Windmills of Sussex 🌍


Surviving mills

# photo id name location maps type condition
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#2645   Alfriston NGR: TQ517027 tower mill house converted
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#2576 Highdown Mill Angmering NGR: TQ082044 tower mill  
3 no
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#2565 South Marsh Mill Arundel NGR: TQ013064 tower mill house converted
4 no
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#1836 John Baker's Mill Barnham NGR: SU968038 tower mill conserved, but now with planning permission for house conversion
5 no
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#2699 Caldbec Mill Battle NGR: TQ747167 smock mill house converted
6 no
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#2696 Downs Mill Bexhill NGR: TQ733087 post mill although the trestle survived till around 2009, all that now survives on site is the roundhouse wall and some millstone fragments
7 no
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#2578 Hammond's Mill Billingshurst NGR: TQ092260 smock mill consolidated ruins, now providing a historic feature on a recently built housing estate
8 no
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#2604   Bolney NGR: TQ260220 post reduced scale mill
9 #2627 North Common Mill Chailey NGR: TQ387214 smock mill conserved
10 no
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#2626 South Common Chailey NGR: TQ387175 smock mill base
11 #2614 Jill Clayton NGR: TQ303134 post mill restored
12 #2615 Jack Clayton NGR: TQ304134 tower mill preserved tower
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#2616 Duncton Gate Mill Clayton NGR: TQ304135 post mill roundhouse remains
14 no
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#2566   Climping NGR: TQ015013 smock mill house converted
15 no
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#2673 Cowbeech Mill Cowbeech NGR: TQ621147 smock mill base converted to living accommodation
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#2654 New Mill Cross in Hand NGR: TQ558218 post mill unrestored, and increasing worsening condition
17 no
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#2652 Little Mill Cross in Hand NGR: TQ557218 post mill roundhouse
18 no
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#2646 Pratt's Mill Crowborough NGR: TQ517311 tower mill house converted
19 no
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#2687   Dallington NGR: TQ660193 smock mill ruins
20 no
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#1870   Earnley NGR: SZ817983 smock mill  
21 no
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#1869   East Wittering NGR: SZ797972 tower mill  
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#2796 Pashley Down Bolting House Eastbourne NGR: TV593983 A few foundations remain of the bolting house which became a horizontal windmill.
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#2650 Golden Cross Mill Golden Cross NGR: TQ537123 post mill roundhouse, house converted
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#2663 Harebeating Mill Hailsham NGR: TQ595105 post mill Roundhouse and trestle now combined into a vaguely windmill looking residential structure
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#1830 Halnaker Mill Halnaker NGR: SU920097 tower mill Visually restored but empty tiled tower. Latest restoration (2019) has bricked up all the door and window openings, so there is no longer any access to the interior.
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#2683 Windmill Hill Mill Herstmonceux NGR: TQ647122 post mill recent thorough restoration
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#2581 Durrington Mill High Salvington NGR: TQ123067 post mill restored and workable
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#extra5 Glynde windpump High Salvington
(50.84856,-0.4062)
wooden windpump restored and workable
29 no
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#2721 Kipson Bank Mill Hunston NGR: TQ858008 smock mill base, house converted
30 no
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#2725 Hogg Hill Mill Icklesham NGR: TQ887160 post mill conserved
31 #2620 Oldland mill Keymer NGR: TQ321162 post mill restored
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#2632 Town Mill Lewes NGR: TQ412100 smock mill base, house converted
33 no
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#2631   Lewes NGR: TQ404101 smock mill  
34 no
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#2629 Kingston Mill Lewes NGR: TQ402092 smock mill  
35 no
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#2628 Ashcombe Mill Lewes NGR: TQ392089 post mill historical footings survived, which were used as the basis for a complete reconstruction based on a steel framework, to provide residential accomodation, and theoretically electricity generation.
36 no
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#2651 Dicker New Mill Lower Dicker NGR: TQ551117 post mill roundhouse, house converted
37 no
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#2662 Walter's Mill Mark Cross NGR: TQ585315 tower mill house converted
38 #2658 Argos Hill Mayfield NGR: TQ570283 post mill Restored
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#2574   Nutbourne Manor NGR: TQ078189 tower mill converted
40 #2640   Nutley NGR: TQ451291 post mill restored open trestle mill
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#1872   Pagham NGR: SZ892988 tower mill  
42 no
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#2589 Jolesfield Mill Partridge Green NGR: TQ191206 smock mill Although much of the mill was "relocated" to Gatwick Manor in the 1960, the original smock base still survives
43 no
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#2611   Patcham NGR: TQ291086 tower mill house converted
44 no
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#2659   Polegate NGR: TQ581041 tower mill Conserved and regularly open to the public
45 no
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#2676 Cherry Clack Mill Punnett's Town NGR: TQ627209 smock mill  
46 no
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#2639 Glyndebourne Mill Ringmer NGR: TQ449112 post mill reerected main post, held up by concreted wooden supports
47 no
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#2625 New Mill Rottingdean NGR: TQ366025 smock mill conserved
48 no
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#2733   Rye NGR: TQ916203 smock mill dummy reconstructed on original base after fire destroyed original smock
49 no
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#1871 Medmerry Mill Selsey NGR: SZ844934 tower mill visual restoration
50 #2584 King's Mill Shipley NGR: TQ144218 smock mill previously restored, but after a dispute over the lease the friends group are no longer able to maintain it, nor open it to the public
51 no
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#1827 Weald and Downland museum Singleton NGR: SU874128 brickyard windpump moved to museum and restored then to working order, but not actively worked
52 no
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#2636 South Malling Mill South Malling, Lewes NGR: TQ422111 post mill  
53 no
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#2670 Stone Cross Mill Stone Cross NGR: TQ619043 tower mill restored to working order
54 no
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#2674 Riseden Mill Tidebrook NGR: TQ622303 post mill ruins
55 no
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#2671 Summer Hill Warbleton NGR: TQ619191 post mill base
56 no
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#2669 Chapman's Town Mill Warbleton NGR: TQ616184 smock mill base
57 no
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#2582 Rock Mill Washington NGR: TQ128137 smock mill house conversion
58 no
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#2610   West Blatchington NGR: TQ279068 smock mill conserved and open to public
59 no
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#2577 Meeten's Mill West Chiltington NGR: TQ086178 smock mill house converted
60 no
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#2728 St Leonard's Mill Winchelsea NGR: TQ901177 post mill Blew down in the Great Storm of 1987 - just 3 piers and millstones remain on site

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location maps type condition
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#extra9   Bolney smock millstones are set in the path by the church lych gate
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    Eastbourne post  
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    Findon post  
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#2706 Silverhill Mill Hastings NGR: TQ797106
(50.86602,0.55326) (approximate location)
smock mill  
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    Rye smock destroyed by fire - now rebuilt as dummy mill
6 no
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#2579 Common Mill Sullington NGR: TQ097413
(51.15947,-0.4314) (approximate location)
post mill  
7 no
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  Black Down Mill Sussex  
8 no
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#1822   West Ashling NGR: SU807074
(50.85948,-0.8535) (approximate location)
post mill  
9 no
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    Wisborough Green  


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