Windmills of Bedfordshire 🌍


Surviving mills

# photo id name location maps type condition
1 no
image
#2259   Dunstable NGR: TL014218 tower used as Sea Cadets headquarters
2 #2262   Houghton Conquest NGR: TL047423 tower derelict
3 no
image
#1714   Hulcote NGR: SP948382 tower truncated, house converted
4 no
image
#2261   Lower Dean NGR: TL041698 composite collapsed 1959, and roundhouse reduced to 1 storey around 1969, now ruinous
5 no
image
#2292   Potton NGR: TL213498 tower derelict
6 #1723   Sharnbrook NGR: SP998593 tower converted to observation tower
7 no
image
#2278   Shefford NGR: TL149395 tower maintained tower, now with a mobile phone mast alongside
8 no
image
#1717   Stanbridge NGR: SP962245 tower house converted
9 #2480   Stevington NGR: SP992528 post restored
10 #2263   Thurleigh NGR: TL047582 tower house converted c.2001
11 no
image
#1722 Doolittle Totternhoe NGR: SP990202 tower Windmill which also utilized water power. Undergoing restoration.
12 no
image
#2260   Upper Dean NGR: TL041682 tower conserved
13 no
image
#1712   Woburn NGR: SP941329 smock base remains, house converted

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location maps type condition
1 no
image
#11544   Apsley Guise  
2 no
image
#11545   Apsley Guise  
3 no
image
#2287   Biggleswade NGR: TL188441
(52.08170,-0.2664) (approximate location)
tower mill commemorated in nearby plaque
4 no
image
#2271   Bolnhurst NGR: TL094602
(52.22836,-0.3983) (approximate location)
post mill  
5 no
image
#1716   Cranfield NGR: SP960429
(52.07533,-0.5994) (approximate location)
tower  
6 no
image
#1720   Eaton Bray NGR: SP986196
(51.86540,-0.5681) (approximate location)
post mill  
7 no
image
#11542   Flitwick  
8 no
image
#2284   Henlow NGR: TL175389
(52.03524,-0.2872) (approximate location)
smock mill  
9 no
image
#2258   Houghton Regis NGR: TL012238
(51.90270,-0.5292) (approximate location)
tower Stood truncated and derelict for many years, but finally demolished a few years prior to 2000 when land around was turned into a new housing estate.
10 no
image
#13504   Husborne Crawley  
11 no
image
#2269 Biscot Mill Luton NGR: TL079231
(51.89515,-0.4320) (approximate location)
smock  
12 no
image
#2264   Riseley NGR: TL053644
(52.26692,-0.4570) (approximate location)
post  
13 no
image
#2267   Silsoe NGR: TL071356
(52.00767,-0.4398) (approximate location)
post mill  
14 no
image
#1718   Stanbridge NGR: SP965246
(51.91072,-0.5972) (approximate location)
post mill  
15 no
image
#2266   Tilbrook NGR: TL070695
(52.31243,-0.4305) (approximate location)
post mill  
16 no
image
#1721   Totternhoe NGR: SP987205
(51.87348,-0.5664) (approximate location)
post mill  


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