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Surviving mills

# photo id name location maps type condition
1 no
image
#2398 Bragg's Mill Ashdon NGR: TL595426 post under restoration
2 #2393   Aythorpe Roding NGR: TL590152 post restored
3 no
image
#2451 North Mill Belchamp Otten NGR: TL798426 tower mill demolished 1958 - some timbers may still be on site
4 no
image
#2450 Cottonbury Mill Belchamp Walter NGR: TL798394 post mill conserved roundhouse with trestle
5 #2446 Church Street Bocking NGR: TL763260 post restored
6 no
image
#2445 Giffins End Mill Braintree NGR: TL752226 post mill quarter fragment of roundhouse wall with 2 piers remains embedded in garden wall
7 no
image
#2459   Bulmer NGR: TL861408 smock mill base survives
8 no
image
#2349 South Mill Clavering NGR: TL465326 tower tower used as store, no machinery
9 no
image
#2350 North Mill Clavering NGR: TL467328 tower house converted
10 no
image
#2375   Debden NGR: TL555337 tower house converted
11 #2430 Duck End Mill Finchingfield NGR: TL687330 post restored
12 #2428 Gibraltar Mill Great Bardfield NGR: TL681308 tower house converted
13 no
image
#2689 Billericay Mill Great Burstead NGR: TQ678939 post mill 4 high brick piers and 2 large timbers on high mill mound, very overgrown within woodland
14 #2410 Church End Mill Great Dunmow NGR: TL634225 tower mill house converted
15 no
image
#2405   Great Easton NGR: TL614260 post mill Minor remains of roundhouse, some brickwork visible.
16 no
image
#2290   Great Holland NGR: TM203193 smock mill derelict base
17 no
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#2414   Great Sampford NGR: TL643355 smock mill base house converted
18 no
image
#2434 Chatham Green Mill Great Waltham NGR: TL716152 post mill base converted in to 4 rooms for the adjacent Windmill Inn
19 #2453 North mill Halstead NGR: TL816309 smock base remains
20 no
image
#2371   Henham NGR: TL544275 post foundations remain
21 #2407   High Easter NGR: TL618144 post roundhouse and trestle remain, house converted
22 #2380   High Ongar NGR: TL566032 smock base house converted
23 no
image
#2422   Horndon on the Hill NGR: TQ668833 post mill piers, cross trees and roundhouse floor in front garden. Used as pergola
24 no
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#2412 Fryerning Mill Ingatestone NGR: TL640008 post conserved
25 no
image
#2417 Throw's Mill Little Dunmow NGR: TL656224 post house converted octagonal roundhouse
26 no
image
#2415   Mashbury NGR: TL645133 smock mill base of small smock mill, used as a garage
27 no
image
#2357   Matching NGR: TL505112 post roundhouse remains
28 #2677   Mountnessing NGR: TQ631980 post restored
29 no
image
#2679 Baker Street Orsett NGR: TQ633813 smock restored
30 no
image
#2682 Mill Lane Mill Orsett NGR: TQ642815 post base only
31 no
image
#2518   Ramsey NGR: TM209305 post conserved
32 no
image
#2709   Rayleigh NGR: TQ805909 tower restored tower with cap and sails, but no machinery
33 no
image
#2369 Ruse's Mill Saffron Walden NGR: TL542377
(52.01549,0.24678) (approximate location)
small smock mill part of foundation in garden of sunken mill house
34 #2359   Stansted Mountfitchet NGR: TL509248 tower restored
35 #2691   Stock NGR: TQ698989 tower restored
36 no
image
#2447   Terling NGR: TL764150 smock house converted
37 #2404 Lowe's Mill Thaxted NGR: TL609309 tower restored
38 no
image
#2512   Thorpe Le Soken NGR: TM178222 post mill house converted roundhouse
39 no
image
#2461 Messing Maypole Mill Tiptree NGR: TL893166 tower house converted
40 no
image
#2478 Old Hall Marsh Mill Tollesbury NGR: TL978130
(51.77986,0.86709) (approximate location)
smock mill Low base of small square drainage smock mill with well in middle
41 #2441 Gainsford End Mill Toppesfield NGR: TL726350 tower underwent house conversion summer 2007
42 no
image
#2525   Walton on the Naze NGR: TM252223 post mill brick piers under yacht club building
43 no
image
#2485   West Mersea NGR: TM014133 post mill Roundhouse, large, single storey, no trestle.
44 no
image
#2686   West Tilbury NGR: TQ659787 smock mill base as garden store
45 #2378   White Roding NGR: TL564131 tower conserved, no machinery
46 no
image
#2400 Lower Green Mill Wimbish NGR: TL605350 smock mill base house converted
47 no
image
#2392 Tye Green Mill Wimbish NGR: TL589353 smock mill base house converted

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location maps type condition
1 no
image
#2363 Brock's Mill Bobbingworth NGR: TL522053
(51.72489,0.20335) (approximate location)
post mill Mill house, and one millstone remain
2 no
image
#11188   Burnham on Crouch  
3 #extra10   Chelmsford small windpump  
4 no
image
#12279   Galleywood  
5 no
image
#13796   Great Clacton  
6 no
image
#2364   High Laver NGR: TL527084
(51.75261,0.21194) (approximate location)
post mill nothing but the mill mound survives
7 no
image
#14303   Kelvedon Hatch smock  
8 no
image
#2370   Little Laver NGR: TL543091
(51.75846,0.23541) (approximate location)
composite mill  
9 no
image
#2367   Moreton NGR: TL534080
(51.74883,0.22190) (approximate location)
post mill  
10 no
image
#9526 Cutmaple Mill Sible Hedingham post  
11 no
image
#2667   South Ockendon NGR: TQ604831
(51.52313,0.31176) (approximate location)
smock collapsed 1977 - now no remains
12 no
image
#10811   Southminster  
13 no
image
#2362 Toothill Mill Stanford Rivers NGR: TL515026
(51.70082,0.19204) (approximate location)
post mill  
14 no
image
#extra27   Stansted post  


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