Windmills of London


London is a fairly flexible term - the mills listed here are all within the current borders of the London boroughs, though a number were historically included in other counties.

Surviving mills

# photo id name location maps type condition photos
1 #2594 Barnet Gate Mill Arkley NGR: TQ217953 tower mill Well maintained external appearance, with 4 sails. Not open to the public. 3
2 #2617 Ashby's Mill Brixton NGR: TQ304744 tower mill Subject to an extensive restoration in early 2011 and now regularly open to the public. New visitor centre being constructed 2019-2020. 14
3 #2618 . Clerkenwell NGR: TQ312827 tower mill truncated tower, within the waterworks site 2
4 #2643 . Erith NGR: TQ502772 post mill part of the roundhouse wall, incorporated into a general boundary wall 0
5 #2634 . Keston NGR: TQ415641 post mill conserved, occasionally open to the public 5
6 #2612 . Mitcham Common NGR: TQ292678 Hollow-post bare trestle remains, previously deteriorating rapidly, but now stabilized 3
7 #2638 Common Mill Plumstead NGR: TQ448779 tower mill converted, providing accomodation above the Old Mill pub 4
8 #2624 . Shirley NGR: TQ355651 tower mill restored and open to the public 11
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#2583 Crane Park Mill Twickenham NGR: TQ129729 tower Used as a nature and visitor centre by the London Wildlife Trust 9
10 #2653 . Upminster NGR: TQ557868 smock mill undergoing extensive restoration 2016-2020 25
11 #2606 Common Mill Wandsworth NGR: TQ268745 smock mill small mill, for pumping - no sails remaining 4
12 #2598 . Wimbledon NGR: TQ230725 hollow post mill Much altered from its working appearance. Now a milling museum and regularly open. 38

Historical mills

# photo id name location maps type condition photos
1 no
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. . Battersea . 0
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#11433 Fowlers Mill Battersea horizontal mill . 0
3 no
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. . Blackheath . 0
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. . Bromley by Bow . 0
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. . Camberwell post . 0
6 . . Camberwell tower . 0
7 no
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#11525 . Edmonton post . 0
8 no
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#12209 . Enfield NGR: TQ318967 smock . 0
9 no
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. . Gravesend . 0
10 no
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#x2 Dalston Mill Hackney
(51.54656,-0.0741)
vertical axis mill, constructed from scaffolding poles, as an art project only temporary, dismantled after a few weeks 0
11 no
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. . Hadley . 0
12 no
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. . Hornchurch post . 0
13 no
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. . Lambeth . 0
14 no
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. . Millbank post . 0
15 no
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. . Millwall . 0
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. . Newgate Prison . 0
17 no
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#11441 Randall's Mill Nine Elms . 0
18 no
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. . Walthamstow post . 0


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