Windmills of Kent 🌍


Surviving mills

# photo id name location maps type condition
1 #2754   Aldington NGR: TR056363 smock mill base only remains
2 #2745   Appledore NGR: TQ954304 post mill base incorporated into storage building
3 #2744 Union Mill Appledore NGR: TQ953304 smock mill base house converted
4 #2781 Guilton Mill Ash NGR: TR283584 smock mill Base house converted
5 no
image
#2749 Boundgate Mill Badlesmere NGR: TR010531 smock mill truncated base
6 #2771 Black Mill Barham NGR: TR214510 smock mill base survives
7 #2712 Beacon Mill Benenden NGR: TQ821324 smock mill  
8 no
image
#2737 White Mill Bethersden NGR: TQ929407
(51.13215,0.75662) (approximate location)
smock mill  
9 #2657   Bidborough NGR: TQ562435 tower mill house converted in 2006
10 no
image
#9769 Hudson's Mill Birchington
(51.37041,1.29961)
smock  
11 #2762 Old Mill Blean NGR: TR125607 smock mill  
12 no
image
#2564   Bluebell Hill NGR: TQ747621
(51.35703,-0.5482) (approximate location)
smock mill  
13 no
image
#2756 Miles's Mill Boughton Street NGR: TR058595 smock mill Single storey roofed smock base
14 #2765 St Martins Canterbury NGR: TR161578 tower mill house converted
15 #2746   Charing NGR: TQ957503 smock mill house converted
16 #2770 Ashley Mill Cheriton NGR: TR205373
(51.09169,1.14836) (approximate location)
smock mill  
17 #2780   Chillenden NGR: TR268543 post mill was restored, but destroyed in storm Nov 2003. Rebuilt May-Aug 2005.
18 #2772   Chislet NGR: TR225679 smock mill Destroyed by fire, 15th September 2005. A new residential mock mill built in 2011 on the same plot of land.
19 #2688 Darnley's Mill Cobham NGR: TQ672684 smock mill  
20 #2702 Union Mill Cranbrook NGR: TQ779359 smock mill restored
21 #2783 Upper Mill Eastry NGR: TR304545 smock mill house converted
22 #2637   Edenbridge NGR: TQ443456 tower mill house converted
23 #2729   Egerton NGR: TQ908472 smock mill Upto the 1990s the base was incorporated in an isolated rectangular farm building. Now the building has been extended in several directions and unclear how much of the windmill base survives.
24 #2758 Bodsham Green Elmsted NGR: TR106456 smock mill base remains
25 #2710   Frittenden NGR: TQ813424 post mill some remains of collapsed trestle were visible in the 1980s
26 #2789 Swingate Mill Guston NGR: TR333443 tower mill house converted
27 #2769   Herne NGR: TR184665 smock mill restored
28 #2694   Higham NGR: TQ719715 smock mill  
29 #2656 Watt's Cross Mill Hildenborough NGR: TQ559494 smock mill  
30 #2753   Kennington NGR: TR032454 smock mill base remains. Was colocated with water and steam mills.
31 #2747 Shipley Hatch Mill Kingsnorth NGR: TR001391 smock mill  
32 #2766 Reed's Mill Kingston NGR: TR174500 tower mill House converted 2010-2011 - includes new cap and dummy sails, and a wind-turbine in place of the fantail. Conversion was featured on the Channel 4 TV program, Restoration Man.
33 #2684 Keys Green Mill Kippings Cross NGR: TQ647397 tower mill  
34 #2731   Lenham Heath NGR: TQ914496 smock mill base
35 #2748 Oare Mill Luddenham NGR: TR009625 tower mill house converted
36 no
image
#2743 Champion's Mill Lynsted NGR: TQ944613 smock mill  
37 #2792 Draper's Mill Margate NGR: TR363701 smock mill restored
38 #2680   Meopham NGR: TQ639652 smock mill restored
39 #2755   Newchurch NGR: TR058313 tower mill truncated
40 #2788 New Mill Northbourne NGR: TR331521 smock mill  
41 no
image
#2751 Copton Mill Ospringe NGR: TR014596 tower mill  
42 #2777 Old Mill Preston next Wingham NGR: TR256610 smock mill Low base remains, millstones nearby
43 #2790   Ripple NGR: TR362490 smock mill Served many years as a TV transmitter site, but now magnificently restored as a mill again
44 #2717   Rolvenden NGR: TQ837316 post mill complete
45 #2708 Ringle Crouch Green Mill Sandhurst NGR: TQ804285 smock mill Has been rebuilt as a house from just the base that remained, but can also supposedly generate electricity.
46 #2786 White Mill Sandwich NGR: TR323587 smock mill restored
47 #2778   Sarre NGR: TR260651 smock mill It's complicated! Was restored, but then illegally part converted to residential.
48 #2734 Great Mill Sheerness NGR: TQ921746 smock mill surviving base rebuilt as residential/business structure
49 #2736 Sea View Mill Sheerness NGR: TQ924750 tower mill truncated tower remains in good condition in grounds of block of flats.
50 #2690   Shorne NGR: TQ689713 post mill ruinous building at expected location, but doesn't look very post mill like now, after a number of fires
51 #2705   Sissinghurst NGR: TQ789376 smock mill octagonal brick foundations survive, area used for car parking
52 no
image
#2722 West Mill Smarden NGR: TQ879420 post mill although the cross trees and main post survived for many years (and achieved Listed Building status as such), now only the brick piers exist on site
53 #2791   St Margarets Bay NGR: TR363435 smock mill complete, but was built as part of a residential complex from the start
54 #2763   Stanford NGR: TR128378 tower mill  
55 #2704   Staplehurst NGR: TQ787430 smock mill ruinous remains of smock base
56 #2764 Davison's Mill Stelling Minnis NGR: TR146465 smock mill restored
57 #2655   Stocks Green NGR: TQ558478
(51.20721,0.23001) (approximate location)
smock mill  
58 #2711   Sutton Valence NGR: TQ815493 smock mill house converted
59 #2759 Cloke's Mill Waltham NGR: TR109488 smock mill  
60 no
image
#2760 Dilnot's Mill Waltham NGR: TR110490 smock mill  
61 no
image
#2779   West Hougham NGR: TR267403 smock mill collapsed 1951 - some overgrown wreckage may remain
62 #2661   West Kingsdown NGR: TQ582623 smock mill restored
63 #2757 Borstal Hill Whitstable NGR: TR105652 smock mill house converted
64 #2775 Stodmarsh Mill Wickhambreux NGR: TR233604
(51.29802,1.20267) (approximate location)
post mill miniature pumping mill - very poor condition
65 #2752   Willesborough NGR: TR032422 smock mill restored
66 #2730 Stocks Mill Wittersham NGR: TQ913273 post mill restored
67 #2742 Lower Mill Woodchurch NGR: TQ943354 smock mill restored

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location maps type condition
1 no
image
#2719 Town Mill Biddenden NGR: TQ850382
(51.11229,0.64257) (approximate location)
smock mill  
2 no
image
#2740   Doddington NGR: TQ934575
(51.28289,0.77284) (approximate location)
smock mill demolished 1937
3 no
image
#2697 Great Prospect Mill Frindsbury NGR: TQ737706
(51.40691,0.49710) (approximate location)
smock mill  
4 no
image
#2768 Brook Lane Herne Bay NGR: TR180660
(51.35036,1.13021) (approximate location)
smock mill  
5 no
image
#2732   Iwade NGR: TQ914688
(51.38506,0.75028) (approximate location)
drainage remains recovered and rebuilt at Morse's Wind Engine Park, Repps, Norfolk
6 no
image
    Mayland post  
7 no
image
    Mayland wind engine  
8 no
image
#2727 Meads Mill Milton Regis NGR: TQ900640
(51.34241,0.72762) (approximate location)
smock mill  
9 no
image
    Monkton  
10 no
image
#2776 Corn Mill Nonington NGR: TR269517
(51.21994,1.24822) (approximate location)
smock mill  
11 #2787 Old Mill Northbourne NGR: TR330520
(51.21874,1.33606) (approximate location)
smock mill  
12 no
image
#2793 Thanet Mill Northwood NGR: TR370670
(51.35175,1.40320) (approximate location)
tower mill  
13 no
image
#2794 Grange Road Mill Ramsgate NGR: TR384651
(51.33411,1.42199) (approximate location)
smock mill  
14 no
image
    Sandwich burned down in 1885
15 no
image
#2724 East Mill Smarden NGR: TQ883429
(51.15344,0.69212) (approximate location)
smock mill finished work around 1923
16 #2761 Feakins's Mill Whitstable NGR: TR110661
(51.35389,1.02991) (approximate location)
smock mill  


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