Thaxted windmill, Essex

Thaxted #2404

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John Webb's Mill: tower mill function:Corn mill - restored

Opening times - WARNING : may not be up to date

opening times	charges	website	notes
CLOSED in 2026 and 2027 (under restoration); expected reopening Spring 2028 Please verify before visiting		https://www.johnwebbswindmillthaxted.com/

Plaque says:

Thaxted Windmill Restoration
2003 - 2004
Supported by:
Heritage Lottery Fund
Essex Environment Trust
English Heritage
Thaxted Parish Council
Essex County Council
Yardleys Charity
Uttlesford District Council
CPRE
BAA
Engineer: The Morton Parnership Ltd
Quantity Surveyor: Sawyer & Fisher
Contractor: Noble and Taylor (Ongar) Ltd
Millwright: Tom Davies
Plaque sponsored by: The Morton Partnership Ltd & Noble and Taylor (Ongar) Ltd

Thaxted, 12/1/08

Thaxted, 1995

Thaxted, 1999

Thaxted in the snow, 30/12/2000

Essex Countryside magazine cover showing a (left to right reversed) aerial view of Thaxted including windmill. issue August 1973
Essex Countryside

Essex Countryside magazine cover showing the tower mill at Thaxted against a fiery sky, issue August 1982
Essex Countryside

Essex Countryside magazine cover showing the tower mill at Thaxted, issue May 1992
Essex Countryside

Essex Countryside magazine cover showing Thaxted windmill in the snow, issue January 1999
Essex Countryside

Essex Life and Countryside magazine cover showing the tower mill at Thaxted, issue May 2005
Essex Life and Countryside

Thaxted, , dated 1/7/94 but probably more recent
© Ken Forrest Collection

Thaxted, , c1930s, prior to 1938
© Alan Caston collection

Thaxted, , c1930s prior to 1938
© Alan Caston collection

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #2404 - Lowe's Mill, Thaxted (has photos)

Muggeridge Collection photos

537962 - Thaxted. 3/4Rear. Essex.
537963 - Thaxted. Side 3/4 Fr. Essex.
537964 - Thaxted. 3/4Front Essex.
537965 - Thaxted, 3/4-Front. Essex.
537966 - Thaxted, 3/4-Front From Track. Essex.
537967 - Thaxted. 3/4 Rear. Essex.
538025 - Toppesfield. 3/4-Front. Essex. [Mislabled - this is Thaxted]

[PastScape]

John Webb's windmill, Thaxted [2023-10-19] - HD

Tim Heaton

Approaching Thaxted from the south [2023-10-19] - HD

Tim Heaton

John Webb's Windmill from Below [2023-10-19] - HD

Chris Heaton

John Webb's Windmill [2023-10-19] - HD

Chris Heaton

John Webb's Windmill, Thaxted [2023-05-14]

Chris Allen

John Webb's Windmill, Thaxted [2023-05-14]

Chris Allen

Thaxted Windmill [2019-05-23]

Ben Keating

Thaxted: graveyard and windmill [2002-08-00] - HD

John Sutton

John Webb's Windmill, Thaxted [2019-05-15] - HD

G Laird

John Webb's Windmill, Thaxted [2019-05-15] - HD

G Laird

Thaxted Windmill [2016-12-27] - HD

Chris Morgan

Thaxted Windmill [2016-12-20] - HD

Keith Evans

John Webb's Windmill [2016-12-20] - HD

Keith Evans

Thaxted Windmill [2016-08-17] - HD

John Myers

Almshouses and windmill, Thaxted [2015-08-21] - HD

Jim Osley

Thaxted Mill [2015-03-10] - HD

Paul Franks

View of Thaxted Windmill from the field between the graveyard and the mill [2014-08-16] - HD

Robert Lamb

View of Thaxted Windmill from the path at the rear of the church [2014-08-16] - HD

Robert Lamb

Thaxted windmill seen through wheat field [2014-05-29] - HD

Bikeboy

Thaxted windmill [2013-06-30] - HD

Stefan Czapski

Thaxted windmill [2013-06-09] - HD

Bikeboy

Windmill at Thaxted [2013-06-06]

David Beresford

Thaxted windmill [2010-08-16] - HD

Chris Morgan

Thaxted: the almshouses and windmill from the churchyard [1996-06-29] - HD

Christopher Hilton

Thaxted windmill [2011-09-14]

Richard Green

Thaxted: almshouses and windmill [2002-08-00] - HD

John Sutton

Thaxted Windmill [2007-08-00]

Trevor Harris

Thaxted, from the southern approach road [2009-09-22]

Derek Voller

Thaxted almshouses and mill [2009-06-13]

william

Thaxted windmill [2009-06-13]

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Thaxted mill [2009-06-13]

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John Webbs windmill [2009-06-13]

william

Thaxted Mill and church [2009-02-08]

Bob Jones

Thaxted Windmill and Church taken from B184 [2008-07-28]

John Webber

Almshouses & windmill [1994-07-14]

Row17

Thaxted Windmill [2008-06-26]

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John Webb's Windmill [2008-06-08]

Richard Croft

Thaxted Almshouses [2008-06-08]

Richard Croft

John Webb's Windmill [2008-06-08]

Richard Croft

Another view of the photogenic windmill at Thaxted [2004-10-18]

Andy Stephenson

Sunset at John Webb's Windmill, Thaxted [2007-10-29]

Gareth Hughes

Thaxted Windmill [2002-03-00]

Stephen Nunney

Thaxted Windmill and Church [2006-04-17]

Stephen McKay

Thaxted Windmill [2004-10-18] - HD

Andy Stephenson

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

Listed Building, Grade II*: Thaxted Windmill (listed 1952-02-07)

Associated charity #272801 - Thaxted Windmill (Removed: 2023-11-29)

Associated charity #1199545 - Thaxted Windmill Trust CIO

Heritage Lottery Fund - £196000 : 12 Jun 2003 : Thaxted Windmill

Thaxted, the Windmill and Church c1950, Essex
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection

Essex Countryside references

Jan 72: p29,31 article "Thaxted windmill to be restored" by Geoffrey Tyrell, describing the work to clean and restore the mill, with a number of photos
Aug 73: Front cover aerial view of Thaxted, showing tower mill (cover has been printed mirror imaged)
Sept 79: p60 article "Thaxted windmill restored and in full sail" by Ken Adams

Official website: Thaxted
Postcard image at Archive Images: Thaxted windmill
Photography guide at Photographers Resource: Thaxted windmill (Pages dated 2008, so information may be out of date.)
BBC news item: Historic windmill set to reopen thanks to grants (Thaxted) 2025
Wisdom Art Print: Thaxted Windmill, Essex
Mirror Group Newspapers: Thaxted
Mirror Group Newspapers: Thaxted
Heritage Lottery Fund: Thaxted Windmill - Conserved for its Community, £1412438 (8/6/2022)
Britain Express article: Thaxted Windmill
Essex Record Office: Almshouses, Thaxted. Shows windmill in background
Essex Record Office: Windmill and Church, Thaxted. Photograph taken by Fyfield Seymour, 16 Violet Road, Boundary Road, London E 17
Essex Record Office: Almshouses and windmill, Thaxted
Essex Record Office: Ruins of an old Tower Mill at Thaxted
Essex Record Office: General view of Thaxted, showing church from south east and tower mill
Spotlight on mills: Thaxted
Wikimedia Commons John_Webb%27s_Mill_Thaxted_Essex_England_4.jpg
Wikimedia Commons John_Webb%27s_Mill_Thaxted_Essex_England_3.jpg
Wikimedia Commons John_Webb%27s_Mill_Thaxted_Essex_England_2.jpg
Wikimedia Commons John_Webbs_Mill_Thaxted_Essex_England_1.jpg

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Details from the English Windmills Photographic Register by Guy Blythman

tower mill

Photos: (1) Farries 5 (a) w/o, probably early 1900s

News item: Progress in the restoration of Thaxted windmill (3/2/2026)

News item: Windmill photos by Alan Derwent Caston (18/3/10)

News item: April 2007 edition of Mill News (23/4/07)

News item: Camera Phone Photographer of the Year (30/5/06)

News item: Thaxted windmill officially reopened by Lord Petre (14/4/05)

News item: Thaxted windmill back in action once again (4/1/05)

News item: Work progressing on Thaxted windmill (25/4/04)

News item: Vandalism at Heage and Thaxted windmills (13/10/03)

News item: Mills in April magazines (11/3/03)

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31 images courtesy of Tripadvisor.

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View over the balcony at Thaxted Windmill, showing a shadow of the windmill falling on the field below

Thaxted Windmill, Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1952 - Photograph (Negative)

View over the balcony at Thaxted Windmill, showing a track leading away from the windmill across the landscape

Thaxted Windmill, Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1949 - Photograph (Negative)

View over the balcony at Thaxted Windmill, looking towards Thaxted Church and the village

Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1949 - Photograph (Negative)

View over the balcony at Thaxted Windmill, looking towards Thaxted Church and the village, showing a wheel at the top of the windmill with Y-shaped forks probably for operating the striking gear

Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1949 - Photograph (Negative)

WINDMILL

Windmill, Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

16 Apr 2003 - Photograph (Digital)

From the Images of England project

Looking south along the path between the almshouses and The Chantry towards Thaxted Windmill

Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1949 - Photograph (Negative)

Looking south from Thaxted churchyard along the path between the almshouses and The Chantry towards Thaxted Windmill

Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1949 - Photograph (Negative)

Looking south from Thaxted churchyard along the path between the almshouses and The Chantry towards Thaxted Windmill

Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1949 - Photograph (Negative)

Looking south from Thaxted churchyard along the path between the almshouses and The Chantry towards Thaxted Windmill

Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1949 - Photograph (Negative)

Looking south from Thaxted churchyard along the path between the almshouses and The Chantry towards Thaxted Windmill

Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1949 - Photograph (Negative)

Looking south from Thaxted churchyard along the path between the almshouses and The Chantry towards Thaxted Windmill

Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1948 - 1949 - Photograph (Negative)

Morris dancers performing in front of a crowd of onlookers in front of the parish church in Watling Street, Thaxted with the almshouses and windmill visible in the distance

Bull Ring, Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1947 - 1955 - Photograph (Negative)

Morris dancers performing in front of a crowd of onlookers in front of the parish church in Watling Street, Thaxted with the almshouses and windmill visible in the distance

Bull Ring, Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1947 - 1955 - Photograph (Negative)

Morris dancers performing in front of a crowd of onlookers in front of the parish church in Watling Street, Thaxted with the almshouses and windmill visible in the distance

Bull Ring, Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1947 - 1955 - Photograph (Negative)

Morris dancers performing in front of a crowd of onlookers in front of the parish church in Watling Street, Thaxted with the almshouses and windmill visible in the distance

Bull Ring, Thaxted, Uttlesford, Essex

1947 - 1955 - Photograph (Negative)

International Mill Database Entry
name	John Webb's Windmill aka Lowe's Mill
id	48993
description	A brick tower mill built by John Webb in 1804, with three pairs of millstones; the mill was repaired and restored several times, including in the 1970s, in 1984, in 1998 and lastly in 2025-2026
drive power recent	windmill
drive type recent	sails
mill type	tower mill
special construction	reefing stage
function type	grain mill
condition type	functional
map location	51.95255,0.340925
country	United Kingdom
state	England
county	Essex
city	Thaxted
zip	CM6 2PG
street	Mill Row
logo detail	windmill_work
sails	shuttered
picture	137469
photographer name	Willem van Bergen
Website link	Wikipedia
construction year	1804
shutdown	1910
floors count	1
picture name	GB-ThaxtedEssexJohnWebbsMill_01_ID48993_WillemVanBergen_1975.JPG
picture url	https://milldatabase.org/image/137469/download

Thaxted windmill, Essex 🌍

Thaxted #2404

Opening times - WARNING : may not be up to date

Muggeridge Collection photos

Essex Countryside references