A list of windmills in Buckinghamshire, UK.
Locations
edit| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aylesbury | Walton Green | 1798 | 1798 | |||
| Aylesbury | Walton Green (2nd mill) | 1798 | 1798 | |||
| Aylesbury | Bierton Road Mill | 1788 | 1788 | 1788 | ||
| Beaconsfield | Tower | 1811 | 1968, collapsed by 1976 | |||
| Bledlow Ridge | Bledlow Ridge Mill | Post | 1798 | Dismantled 1933 | ||
| Brill | 1286 | 1286 | ||||
| Brill | 1345 | 1345 | ||||
| Brill | Brill Windmill Nixey's Mill SP 652 142 |
Post | 1788 | 1668 | Windmill World | 
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| Brill | Parson's Mill[1] | 1788 | 1788 | Demolished 1906[2] | ||
| Brill | (3rd mill) | 1798 | 1798 | |||
| Chalfont St Giles | 1788 | 1788 | 1788 | |||
| Chalfont St Peter | Astingwood | 1788 | 1788 | 1788 | ||
| Chesham | Smock | c. 1650 | Moved to Lacey Green, 1821 | |||
| Cholesbury | Hawridge Mill Cholesbury Mill |
Smock[3] | 1863 | Demolished 1884 | ||
| Cholesbury | Cholesbury Mill SP 935 069 |
Tower | 1884 | Windmill World | 
| |
| Coleshill | Grove's Mill SU 948 948 |
Tower | 1856 | Windmill World | 
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| Cuddington | Post | 18th century | Demolished 1925 | |||
| Dynton | 1788 | 1788 | 1788 | |||
| Edlesborough | 1788 | 1788 | 1788 | |||
| Edlesborough | SP 982 192 | tower | Early 19th century | Windmill World | ||
| Farnham Royal | 1798 | 1798 | ||||
| Fulmer | Tower | 19th century | ||||
| Great Horwood | Tower | 1864 | Demolished c. 1940 | |||
| Great Horwood | Singleborough Mill | 1830 | 1830 | 1830 | ||
| Great Linford | 1220[2] | 1220[2] | ||||
| Great Missenden | Post | 1788 | 1788 | Burnt down c. 1876 | ||
| Grove | 1788 | 1788 | 1798 | |||
| Haddenham | Post | 1788 | 1788 | 1918[4] | ||
| Haddenham | Old Mill | Post | Burnt down 14 October 1877.[5] | |||
| Haddenham | Tower | 1878 | Demolished 1930s[2] | |||
| Hartwell | 1798 | 1798 | ||||
| Hillesden | 1899 (OS Map) | 1959 (OS Map) | ||||
| Hulcott | 1788 | 1788 | 1798 | |||
| Ibstone | 1633 | 1633 | ||||
| Ibstone | Cobstone Windmill SU 769 915 |
Smock | 1816 | Windmill World | 
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| Ickford | 1788 | 1788 | 1788 | |||
| Lacey Green | Lacey Green Windmill SP 819 008 |
Smock | 1821 | Windmill World | 
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| Little Missenden (Holmer Green) | Tower | c. 1829 | Collapsed 1929 | |||
| Long Crendon | 1297 | 1297 | ||||
| Long Crendon | Post | 1788 | 1788 | Demolished 1931[2] | ||
| Long Crendon | Chilton Road Mill[2] | Tower[2] | 1864 | Demolished 1925[2] | ||
| Mursley | Post | 1788 | 1788 | Burnt down c. 1895 | ||
| New Bradwell | New Bradwell Windmill SP 831 411 |
Tower | 1805 | Windmill World | 
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| North Crawley | 1834 | 1798 | 1834 | |||
| North Crawley | 1834 | 1798 | 1834 | |||
| North Marston | SP 775 228 | Smock | 1788 | 1788 | 1864 Windmill World |
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| Padbury | 1788 | 1788 | 1864 | |||
| Pitstone | Pitstone Windmill SP 945 157 |
Post | 1788 | 1627, roundhouse built 1895 | Windmill World | 
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| Prestwood | 19th century | 19th century | ||||
| Princes Risborough | 1798 | 1798 | ||||
| Quainton | Banner Mill SP 746 203 |
Tower | 1832 | Windmill World | 
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| Radnage | 1788 | 1788 | 1788 | |||
| Stantonbury | Tower | 1907 | 
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| Stewkley | Smock | 1839 | 1930[6] | |||
| Stewkley | 1883 | 1883 | ||||
| Stokenchurch | Post | 1788 | 1736 | Blown down 1935[2] | ||
| Stoke Mandeville | 1788 | 1788 | 1788 | |||
| Stone | 1801[7] | 1914[8] | ||||
| Swanbourne | 13th century | 13th century | ||||
| Thornborough | SP 737 352 | Tower | 1840s | Windmill World | ||
| Towersey[9] | 1788 | 1788 | 1798 | |||
| Turweston | 1798 | 1796 | 1798 | |||
| Twyford | Tower | 1788 | 1788 | 1798 | ||
| Twyford | Tower | 19th century | 1935[10] | |||
| Waddesdon | Tower | 1835 | 1930[11] | |||
| Wendover | SP 873 082 |
Tower | 1788 | 1788 | Windmill World | |
| Wexham | SU 995 844 | Tower | Windmill World | |||
| Whitchurch | 1776 | 1864 | ||||
| Wing | 1788 | 1788 | Demolished c. 1798 | |||
| Winslow | (five mills) | All burnt down in 1760[7] |
- Mock mill
| Location | Name of mill | Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes | Caldecotte Mill | Tower | 1990 | Built as a pub and restaurant | 
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Sources
editUnless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is Vince, John (1976). Windmills in Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns. Thames Ditton: Format Publishing. ISBN 0-905759-00-1.
Maps
edit- 1788 Thomas Jeffrey
- 1834 Ordnance Survey
Notes
editMills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.
References
edit- ^ "group of boys standing in front of Nixey's Mill; Parson's Mill in background". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Windmills of Buckinghamshire". Windmill World. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ "Hawridge Mill, smock mill, pulled down 1884". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ "Haddenham Postmill, 4 common sails derelict, 3 figures and cow 1918". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ "Severe Gale". The Standard. No. 16609. London. 17 October 1877. p. 6.
- ^ "sketch of the windmill". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ a b Foreman, Wilfred (1983). Oxfordshire Mills. Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-441-1.
- ^ "drawing of the derelict windmill". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ In Oxfordshire since 1932
- ^ Photo dated 1935 in Mills Archive
- ^ "sketch of the windmill". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.