List of windmills in Warwickshire
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Location Name of mill and
grid reference
Type Maps First mention
or built
Last mention
or demise
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Allesley
Allesley
Allesley is a civil parish on the northwestern edge of the City of Coventry, West Midlands, England, about 3 miles west of Coventry city centre. According to the 2001 census. the parish had a population of 805. Until recently it contained to a factory belonging to the car maker, Jaguar...

1325 1325
Ardens Grafton
Ardens Grafton
Ardens Grafton is a hamlet or small village in the Stratford on Avon district of Warwickshire, England, situated about 4 miles east of Alcester and 14 miles west of the county town of Warwick...

1796 1571 1796
Atherstone
Atherstone
Atherstone is a town in Warwickshire, England. The town is located near the northernmost tip of Warwickshire, close to the border with Staffordshire and Leicestershire and is the administrative headquarters of the borough of North Warwickshire.-History:...

1753 1573
Attleborough
Attleborough, Warwickshire
Attleborough is an area of Nuneaton in Warwickshire in central England. It is about a mile south-east of the town centre. The centre of Attleborough has a village feel to it and contains a number of shops, restaurants, takeaways and pubs...

Quarry Farm 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....

Early C19th 1944
Austrey
Austrey
Austrey is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. The village is at the northern extremity of the county, near Newton Regis and No Man's Heath, and close to the Leicestershire villages of Appleby Magna, Norton-juxta-Twycross and Orton on the...

1252 1252
Austrey 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...

1824 Demolished c1905
Austrey 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....

C18th Demolished c1915
Avon Dassett
Avon Dassett
Avon Dassett is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England, nestling among the Burton Dassett Hills about four miles east of Kineton and seven miles north of Banbury in Oxfordshire...

1284 1284
Avon Dassett 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...

1725 Demolished 1924
Baxterley
Baxterley
Baxterley is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire in England. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 335. The village is about two miles west of Atherstone.-History:...

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...

1793 Demolished c1969
Berkswell
Berkswell
Berkswell is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, county of West Midlands, England.- Geography:It is in the east of the borough, borders Coventry and is about west of Coventry city centre.- History and places of interest :...

Balsall Common Mill
Balsall Common Mill, Berkswell
Berkswell windmill or Balsall Common mill is a four bladed tower mill constructed in 1826 on the site of a former post mill, near the village of Balsall Common, in the parish of Berkswell, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands...


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....

1826 Windmill World
Berkswell Bradnock's Marsh 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....

Early C19th Truncated c1900
Binley
Binley, Coventry
Binley is a suburb in the east of Coventry, England. Binley evolved from a small mining village on the outskirts of Coventry to a large residential area composing private residences and council-owned properties....

1291 1291
Birdingbury
Birdingbury
Birdingbury is a village and civil parish in the Rugby district of Warwickshire, England, just south of the River Leam, and not far from Draycote Water. It is located roughly half way between Rugby and Leamington Spa, about eight miles from each. According to the 2001 census it had a population of...

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...

1675 Demolished late C19th
Birmingham Demolished c1745
Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

Holloway Head Mill
Chapman's 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....

1745 Demolished 1873 or 1878
Birmingham Deritend Heath, Cooper'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...

1731 1731 1836
Birmingham Birmingham Heath 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...

1722
1800
1722 Demolished 1849
Birmingham Speedwell Mill 1810 1810
Birmingham Baskerville's 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....

Mid C18th, post 1745 1789
Birmingham Soho Mill, Handsworth
Handsworth, West Midlands
Handsworth is an inner city area of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England. The Local Government Act 1894 divided the ancient Staffordshire parish of Handsworth into two urban districts: Handsworth and Perry Barr. Handsworth was annexed to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire in 1911...

Gone by 1749
Birmingham Hutton's Mill, Handsworth 1759 Demolished late C19th
Birmingham Hamstead Mill, Handsworth gone by 1682
Birmingham Greet Mill
Red Hill Mill
Yardley Mill,
Greet
Greet, Birmingham
Greet is a historical area in south Birmingham, England, around modern Sparkhill.Now a name obsolete in addresses, Greet, meaning "gravel" ", was one of the medieval manors around Birmingham on the eastern gravelly slopes of the sandstone ridge which runs through central Birmingham...

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...

1725 1668 1800
Birmingham Lea Hall Mill
Bach Mill, Yardley
Yardley, Birmingham
Yardley is an area in east Birmingham, England. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee.Birmingham Yardley is a constituency and its Member of Parliament is John Hemming.-Features:...

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...

1800* 1800 1800
Birmingham North of Over Mill (watermill), Erdington
Erdington
Erdington is a suburb northeast of Birmingham city centre, England and bordering Sutton Coldfield. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee...

1833 1833
Birmingham North west of Dwarfeholes Mill (watermill), Erdington 1833 1833
Birmingham Wake Green Mill, Moseley
Moseley
Moseley is a suburb of Birmingham, England, two miles south of the city centre. The area is a popular cosmopolitan residential location and leisure destination, with a number of bars and restaurants...

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...

1664 1819, gone by 1834
Birmingham Saltley Mill, Saltley
Saltley
Saltley is an inner-city area of Birmingham, east of the city centre. The area is currently part of the Washwood Heath ward, although formerly a feature of the Nechells ward...

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...

1722
1725
1731
1755
1722 1755, gone by 1760
Birmingham Edgbaston Mill, Edgbaston
Edgbaston
Edgbaston is an area in the city of Birmingham in England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee. The constituency includes the smaller Edgbaston ward and the wards of Bartley Green, Harborne and Quinton....

1822 1810 1822, gone by 1834
Birmingham Bristnall's End Mill gone by 1794
Birmingham Holdford Mill 1834 1834 1843
Birmingham Bleak Hills Mill, Aston
Aston
Aston is an area of the City of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Lying to the north-east of the Birmingham city centre, Aston constitutes an electoral ward within the council constituency of Ladywood.-History:...

1814 1834
Birmingham Slade Mill, Aston gone by C18th
Bishop's Itchington
Bishop's Itchington
Bishop's Itchington is a village and civil parish about southeast of Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, England.The village is on the B4451 road about southwest of Southam, and about northeast of Junction 12 on the M40 motorway...

1279 1602
Bishop's Tachbrook
Bishop's Tachbrook
Bishop's Tachbrook is a village and civil parish in the Warwick district of Warwickshire, England, about three miles south of Warwick and Leamington Spa. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,514. Many of the buildings in the village are of traditional half-timbered design.The...

1557 1557
Bretford
Bretford
Bretford is a small hamlet in Warwickshire, England. It is part of the parish of Brandon and Bretford.Bretford lies at a junction between the A428 road and the old Fosse Way. The name of the village comes from the old ford crossing point over the River Avon which runs just south of the village...

1279 1360
Bulkington
Bulkington
Bulkington is a large village and former parish in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, UK. In the 2001 census it had a population of 6,303. It is located around north-east of Coventry, just east of the towns of Nuneaton and Bedworth and south-west of Hinckley...

Weston Mill 1277 1710
Bulkington Marston Jabet Mill 1590 1590
Burton Dassett
Burton Dassett
Burton Dassett is a parish and shrunken medieval village in Warwickshire. Much of the area is now the Burton Dassett Hills country park. It was enclosed for sheep farming by Sir Edward Belknap at the end of the 15th century....

Le Stonmilne 1367 1367
Burton Dassett Beacon 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....

Late C15th Windmill World
Burton Dassett Northend 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...

1664 Blown down 26 July 1946
Caldecote
Caldecote, Warwickshire
Caldecote is a village in Warwickshire, England, 2 miles north of Nuneaton and south of the A5.-Further reading:Sheasby, Alan Skylark Fields: A Forties Childhood Exeter, Devon: Wheaton Publishers Ltd/Warwickshire Books, ISBN 1-871942-04-7...

1794 1794
Chapel Ascote 1294 1341
Chapel Ascote 1547 1547
Chesterton
Chesterton, Warwickshire
Chesterton is a small village in Warwickshire, England. It is about five miles south of Leamington Spa, near the villages of Harbury and Lighthorne.-Parish:...

Chesterton Mill
Chesterton Windmill
Chesterton Windmill is a 17th century cylindric stone tower windmill with an arched base, located outside the village of Chesterton, Warwickshire...


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....

1632 Windmill World
Chilvers Coton 1556 1556
Church Lawford
Church Lawford
Church Lawford is a village in Warwickshire. It is located just under west of the town of Rugby and east of Coventry. The village lies north of the railway between the two and is also north of the main road, the A428. To the north is the River Avon....

1535 1535
Claverdon
Claverdon
Claverdon is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England, about west of the county town of Warwick.Claverdon's toponym comes from the Old English for "clover 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...

1803 Moved to Shrewley 1832
Coleshill
Coleshill, Warwickshire
Coleshill is a market town in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England, taking its name from the River Cole. It has a population of 6,343 and is situated east of Birmingham.-Location:...

Cole End 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....

1783 Demolished early c20th
Corley
Corley
Corley is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. It is located about northwest of Coventry and is adjacent to the village of Fillongley. The M6 motorway runs close by, and the village is familiar to motorists as it is the site of Corley Services...

Corley Moor 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...

c1800 Demolished 1890s
Coventry
Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...

Foleshill Mill 1682 1822
Coventry Sowe Mill 1291 Late C14th
Coventry Radford Road 1411 1411
Coventry Spon Street 1411 1749
Coventry Outside the New Gate 1583 1583
Coventry Whitley Common 1722 1725
Coventry Whitley Common (2nd mill) 1725 1725
Coventry Stivichall 1725 1725
Coventry Hearshall Common 1716 1725
Coventry Whitley Common 1740 1740
Coventry Wasting's Mill 1807 1807
Cubbington
Cubbington
Cubbington is a village and civil parish with a population of 4,034 adjoining the north-eastern outskirts of Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. Welsh Road, running through the village crossroads, may have been an old sheep drovers' route connecting London and Wales...

1355 1355
Cubbington 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...

1860 Demolished 1870
Dorridge
Dorridge
Dorridge is a village in the West Midlands borough of Solihull, England, with a population of 7800.-Location:Dorridge is to the East of the M40 and the South of the M42 which, along with a small but important green belt area, separates Dorridge and its neighbours of Knowle and Bentley Heath from...

Bentley Heath 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....

c1830 1925
Dunchurch
Dunchurch
Dunchurch is a civil parish and village on the south-western outskirts of Rugby in Warwickshire, England. The 2001 census recorded a population of 2,842 in the village.- History :...

West Heath Mill 1547 1547
Exhall
Exhall
Exhall is a suburban settlement in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, England.- Geography :Exhall is an area south of Bedworth located 4.3 miles north-north-east of Coventry and 3.8 miles south of Nuneaton...

Hall 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....

C18th Truncated c1923, demolished late 1960s
Fenny Compton
Fenny Compton
Fenny Compton is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England, about eight miles north of Banbury. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 797. Its church of St. Peter and St. Clare was built in the 14th century...

1655 1655
Fenny Compton Mill 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...

C18th Collapsed 24 March 1895
Fenny Compton 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...

1655 Demolished 1820s
Fillongley
Fillongley
Fillongley is a village in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire in England.The village is centred around the crossroads of the B4102 and the B4098 and Tamworth....

Corley Moor 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....

Early C19th Windmill World
Frankton
Frankton, Warwickshire
Frankton is a village and civil parish in the Rugby borough of Warwickshire in England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 344.-Etymology:According to W. H...

1291 1291
Grandborough
Grandborough
Grandborough is a small village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Calcutt, Grandborough Fields and Woolscott....

Woolscott
Woolscott
Woolscott is a hamlet in Warwickshire, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Grandborough....

1668 1668
Grandborough Woolscott 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....

c1820 1925
Harbury
Harbury
Harbury is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 2,485....

1279 1291
Harbury (2nd mill) 1279 1291
Harbury (3rd mill) 1291 1291
Harbury Harbury 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....

1812 Windmill World
Hillmorton Offered for sale in 1853
Idlicote 1279 1279
Ilmington
Ilmington
Ilmington is a village and civil parish about north-west of Shipston-on-Stour and south of Stratford-on-Avon in the Cotswolds in Warwickshire, England. Ilmington is the highest village in Warwickshire and is at the foot of the Ilmington Downs, which is the highest point in Warwickshire...

1295 1697
Kenilworth
Kenilworth
Kenilworth is a town in central Warwickshire, England. In 2001 the town had a population of 22,582 . It is situated south of Coventry, north of Warwick and northwest of London....

Tainter's Hill 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....

1778 Windmill World
Kineton
Kineton
Kineton is a village and civil parish on the River Dene in south-eastern Warwickshire, England. The village is part of Stratford-on-Avon district, and in the 2001 census it had a population of 2,278....

(two mills) 1279 1565
Kineton Pittern Hill 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....

Late C18th Windmill World
Kings Norton
Kings Norton
Kings Norton is an area of Birmingham, England. It is also a Birmingham City Council ward within the formal district of Northfield.-History:...

Weather Oak Hill Mill
Kings Norton Headley Heath Mill
Ladbroke
Ladbroke, Warwickshire
Ladbroke is a village and civil parish about south of Southam in Warwickshire.-Manor:The earliest known record of Ladbroke is from AD 998, when King Æthelred II granted lands at Southam, Ladbroke and Radbourne to Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce....

Early C13th Early C13th
Leamington Spa
Leamington Spa
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or Leamington or Leam to locals, is a spa town in central Warwickshire, England. Formerly known as Leamington Priors, its expansion began following the popularisation of the medicinal qualities of its water by Dr Kerr in 1784, and by Dr Lambe...

Whitnash Road Mill
Tachbrook Road 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....

c1777 Demolished 1968
Lighthorne
Lighthorne
Lighthorne is a village in Warwickshire, England. It is about south of Leamington Spa.Lighthorne is a small village in a valley and is near Moreton Morrell, Kineton and Wellesbourne....

1316 1627
Little Compton 1885 Demolished early C20th
Long Itchington
Long Itchington
Long Itchington is a large village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 2,161. The village is named after the River Itchen which flows to the south and west of the village....

1347 1353
Marton
Marton, Warwickshire
Marton is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. The village is part of the borough of Rugby and in the 2001 census had a population of 484....

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...

Moved within Marton mid C19th
Marton 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...

Mid C19th Demolished c1907
Meriden Demolished post July 1811
Moreton Morrell
Moreton Morrell
Moreton Morrell is a village and civil parish in the county of Warwickshire, England. It is part of the historic hundred of Kington and is located about three and a half miles north west of the village of Kineton. The settlement was first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Moreton. From at least...

1604 1604
Monks Kirby
Monks Kirby
Monks Kirby is a village and civil parish in north-eastern Warwickshire, England. The population of the parish is 434 .Monks Kirby is located around one mile east of the old Fosse Way, around 8 miles north-west of Rugby, seven miles north-east of Coventry and six miles west of Lutterworth....

Kirby Mill 1291 1721
Monks Kirby Cesters Over Mill 1545 1545
Napton-on-the-Hill
Napton-on-the-Hill
Napton-on-the-Hill, , is a village and civil parish east of Southam in Warwickshire, England.-Manor:...

1543 1543
Napton-on-the-Hill Napton 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....

c1835 Windmill World
Newbold Revel 1538 1593
Newton Regis
Newton Regis
Newton Regis is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. It has a population of about 700 .-Education:...

1285 1285
Northfield Middleton Hall Mill gone by 1722
Northfield Shenley Fields Mill 1692 1692
Norton Lindsey
Norton Lindsey
Norton Lindsey is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, UK. It is located 3.5 miles south-east of the tourist and county town of Warwick and a mile south-east of the M40 motorway. According to the 2001 UK Census the village had between 300 and 350 people living in it. The uncertainty arises...

Norton Lindsey 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....

c1795 Windmill World
Nuneaton
Nuneaton
Nuneaton is the largest town in the Borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth and in the English county of Warwickshire.Nuneaton is most famous for its associations with the 19th century author George Eliot, who was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for...

Tuttle Hill 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....

1821
Pailton
Pailton
Pailton is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Its population in 2001 was recorded as 482. The village was originally known as Pailington....

1587 1587
Packwood Fullard's 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....

Late C18th
Pillerton Priors 1552 1565
Quinton
Quinton, Warwickshire
Quinton is a civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England, about six miles south of Stratford. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1503. The parish contains Upper Quinton and Lower Quinton...

Lower Quinton 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....

Early C19th Demolished spring 1951
Quinton Ridgacre Mill gone by 1722
Ratley
Ratley
Ratley is a village in the civil parish of Ratley and Upton, South Warwickshire, England. It lies on the north west side of the Edge Hill escarpment about 200m above sea level...

Edge 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...

1561 1697
Ratley Edge 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...

Early C19th Demolished 1916
Ratley Ratley Grange 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...

1789 Demolished c1900
Rowington
Rowington
Rowington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. It is five miles north-west of the town of Warwick and five miles south-west of the town of Kenilworth...

Bouncing Bess
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....

1789 Windmill World
Rugby
Rugby, Warwickshire
Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, located on the River Avon. The town has a population of 61,988 making it the second largest town in the county...

Hillmorton 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....

Late C18th Demolished 1899
Sheldon
Sheldon, West Midlands
Sheldon is an area of eastern Birmingham in the West Midlands, England. It is close to the border with the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull and Birmingham International Airport....

Lyndon Green Mill gone by C18th
Sheldon Wells 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...

1675 Demolished early C18th, gone by 1725
Sheldon Sheldon 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...

1788 1840
Shrewley Justice
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....

Late C18th Demolished 1949
Shrewley Pinchem
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 Collapsed 1937
Snitterfield
Snitterfield
Snitterfield is a village and civil parish in the Stratford on Avon district of Warwickshire, England, less than a mile to the north of the A46 road, 4 ½ miles from Stratford upon Avon, 6 ½ miles from Warwick and from Coventry.-History:...

Black Hill 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....

Late C18th 1893
Solihull
Solihull
Solihull is a town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre...

Copt Heath 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....

Late C18th Demolished early C20th
Solihull Olton End Mill
Midlands 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...

Mid C19th Demolished c1900
Solihull Hasluck's Green Mill
Solihull Lodge 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....

Late C18th Demolished September 1957
Southam
Southam
Southam is a small market town in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. The 2001 census recorded a population of 6,509 in the town.The nearest sizeable town to Southam is Leamington Spa, located roughly 7 miles to the west...

Old 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....

c1800 Burnt down 1849
Southam Old 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....

1849 1948, truncated by 1955
Stockton
Stockton, Warwickshire
Stockton is a village and civil parish, in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 1,391. The village is located just to the east of the A426 road two miles north-east of Southam, and eight miles south-west of Rugby.Stockton's name was...

1356 1526
Stockton Rugby Road 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...

Mid C18th Demolished April 1914
Stockton Rugby Road 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....

c1865 Demolished c1923
Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield is a suburb of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Sutton is located about from central Birmingham but has borders with Erdington and Kingstanding. Sutton is in the northeast of Birmingham, with a population of 105,000 recorded in the 2001 census...

Maney Hill Mill 1309 1309
Sutton Coldfield Langley Mill gone by 1722
Sutton Coldfield High Heat 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...

1750
1755
1725 1755, gone by 1788
Tanworth-in-Arden
Tanworth-in-Arden
Tanworth-in-Arden is a small village located in the county of Warwickshire, England. It is located south-east of Birmingham in the Tanworth-in-Arden parish and is administered by Stratford-on-Avon District Council...

Danzey Green Mill
Midlands 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...

1810 Dismantled 1969, re-erected at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings is an open-air museum of rescued buildings which have been relocated to its site in Stoke Heath, a district of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. Founded in 1963 and opened in 1967, the museum was conceived following the dismantling of a 15th-century...

 in 1975.
Thurlaston
Thurlaston, Warwickshire
Thurlaston is a village and parish in the Rugby district of Warwickshire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 352.-Location:...

Thurlaston 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....

1794 Windmill World
Tysoe
Tysoe
Tysoe is a civil parish located in Warwickshire, England, north-west of Banbury. The three main settlements in the parish, Upper, Middle and Lower Tysoe are on a hill, hence the respective village names. Upper and Middle Tysoe have now merged, whereas Lower Tysoe is still separate, a little...

C14th C15th
Tysoe Upper Tysoe Mill
Compton Wynyates 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....

Early C18th Windmill World
Tysoe Middle Tysoe 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...

1752 Blown down 1913
Ufton
Ufton
Ufton is a small village in the Stratford District of Warwickshire, England. It is south east of Leamington Spa and west of Southam on the A425 road. It sits on top of a glacial escarpment 121 metres above sea level which was formed during the last ice age...

1291 1291
Warmington
Warmington, Warwickshire
Warmington is a village in the English county of Warwickshire.Warmington is in the Stratford District Council area. Local matters are in the hands of Warmington and Arlescote parish council. The 2001 census records the parish as having a population of 297...

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...

C17th Demolished c1910
Warton
Warton, Warwickshire
Warton is a village in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, United Kingdom. It is five miles east of Tamworth and four miles north-west of Atherstone, and is in the civil parish of Polesworth....

Warton Mill
Midlands 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...

Early C19th Demolished c1923
Willey
Willey, Warwickshire
Willey is a rural village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. In the 2001 census it had a population of 95.Administratively it forms part of the borough of Rugby; geographically it is just west of the A5 road that marks the county boundary with Leicestershire...

1376 1376
Wolfhamcote 1587 1687
Wolvey
Wolvey
Wolvey is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,741.The village, originally on the main route between Leicester and Coventry, is now on the B4065 and B4109 roads and is located on the Warwickshire/Leicestershire border in an outlying...

1553 1604
Wolvey 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...

c1820 1901
Wooton Wawen Early C17th Early C17th
Wooton Wawen Edstone House 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....

1725 Demolished c1912

Maps

  • 1722 Henry Beighton
  • 1725 Henry Beighton
  • 1731 Samuel & Nathaniel Buck, South-west prospect of Birmingham
  • 1755 Thomas Jeffrey
  • 1792 Sheriff
  • 1800 Taylor
  • 1800* Taylor (map of Worcestershire)
  • 1822 Greenwood
  • 1834 Ordnance Survey
    Ordnance Survey
    Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...


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