||
Sheerness Sheerness Sheerness is a town located beside the mouth of the River Medway on the northwest corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 12,000 it is the largest town on the island.... |
Great Mill Ride's Mill Great Mill, Sheerness Great Mill or Ride's Mill is a Grade II listed smock mill just off the High Street in Sheerness, Kent, England that was demolished in 1924, and now has a new smock tower built on it as residential accommodation.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1829 | 1816 | Demolished 1924 Windmill World |
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Sheerness | Little Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Burnt down 7 February 1862 | ||
Sheerness | Hundred Acre Mill Marine Town Mill Sea View Mill |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1860 | Demolished 1878 Windmill World |
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Sheldwich Sheldwich Sheldwich is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England.-Geography:It is situated 3 miles south of the market town of Faversham, and 10 miles north of Ashford... |
1769 | 1769 | 1769 | |||
Shepherdswell, or Sibertswold Shepherdswell Shepherdswell is a village in Kent, England, UK. It is notable for the East Kent Railway, whose terminus is sited there.This was originally one of Colonel Stephens' lines & ran to Wingham.The section as far as Eythorne is now run by a preservation society.The village social life centres around the... |
Shepherdswell Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1857 | Standing in 1910, gone by 1933 | ||
Shorne Shorne Shorne is a village and civil parish in the Gravesham District of Kent, England. The parish is located to the south-east of Gravesend; the village is three miles from the town.... |
Shorne Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1596 1610 |
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Shorne | Shorne Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 1769 |
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Sissinghurst Sissinghurst Sissinghurst is a small village in the county of Kent in England. Originally called Milkhouse Street , Sissinghurst changed its name in the 1850s, possibly to avoid association with the smuggling and cockfighting activities of the Hawkhurst Gang.The nearest railway station is at... |
Crampton's Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished 27 November 1951 Windmill World |
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Sittingbourne Sittingbourne Sittingbourne is an industrial town about eight miles east of Gillingham in England, beside the Roman Watling Street off a creek in the Swale, a channel separating the Isle of Sheppey from mainland Kent... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Standing in 1880, burnt down year unknown | |||
Smarden Smarden Smarden is a civil parish and village, west of Ashford in Kent, South East England.The village has The Church of St. Michael which because of its high scissor beam roof is sometimes known as "The Barn of Kent".... |
West Mill Town mill Corne's Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1680 | 1933 Windmill World |
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Smarden | East Mill Black Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1804 | Standing in 1933, gone by 1953 | ||
Snargate Snargate Snargate is a village near New Romney in Kent, England.Snargate's most surprising claim to fame in the late 19th century, is that it was home to an important artist. Harold Gilman, sometimes called the English Van Gogh, was a British Impressionist and a member of the Camden Town Group. He grew up... |
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Snodland Snodland Snodland is a small town in the county of Kent, England, located on the River Medway between Rochester and Maidstone. It has a population of about 12,000 people.... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c1839 | Moved to Gillingham (Stedman's) c.1839 | |||
Southborough Southborough, Kent Southborough civil parish, with the title of town in the District of Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, England. It lies immediately to the north of Tunbridge Wells itself, with the A26 London road passing through it. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 11,124... |
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Southfleet Southfleet Southfleet is a small compact village five miles SW of Gravesend in Kent; it is a civil parish within the borough of Dartford, and includes within its boundaries the hamlet of Betsham, and the even smaller settlement of Northfleet Green. The main village is grouped around a crossroads and many of... |
Betsham Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1829 | 1829 | Demolished c.1873 | |
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Stanford Stanford, Kent Stanford is a village in Kent, England close to Ashford, and within the Parish of Stanford. It has been divided by the M20 into Stanford North and Stanford South. There is a windmill to the north of the M20 and west of Stone Street. The parish church is All Saints.-External links:*... |
Stanford Mill Stanford Windmill Stanford Windill is a Grade II listed tower mill in Stanford, Kent, England that was built in 1857. It stands on Kennett Lane in Stanford.-History:... |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1857 | Windmill World | ||
Stansted Stansted, Kent Stansted is a village and rural parish in the Tonbridge and Malling district of the county of Kent in the United Kingdom .It is located at , close by the M20 motorway... |
Stansted Mill | 1736 1769 |
1736 | 1769 | ||
Staple Staple, Kent Staple is a small village and civil parish in east Kent. It lies southwest of the nearby village of Ash and the town of Sandwichand east of Canterbury.-History:... |
Barnsole Mill | 1870s | Burnt down c.1914 | |||
Staplehurst Staplehurst Staplehurst can mean:* Staplehurst in England* RAF Staplehurst, a World War II airfield in England* Staplehurst railway station* Staplehurst rail crash, a railway accident in 1865* Staplehurst, Nebraska, a small village in the United States... |
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Staplehurst | Staplehurst Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Burnt down 22 June 1911 Windmill World |
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Stelling Minnis Stelling Minnis Stelling Minnis is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District in Kent, England. The village lies to the south of Canterbury, and to the east of the B2068, Stone Street, the Roman road, which takes traffic between Lympne and Canterbury.- Windmill :... |
Brambleton | 1736 | 1736 | 1736 | ||
Stelling Minnis | Brambleton | 1736 1769 |
1736 | 1769 | ||
Stelling Minnis | Brambleton Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
c.1850 | 1881 | ||
Stelling Minnis | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | Demolished 1866 | ||
Stelling Minnis | Davison's Mill Davison's Mill, Stelling Minnis Davison's mill is a Grade I listed smock mill] in Stelling Minnis, Kent, England that was built in 1866. It was the last windmill working commercially in Kent when it closed in the autumn of 1970.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1866 | Windmill World | ||
St Margaret's at Cliffe | Mill Close Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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St Margarets Bay | St Margaret's Bay Mill St Margaret's Bay Windmill St Margarets Bay Windmill is a Grade II listed Smock mill on South Foreland, the southeasternmost point of England. It was built in 1929 to generate electricity for the attached house, high on the White Cliffs of Dover.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1929 | Windmill World | ||
St Nicholas at Wade St Nicholas at Wade St Nicholas-at-Wade is a both a village and a civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England. The parish had a recorded population of 782 at the 2001 Census... |
1719 | 1719 | 1719, demolished by 1791 | |||
Stodmarsh Stodmarsh Stodmarsh is a small village 5 miles to the east of Canterbury in east Kent, England, overlooking the valley of the River Stour.Stodmarsh is now part of the parish of Wickhambreaux... |
Hollow Post | Mid C19th | Windmill World | |||
Strood Strood Strood is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in South East England. It is part of the ceremonial county of Kent. It lies on the north west bank of the River Medway at its lowest bridging point, and is part of the Rochester post town.... |
Strood Hill Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished c.1860 | ||
Strood | Field's Mill |
1843 | Burnt down c.1875 | Image on Medway Council website | ||
Strood | Killick's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Standing in 1891, gone by 1933 | Image on Medway Council website | |
Sutton Valence Sutton Valence Sutton Valence is a village some five miles SE of Maidstone, Kent, England on the Greensand Ridge overlooking the Vale of Kent and Weald. One of the main landmarks in the village is , of which only the ruins of the 12th century keep remain, under the ownership of English Heritage, open any... |
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Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c1720 | Demolished 1945 Windmill World |
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Swingfield | Old Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Swingfield | Old Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1872 | Blown down 1884 | ||
Swingfield | New Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1885 | Burnt down August 1911 | ||
Swingfield | Selstead Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1880 | Burnt down spring 1885 |
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Tenterden Tenterden Tenterden is a Cinque Port town in the Ashford District of Kent, England. It stands on the edge of the Weald, overlooking the valley of the River Rother.... |
Shoreham Lane | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Tenterden | Mill Farm | 1736 1769 |
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Tenterden | Goods Hill Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
c.1807 | Demolished 1896 | ||
Tenterden | Ashbourne Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1807 | Demolished December 1912 | ||
Tenterden | Leigh Green Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1818 | Burnt down 26 November 1913 | ||
Teynham Teynham Teynham is a large village, and civil parish in Kent, England, in the district of Swale. The parish lies to the north of the A2 some three miles west of Faversham, and includes the hamlet of Conyer, on an inlet of the Swale, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey... |
Conyer Quay | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1850s | 1850s | ||
Throwley Throwley Throwley is a village in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England.Throwley lies on top of the kent North Downs in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty... |
Parsonage Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1736 | 1736 | 1884 | |
Throwley | Clare's Forstal Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1872 | Demolished 1915 | ||
Tonbridge Tonbridge Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 30,340 in 2007. It is located on the River Medway, approximately 4 miles north of Tunbridge Wells, 12 miles south west of Maidstone and 29 miles south east of London... |
Uridge's Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1843 | Demolished c.1872 | ||
Tonge Tonge, Kent Tonge is a village near Sittingbourne in Kent, England.Local history has it that a man wished to wed the daughter of a local chief and as a wedding gift, the chief, not approving the marriage, granted the man as much land as could be held in a bulls hide. The man, being crafty, cut the hide into... |
Tonge Mill | 1815 | 1834 | |||
Tunbridge Wells | Calverley Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1860, Machinery used in a windmill at Crowborough Pratt's Mill, Crowborough Pratt's Mill is a tower mill at Crowborough, Sussex, England which has been truncated and converted to residential accommodation.-History:Pratt's Mill was built between September 1861 and February 1862. The machinery from Calverley Mill, Tunbridge Wells was used in the construction of the mill... . |
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Tunbridge Wells | Culverden Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1832 | Demolished c.1870 |
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Ulcombe Ulcombe Ulcombe is a village near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The name has evolved from 'Owl-coomb', 'coomb' meaning 'a deep little wooded valley; a hollow in a hill side' in Old English. It stands on the Greensand Way... |
Ulcombe Hill Mill | 1769 | Demolished c.1850s | |||
Ulcombe | Windmill Hill Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1878 | Demolished 16 July 1911 | ||
Upchurch Upchurch Upchurch village is situated at the junction of numerous minor roads in the Swale district of Kent, England. It is a civil parish within Swale Borough Council, and the village centre is about 1 mile east of the boundary with the unitary authority of Medway.-History:Upchurch lay on a... |
Wakeley's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Burnt down September 1910 | ||
Uphill Uphill Uphill is a village on the edge of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England.-History:There is evidence of a port at Uphill since Roman times, probably for the export of lead from the Mendip Hills... |
Uphill Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1790 | Demolished May 1931 |
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Walmer Walmer Walmer is a town in the district of Dover, Kent in England: located on the coast, the parish of Walmer is six miles north-east of Dover. Largely residential, its coastline and castle attract many visitors... |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 | 1736 | 1736 | ||
Waltham Waltham, Kent Waltham is a village southwest of Canterbury in Kent, England.... |
Cloke's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1872 | Blown down 11 February 1931 Windmill World |
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Waltham | Dilnot's Old Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
c.1850 | Collapsed 20 May 1910 Windmill World |
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Warehorne | 1596 | 1596 | 1596 | |||
Warehorne | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1900 | ||
Westerham Westerham Westerham is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, in South East England with 5,000 people. The parish is south of the North Downs, ten miles west of Sevenoaks. It covers 5800 acres . It is recorded as early as the 9th century, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book in a... |
Newland Mill | Vertical Axis mill | 1792 | 1819 | ||
Westerham | Hosey Common Mill | 1596 1610 |
1596 | 1610 | ||
Westerham | Hosey Common Mill | 1858 | Burnt down c.1860 | |||
West Hougham | West Hougham Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1802 | Collapsed 1951 Windmill World |
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West Kingsdown West Kingsdown West Kingsdown is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the North Downs, north of Sevenoaks town, within the London Commuter Belt... |
Old Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1843 | Burnt Down May 1909 | ||
West Kingsdown | West Kingsdown Mill West Kingsdown Windmill West Kingsdown Windmill is a Grade II listed smock mill in West Kingsdown, Kent, England that was built in the early nineteenth century at Farningham and moved to West Kingsdown in 1880. It is the survivor of a pair of windmills.-Post mill:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1880 | Windmill World | ||
Westwell | Tutt Hill Mill | 1878 | Burnt down c.1880 | |||
Whitfield Whitfield, Kent Whitfield is an ancient village and civil parish in the English county of Kent. It has a modern counterpart in the large settlement located at the junction of the A2 and A256 roads, some four miles north of Dover, of which that part of Whitfield has become a suburb of the Dover urban area.The... |
Whitfield Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1805 | Demolished c.1916 | ||
Whitstable Whitstable Whitstable is a seaside town in Northeast Kent, Southeast England. It is approximately north of the city of Canterbury and approximately west of the seaside town of Herne Bay. It is part of the City of Canterbury district and has a population of about 30,000.Whitstable is famous for its oysters,... |
Borstal Hill | 1736 | 1736 | 1736 | ||
Whitstable | Black Mill Black Mill, Whitstable Black Mill, or Borstal Hill Mill is a smock mill in Whitstable, Kent, England that was built in 1815. It is now a part of a private residence at the end of Millers Court.-History:... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1815 | Windmill World | ||
Whitstable | Borstal Hill pumping mill | |||||
Whitstable | Feakins' Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished 1905 Windmill World |
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Whitstable | Feakins' Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
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Willesborough Willesborough Willesborough is a residential suburb on the eastern side of Ashford, Kent, England.-The area:The South Willesborough Dykes area, on the west bank of the East Stour river, is an area of sheep fields drained by dykes. The area is designated as the South Willesborough Dykes Site of Nature... |
Old Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished 1868 | ||
Willesborough | New Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1869 | Windmill World | ||
Wingham Wingham, Kent Wingham is a civil parish and English Kent village situated along the ancient coastal road, now the A257, from Richborough to London and close to Canterbury. It has existed since the Stone Age but only became established as a village in Roman times. The Domesday book tells us that during Saxon... |
Wingham Well |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1878 | Demolished December 1963 | ||
Wingham | Shatterling Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1769 | 1769 | 1769 | |
Wittersham Wittersham Wittersham is a village and civil parish, part of the Isle of Oxney, south of Ashford in Kent, South East England, near Tenterden.The Domesday Book does not mention Wittersham, but it does assign the manor of Palstre to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. Palstre was only one of four places in the Weald,... |
Old Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | Demolished 1922 | |
Wittersham | Stocks Mill |
Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1781 | Windmill World | ||
Woodchurch Woodchurch, Kent Woodchurch is a village and civil parish, 7 miles from the market town of Ashford and from the Cinque Ports town of Tenterden, in Kent, South East England.... |
Upper Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Standing in 1933, gone by 1939 | |
Woodchurch | Lower Mill Lower Mill, Woodchurch Lower mill is a smock mill in Woodchurch, Kent, England that was built in 1820. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.-History:Lower Mill was built in 1820, one of a pair of smock mills, the other being the Upper Mill. It may have had common sails when built as the sale of a pair of sails is recorded... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1820 | Windmill World | ||
Woodnesborough Woodnesborough Woodnesborough is a village in East Kent two miles west of Sandwich.Its name is believed to originate from Woden's Borough after Anglo-Saxon god Woden .... |
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1695 | 1736 | |||
Woodnesborough | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1736 1769 |
1736 | Moved to Ash (Mount Ephraim) in 1818 | ||
Wormshill Wormshill Wormshill , historically called Wormsell, is a small village and civil parish within the Borough of Maidstone, Kent, England. The parish is approximately south of The Swale and north of Maidstone. The villages of Frinsted and Bicknor are equidistant to the east and west, respectively; while... |
Beddington (north) | |||||
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Worth Worth, Kent Worth is a small village situated near Sandwich, Kent, England. It has two public houses, a church, and a school.C.S. Forester's fictional naval hero Horatio Hornblower was born in the village of Worth, according to Hornblower's biographer Cyril Northcote Parkinson [see The Life and Times of... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1769 | 1769 | Demolished c.1903 | ||
Wrotham Wrotham Wrotham is a village situated on the Pilgrims' Way in Kent, at the foot of the North Downs. It is located one mile north of Borough Green and approximately five miles east of Sevenoaks. It is within the junction of the M20 and M26 motorways.... |
Fry's Mill |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1800 | Burnt down 1906 | ||
Wye | Wye Windmill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1843 | Demolished c.1920 | ||
Yalding Yalding Yalding is a village and part of Yalding civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England.The village is situated six miles south-west of Maidstone at a point where the Rivers Teise and Beult join the River Medway.... |
Rugmore (Rugmer) Hill Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1839 | 1870s | ||
Yalding | Downs Farm Mill | Post Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1844 | Demolished c.1870 | ||
Yalding | Claygate Mill | 1847 | 1847 |
Locations formerly within Kent
- For windmills in Bexley Heath, BlackheathBlackheath, LondonBlackheath is a district of South London, England. It is named from the large open public grassland which separates it from Greenwich to the north and Lewisham to the west...
, BromleyBromleyBromley is a large suburban town in south east London, England and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Bromley. It was historically a market town, and prior to 1963 was in the county of Kent and formed the administrative centre of the Municipal Borough of Bromley...
, ChelsfieldChelsfieldChelsfield is a place in the London Borough of Bromley in London, England.The name is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cillesfelle, meaning land of a man called Cēol....
, ChislehurstChislehurstChislehurst is a suburban district in south-east London, England, and an electoral ward of the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross.-Toponymy:...
, DeptfordDeptfordDeptford is a district of south London, England, located on the south bank of the River Thames. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne, and from the mid 16th century to the late 19th was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first of the Royal Navy Dockyards.Deptford and the docks are...
, DowneDowneDowne is a village in the London Borough of Bromley in London, UK.Downe is south west of Orpington and south east of Charing Cross. Downe lies in a wooded valley, and much of the centre of the village is unchanged; the former village school now acts as the village hall.-Darwin:Charles Darwin...
, ElthamEltham, London-Parks and open spaces:There is a large variety of open green space in Eltham, in the form of parkland, fields and woodland.*Avery Hill Park is large, open parkland, situated to the east of Eltham. It is most notable for its Winter Garden, a hothouse containing tropical trees and plants from around...
, ErithErithErith is a district of southeast London on the River Thames. Erith's town centre has undergone a series of modernisations since 1961.-Pre-medieval:...
, GreenwichGreenwichGreenwich is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time...
, KestonKestonKeston is a part suburban, part rural area of the London Borough of Bromley, England. It lies on the edge of Hayes Common, to the northwest of Greater London's border with Kent.-History:...
, LeeLee, LondonLee is a district of south London, England, located mostly in the London Borough of Lewisham and partly in the London Borough of Greenwich. The district lies to the east of Lewisham, one mile west of Eltham, and one mile south of Blackheath village...
, Plumstead CommonPlumstead CommonPlumstead Common is a common in Plumstead, in the London Borough of Greenwich, south-east London. It is bound to the north by Old Mill Road and to the south by Plumstead Common Road. To the east lies Winn or Winn's Common...
, SydenhamSydenhamSydenham is an area and electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham; although some streets towards Crystal Palace Park, Forest Hill and Penge are outside the ward and in the London Borough of Bromley, and some streets off Sydenham Hill are in the London Borough of Southwark. Sydenham was in...
and WoolwichWoolwichWoolwich is a district in south London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.Woolwich formed part of Kent until 1889 when the County of London was created...
see List of windmills in Greater London.
Maps
The maps quoted by date are:-- 1414 – Thomas of Elmham (map of Thanet)
- 1596 – Phil Symondson
- 1610 – John SpeedJohn SpeedJohn Speed was an English historian and cartographer.-Life:He was born at Farndon, Cheshire, and went into his father's tailoring business where he worked until he was about 50...
- 1695 – Robert MordenRobert MordenRobert Morden was a British bookseller, publisher, and maker of maps and globes.He was among the first successful commercial map makers....
- 1719 – Dr Harris
- 1736 – Emanuel BowenEmanuel BowenEmanuel Bowen was an English map engraver, who worked for George II of England and Louis XV of France as a geographerHe published a 'Complete Atlas of Geography,' 1744-7; an 'English Atlas, with a new set of maps,' 1745; a 'Complete Atlas .....
- 1769 – Andrews, Dury and Herbert
- 1829 – Greenwood & Co