List of windmills in Buckinghamshire

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Extant windmills in Buckinghamshire.
1 Brill, 2 Cholesbury 3, Cobstone, 4 Coleshill, 5 Lacey Green, 6 New Bradwell, 7 Pitstone, 8 Quainton, 8 Caldecotte

A list of windmills in Buckinghamshire, UK.

Locations

LocationName of mill and
grid reference		TypeMapsFirst mention
or built		Last mention
or demise		Photograph
Aylesbury Walton Green17981798
AylesburyWalton Green (2nd mill)17981798
AylesburyBierton Road Mill178817881788
Beaconsfield Tower 18111968, collapsed by 1976
Bledlow Ridge Bledlow Ridge Mill Post 1798Dismantled 1933
Brill 12861286
Brill13451345
BrillBrill Windmill
Nixey's Mill
SP 652 142 		Post 17881668 Windmill World Brill windmill April 2017.jpg
BrillParson's Mill [1] 17881788Demolished 1906 [2]
Brill(3rd mill)17981798
Chalfont St Giles 178817881788
Chalfont St Peter Astingwood178817881788
Chesham Smock c. 1650Moved to Lacey Green, 1821
Cholesbury Hawridge Mill
Cholesbury Mill		 Smock [3] 1863Demolished 1884
Cholesbury Cholesbury Mill
SP 935 069 		Tower 1884 Windmill World Cholesbury windmill.jpg
Coleshill Grove's Mill
SU 948 948 		Tower 1856 Windmill World Coleshill windmill, Bucks.jpg
Cuddington Post 18th centuryDemolished 1925
Dynton 178817881788
Edlesborough 178817881788
Edlesborough SP 982 192 tower Early 19th century Windmill World
Farnham Royal 17981798
Fulmer Tower 19th century
Great Horwood Tower 1864Demolished c. 1940
Great HorwoodSingleborough Mill183018301830
Great Linford 1220 [2] 1220 [2]
Great Missenden Post 17881788Burnt down c. 1876
Grove 178817881798
Haddenham Post 178817881918 [4]
HaddenhamOld Mill Post Burnt down 14 October 1877. [5]
Haddenham Tower 1878Demolished 1930s [2]
Hartwell 17981798
Hillesden 1899 (OS Map)1959 (OS Map)
Hulcott 178817881798
Ibstone 16331633
Ibstone Cobstone Windmill
SU 769 915 		Smock 1816 Windmill World Cobstone Windmill.jpg
Ickford 178817881788
Lacey Green Lacey Green Windmill
SP 819 008 		Smock 1821 Windmill World Lacey Green Windmill May 2021.jpg
Little Missenden (Holmer Green) Tower c. 1829Collapsed 1929
Long Crendon 12971297
Long Crendon Post 17881788Demolished 1931 [2]
Long CrendonChilton Road Mill [2] Tower [2] 1864Demolished 1925 [2]
Mursley Post 17881788Burnt down c. 1895
New Bradwell New Bradwell Windmill
SP 831 411 		Tower 1805 Windmill World Bradwell Windmill - geograph.org.uk - 1591541.jpg
North Crawley 183417981834
North Crawley183417981834
North Marston SP 775 228 Smock 178817881864
Windmill World
Padbury 178817881864
Pitstone Pitstone Windmill
SP 945 157 		Post 17881627, roundhouse built 1895 Windmill World Pitstone-windmill.600px.jpg
Prestwood 19th century19th century
Princes Risborough 17981798
Quainton Banner Mill
SP 746 203 		Tower 1832 Windmill World Quainton UK 1.gif
Radnage 178817881788
Stantonbury Tower 1907 Stantonbury 1907.jpg
Stewkley Smock 18391930 [6]
Stewkley18831883
Stokenchurch Post 17881736Blown down 1935 [2]
Stoke Mandeville 178817881788
Stone 1801 [7] 1914 [8]
Swanbourne 13th century13th century
Thornborough SP 737 352 Tower 1840s Windmill World
Towersey [9] 178817881798
Turweston 179817961798
Twyford Tower 178817881798
Twyford Tower 19th century1935 [10]
Waddesdon Tower 18351930 [11]
Wendover
SP 873 082 		Tower 17881788 Windmill World
Wexham SU 995 844 Tower Windmill World
Whitchurch 17761864
Wing 17881788Demolished c. 1798
Winslow (five mills)All burnt down in 1760 [7]
Mock mill
LocationName of millTypeMapsFirst mention
or built		Last mention
or demise		Photograph
Milton Keynes Caldecotte Mill Tower 1990 Built as a pub and restaurant Caldecotte windmill.jpg

Sources

Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is Vince, John (1976). Windmills in Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns. Thames Ditton: Format Publishing. ISBN   0-905759-00-1.

Contents

Maps

Notes

Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.

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References

  1. ↑ "group of boys standing in front of Nixey's Mill; Parson's Mill in background". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Windmills of Buckinghamshire". Windmill World. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  3. ↑ "Hawridge Mill, smock mill, pulled down 1884". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  4. ↑ "Haddenham Postmill, 4 common sails derelict, 3 figures and cow 1918". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  5. ↑ "Severe Gale". The Standard. No. 16609. London. 17 October 1877. p. 6.
  6. ↑ "sketch of the windmill". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  7. 1 2 Foreman, Wilfred (1983). Oxfordshire Mills. Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN   0-85033-441-1.
  8. ↑ "drawing of the derelict windmill". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  9. ↑ In Oxfordshire since 1932
  10. ↑ Photo dated 1935 in Mills Archive
  11. ↑ "sketch of the windmill". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
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