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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 Union Mill Appledore Smock mill base house converted
4 #2781 Guilton Mill Ash Smock mill Base house converted
5 no
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#2749 Boundgate Mill Badlesmere Smock mill truncated base
6 #2771 Black Mill Barham Smock mill base survives
7 #2712 Beacon Mill Benenden Smock mill house converted
8 no
image
#2737 White Mill 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 Glover's Mill Blean Smock mill base survives
12 no
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#2564 Bluebell Hill Mill Bluebell Hill Smock mill part of base wall survives as a garden feature
13 no
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#2756 Miles' Mill Boughton Street Smock mill Single storey roofed smock base
14 #2765 St Martins Canterbury Tower mill house converted NGR: TR161578
15 #2746 Field Mill Charing Smock mill house converted
16 #2770 Ashley Mill 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 #2688 Darnley's Mill Cobham Smock mill base house converted
19 #2702 Union Mill Cranbrook Smock mill restored
20 #2783 Upper Mill Eastry Smock mill house converted
21 #2637   Edenbridge Tower mill house converted
22 #2729 Stone Hill Mill 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.
23 #2758 Bodsham Green Mill Elmsted Smock mill base remains
24 #2710 Sinkhurst Green Mill Frittenden Post mill some remains of collapsed trestle were visible in the 1980s
25 #2789 Swingate Mill Guston Tower mill house converted
26 #2769 Herne Mill Herne Smock mill restored
27 #2694 Rose's Mill Higham Smock mill base used as garage/store
28 #2656 Watts' Cross Mill Hildenborough Smock mill ruinous base
29 #2753 Wind Kennington Combined mill base remains. Was colocated with water and steam mills.
30 #2747 Shipley Hatch Mill Kingsnorth Smock mill base house converted
31 #2766 Reed Mill 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.
32 #2684 Keys Green Mill Kippings Cross Tower mill truncated bare tower
33 #2731   Lenham Heath Smock mill base
34 #2748 Oare Mill Luddenham Tower mill house converted
35 no
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#2743 Champion's Mill Lynsted Smock mill base house converted
36 #2792 Draper's Mill Margate Smock mill restored
37 #2680   Meopham Smock mill restored
38 #2755   Newchurch Tower mill truncated
39 #2788 New Mill Northbourne Smock mill house converted
40 no
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#2751 Copton Mill Ospringe Tower mill flat roofed tower
41 #2777 Dunn's Mill Preston next Wingham Smock mill Low base remains, millstones nearby
42 #2790 Ripple Mill Ripple Smock mill Served many years as a TV transmitter site, but now magnificently restored as a mill again
43 #2717   Rolvenden Post mill complete
44 #2708 Ringle Crouch Green Mill Sandhurst Smock mill Has been rebuilt as a house from just the base that remained, but can also supposedly generate electricity.
45 #2786 White Mill Sandwich Smock mill restored
46 #2778   Sarre Smock mill It's complicated! Was restored, but then illegally part converted to residential.
47 #2734 Great Mill Sheerness Smock mill surviving base rebuilt as residential/business structure
48 #2736 Hundred Acre Mill Sheerness Tower mill truncated tower remains in good condition in grounds of block of flats.
49 #2690   Shorne Post mill ivy clad ruinous building which was constructed from the post mill, though hardly recognisable now
50 #2705 Crampton's Mill Sissinghurst Smock mill octagonal brick foundations survive, uncovered within the lawn of Mill Farm NGR: TQ789376
51 no
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#2722 Cornes Mill|Town Mill 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
52 #2791 St Margaret's Bay Mill St Margarets Bay Smock mill complete, but was built as part of a residential complex from the start
53 #2763   Stanford Tower mill Under restoration. c2023 the very boxy fake cap was replaced with a more realistic one.
54 #2704   Staplehurst Smock mill ruinous remains of smock base
55 #2764 Davison's Mill Stelling Minnis Smock mill restored
56 #2655 Leigh Mill Stocks Green Smock mill  
(51.20816,0.22900) (approximate location)
57 #2711   Sutton Valence Smock mill house converted
58 #2759 Cloke's Mill Waltham Smock mill  
59 no
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#2760 Dilnot's Mill Waltham Smock mill  
60 no
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#2779 West Hougham Mill West Hougham Smock mill collapsed 1951 - some overgrown wreckage may remain
61 #2661   West Kingsdown Smock mill restored
62 #2757 Borstal Hill Whitstable Smock mill house converted
63 #2775 Stodmarsh Mill Wickhambreux Post mill miniature pumping mill - very poor condition
(51.29890,1.20179) (approximate location)
64 #2752   Willesborough Smock mill restored
65 #2730 Stocks Mill Wittersham Post mill restored
66 #2742 White Mill Woodchurch Smock mill restored

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
image
#2782 Mount Ephraim Mill 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 Town Mill Biddenden Smock mill  
(51.11322,0.64164) (approximate location)
4 #2772 Brook Lane Mill Chislet Smock mill Destroyed by fire, 15th September 2005. A new residential mock mill built in 2011 on the same plot of land.
5 no
image
#2740 Elvey's Mill Doddington Smock mill demolished 1937
(51.28379,0.77189) (approximate location)
6 #2697 Rose's Mill Frindsbury Smock mill  
(51.40336,0.49441) (approximate location)
7 no
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#2710 Sinkhurst Green Mill Frittenden Post mill  
8 #10664 Windmill Hill mill Gravesend Post mill  
(51.43473,0.36950) (approximate location)
9 no
image
#2768 Bay Mill Herne Bay Smock mill  
(51.37238,1.12533) (approximate location)
10 no
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#2732 Windpump Iwade drainage remains recovered and rebuilt at Morse's Wind Engine Park, Repps, Norfolk
(51.38596,0.74932) (approximate location)
11 #11010 Hooper's horizontal mill Margate Horizontal windmill  
(51.39081,1.38792) (approximate location)
12 no
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    Mayland post mill
Details [photo] [photo] [photo]
13 no
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    Mayland wind engine
Details [photo] [photo] [photo]
14 no
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#2727 Meads Mill Milton Regis Smock mill  
(51.35232,0.72714) (approximate location)
15 no
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    Monkton
Details

12th century windmill

[mention]
16 no
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#2776 Corn mill Nonington Smock mill   NGR: TR269517
(51.21938,1.24783) (approximate location)
17 #2787 Old Mill Northbourne Smock mill  
(51.21962,1.33522) (approximate location)
18 no
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#2793 Thanet Mill Northwood Tower mill  
(51.35261,1.40234) (approximate location)
19 no
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#2794 Grange Road Mill Ramsgate Smock mill  
(51.32996,1.40784) (approximate location)
20 no
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    Sandwich
Details [info]
21 no
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#2724 East Mill Smarden Smock mill finished work around 1923
(51.15437,0.69119) (approximate location)
22 no
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#2715 White Mill White mill, Headcorn Smock mill  
(51.17132,0.61778) (approximate location)
23 #2761 Feakins's Mill Whitstable Smock mill  
(51.35477,1.02900) (approximate location)


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