A windmill is located in the Award Map, 1802 (CRO: A84) about ½ mile WSW of the Church, and a good sketch of this mill is added. It is also mapped on the same site in 1826 (Bryant's Map). It was a brick built tower mill with shuttered sails. The base of the mill measured 22 feet overall. James Arthur Smith was miller in 1898 and until it fell into disuse, about 1912. Today, only a decrepit water-tower built upon the lower part of its walling, and a few now idle millstones lying around in close vicinity, mark the site of the mill on what is now a disembowelled hillside.

MAN KILLED BY A WINDMILL — Last week a man named James Messenger, was killed at Houghton Regis, by the sails of a windmill. It appeared that whilst about his work there he imprudently passed close to the sweeps of the sails to get to a door, and one of the fans struck him on the back part of the head. The poor man was struck to the ground with great violence and was picked up insensible. His master rendered assistance and forwarded a messenger to Dunstable for a surgeon, who, in examination found that there was no fracture of the skull, but the poor man was labouring under a severe concussion of the brain, and in a few days after he died.

Particulars and conditions of sale for A steam corn mill, a tower windmill and land (total - 4 acres 1 rod 6 perch) in High Street, Houghton Regis, in occupation of Mr A J Smith. To be sold by Messrs J Cumberland and Sons (by order of the mortgagees, James William Turney, and Albert Edward Turney) under a pwer of sale. 13 Nov 1902