Windmills of Kent 🌍


Surviving mills

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 #2754   Aldington Smock mill base only remains
2 #2745   Appledore Post mill base incorporated into storage building
3 #2744   Appledore Smock mill base house converted
4 #2781   Ash Smock mill Base house converted
5 no
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#2749   Badlesmere Smock mill truncated base
6 #2771   Barham Smock mill base survives
7 #2712   Benenden Smock mill house converted
8 no
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#2737   Bethersden Smock mill  
(51.13021,0.76268) (approximate location)
9 #2657   Bidborough Tower mill house converted in 2006
10 no
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#9769 Hudson's Mill Birchington smock mill  
11 #2762   Blean Smock mill base survives
12 no
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#2564   Bluebell Hill Smock mill part of base wall survives as a garden feature NGR: TQ747621
(51.33115,0.50628) (approximate location)
13 no
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#2756   Boughton Street Smock mill Single storey roofed smock base
14 #2765 St Martins Canterbury Tower mill house converted NGR: TR161578
15 #2746   Charing Smock mill house converted
16 #2770   Cheriton Smock mill extended base
(51.09260,1.14752) (approximate location)
17 #2780   Chillenden Post mill was restored, but destroyed in storm Nov 2003. Rebuilt May-Aug 2005.
18 #2772   Chislet Smock mill Destroyed by fire, 15th September 2005. A new residential mock mill built in 2011 on the same plot of land.
19 #2688   Cobham Smock mill base house converted
20 #2702 Union Mill Cranbrook Smock mill restored
21 #2783   Eastry Smock mill house converted
22 #2637   Edenbridge Tower mill house converted
23 #2729   Egerton Smock mill Up to the 1990s the base was incorporated in an isolated rectangular farm building. Now the building has been extended in several directions and unclear how much of the windmill base survives.
24 #2758   Elmsted Smock mill base remains
25 #2710   Frittenden Post mill some remains of collapsed trestle were visible in the 1980s
26 #2789   Guston Tower mill house converted
27 #2769   Herne Smock mill restored
28 #2694   Higham Smock mill base used as garage/store
29 #2656   Hildenborough Smock mill ruinous base
30 #2753   Kennington Combined mill base remains. Was colocated with water and steam mills.
31 #2747   Kingsnorth Smock mill base house converted
32 #2766   Kingston Tower mill House converted 2010-2011 - includes new cap and dummy sails, and a wind-turbine in place of the fantail. Conversion was featured on the Channel 4 TV program, Restoration Man.
33 #2684   Kippings Cross Tower mill truncated bare tower
34 #2731   Lenham Heath Smock mill base
35 #2748   Luddenham Tower mill house converted
36 no
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#2743   Lynsted Smock mill base house converted
37 #2792 Draper's Mill Margate Smock mill restored
38 #2680   Meopham Smock mill restored
39 #2755   Newchurch Tower mill truncated
40 #2788   Northbourne Smock mill house converted
41 no
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#2751   Ospringe Tower mill flat roofed tower
42 #2777   Preston next Wingham Smock mill Low base remains, millstones nearby
43 #2790   Ripple Smock mill Served many years as a TV transmitter site, but now magnificently restored as a mill again
44 #2717   Rolvenden Post mill complete
45 #2708   Sandhurst Smock mill Has been rebuilt as a house from just the base that remained, but can also supposedly generate electricity.
46 #2786 White Mill Sandwich Smock mill restored
47 #2778   Sarre Smock mill It's complicated! Was restored, but then illegally part converted to residential.
48 #2734   Sheerness Smock mill surviving base rebuilt as residential/business structure
49 #2736   Sheerness Tower mill truncated tower remains in good condition in grounds of block of flats.
50 #2690   Shorne Post mill ruinous building at expected location, but doesn't look very post mill like now, after a number of fires
51 #2705   Sissinghurst Smock mill octagonal brick foundations survive, area used for car parking NGR: TQ789376
52 no
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#2722   Smarden Post mill although the cross trees and main post survived for many years (and achieved Listed Building status as such), now only the brick piers exist on site
53 #2791   St Margarets Bay Smock mill complete, but was built as part of a residential complex from the start
54 #2763   Stanford Tower mill Under restoration. c2023 the very boxy fake cap was replaced with a more realistic one.
55 #2704   Staplehurst Smock mill ruinous remains of smock base
56 #2764   Stelling Minnis Smock mill restored
57 #2655   Stocks Green Smock mill  
(51.20816,0.22900) (approximate location)
58 #2711   Sutton Valence Smock mill house converted
59 #2759   Waltham Smock mill  
60 no
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#2760   Waltham Smock mill  
61 no
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#2779   West Hougham Smock mill collapsed 1951 - some overgrown wreckage may remain
62 #2661   West Kingsdown Smock mill restored
63 #2757 Borstal Hill Whitstable Smock mill house converted
64 #2775   Wickhambreux Post mill miniature pumping mill - very poor condition
(51.29890,1.20179) (approximate location)
65 #2752   Willesborough Smock mill restored
66 #2730 Stocks Mill Wittersham Post mill restored
67 #2742   Woodchurch Smock mill restored

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
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#2782   Ash Post mill  
(51.28244,1.27666) (approximate location)
2 no
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    Bersted
Details

Kentish Gazette, 14 January 1814

Thursday morning se'nnight, about two o'clock, the windmill, at Bersted, near Maidstone, caught five and burnt with such fury, that in less than an hour it was totally destroyed.

3 no
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#2719   Biddenden Smock mill  
(51.11322,0.64164) (approximate location)
4 no
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#2740   Doddington Smock mill demolished 1937
(51.28379,0.77189) (approximate location)
5 #2697   Frindsbury Smock mill  
(51.40336,0.49441) (approximate location)
6 no
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#2768   Herne Bay Smock mill  
(51.37238,1.12533) (approximate location)
7 no
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#2732   Iwade drainage remains recovered and rebuilt at Morse's Wind Engine Park, Repps, Norfolk
(51.38596,0.74932) (approximate location)
8 no
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#11010 Hooper's horizontal mill Margate Horizontal windmill  
(51.39081,1.38792) (approximate location)
9 no
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    Mayland post mill
Details [photo] [photo] [photo]
10 no
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    Mayland wind engine
Details [photo] [photo] [photo]
11 no
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#2727   Milton Regis Smock mill  
(51.35232,0.72714) (approximate location)
12 no
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    Monkton
Details

12th century windmill

[mention]
13 no
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#2776   Nonington Smock mill   NGR: TR269517
(51.21938,1.24783) (approximate location)
14 #2787   Northbourne Smock mill  
(51.21962,1.33522) (approximate location)
15 no
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#2793   Northwood Tower mill  
(51.35261,1.40234) (approximate location)
16 no
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#2794   Ramsgate Smock mill  
(51.32996,1.40784) (approximate location)
17 no
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    Sandwich
Details [info]
18 no
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#2724   Smarden Smock mill finished work around 1923
(51.15437,0.69119) (approximate location)
19 #2761   Whitstable Smock mill  
(51.35477,1.02900) (approximate location)


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