Great Gransden windmill, Cambridgeshire

Great Gransden #2303

Search: Google images eBay wikipedia YouTube

NGR: TL277555

(52.18315,-0.1333)

OS Map, OS historical, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap Bing Google Earth (web) geograph GeoHack

Map/aerial photo of the area around the mill

open trestle post mill function:Corn mill - renovated 2018

Opening times - WARNING : may not be up to date

opening times	charges	website	notes
10/5/26 11:00-15:00 Please verify before visiting	by donation	https://windmill.gransdens.org/

Vintage Morris Minor at Great Gransden mill, 10th August 2001

The Field magazine cover showing a field of poppies, with Great Gransden post mill in the background, issue July 1996
The Field magazine

Post mill, Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire, Oct 35
From a collection owned by Jan Smith

Great Gransden, , 22/5/89
© Peter Hedges collection

Great Gransden, , 13/4/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection

Great Gransden, , 17/8/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection

Great Gransden, , 20/10/80
© Trevor Stainwright collection

Great Gransden, , 28/7/81
© Trevor Stainwright collection

Great Gransden, , 25/4/82
© Trevor Stainwright collection

Great Gransden, , 17/7/83
© Trevor Stainwright collection

[Vintage car tour]

Entry in Mills Archive database - #2303 - Post mill, Great Gransden

Muggeridge Collection photos

538138 - Gr.Gransden. 3/4 Rear. Hunts.
538139 - Gt. Grandsen. 3/4 Rear. Hunts. William Burrell Muggeridge Studying Mill, Left.
538140 - Gt. Grandsen. Side. Hunts.
538141 - Gt.Gransden. 3/4 Rear. Hunts.
538142 - Gt. Gransden. 3/4 Rear. Hunts.
538143 - Gt.Gransden 3/4 Rear. Hunts
538144 - Gt.Gransden. Side. Hunts.
538145 - Great Gransden. 3/4-Front. Hunts.
538146 - Great Gransden. 3/4-Rear Over Gate. Hunts.
538147 - Great Gransden. Side. Close. Hunts.
F183669 - Great Gransden. Hunts. 6 Jul 1969. (colour slide)
F183670 - Great Gransden. Hunts. 6 Jul 1969. (colour slide)
F183671 - Great Gransden. Hunts. 6 Jul 1969. (colour slide)

Great Gransden Windmill [2025-06-22]

Chris Allen

Great Gransden Windmill [2025-06-22]

Chris Allen

Great Gransden mill, less the sails [2020-03-21] - HD

Adrian S Pye

Great Gransden mill, less the sails [2020-03-21] - HD

Adrian S Pye

Great Gransden: windmill restoration [2015-11-01] - HD

John Sutton

Great Gransden Mill [2002-09-29] - HD

Kim Fyson

Great Gransden Village sign [2014-01-02] - HD

Bikeboy

Great Gransden Mill [2007-06-03]

Jeff Tomlinson

Great Gransden Windmill [2006-10-24]

Richard Thomas

(9) Geograph images are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence

Listed Building, Grade II*: POST MILL (listed 1983-11-18)

Official website: Great Gransden
Hi-res image by Donald Muggeridge: Great Gransden, 1979

[Waymarking] [Biglobe]

Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman

post mill

Photos: (1) Stainwright (a) undergoing restoration (2) NMR (a-h) preserved (i) rear door, ladder and steps

News item: Star trails at Great Gransden (14/8/07)

News item: MG club at Great Gransden mill (9/2/05)

Flickr images are copyright their individual photographers.

Facebook

1 Facebook posts and images

Document: What do dendrochronology and other timber-dating methods tell us about the history of English post mills.pdf

for information on Post mill, Great Gransden

Images from Historic England - hover over image to see copyright info, and to enable zoom

Post Mill

Mill Road, Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, SG19 3AG

18 Mar 2005 - Photograph (Digital)

From the Images of England project

International Mill Database Entry
name	Great Gransden post mill
id	48965
description	17th century open trestle post mill, which last worked in 1912; sails and most internal machinery in place
drive power recent	windmill
drive type recent	sails
mill type	post mill
function type	grain mill
condition type	not functional
map location	52.183135,-0.133400
country	United Kingdom
state	England
county	Cambridgeshire
city	Great Gransden
zip	SG19 3AG
street	Mill Rd
logo detail	windmill_nophoto
sails	cloth; shuttered

Great Gransden windmill, Cambridgeshire 🌍

Great Gransden #2303

Opening times - WARNING : may not be up to date

Muggeridge Collection photos