A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of East Sussex.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Alfriston | Alfriston Mill TQ 518 027 | Tower | 1834 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Arlington | Windover Mill | Post | c. 1800 | Burnt down c. 1881 | ||
Baldslow | Hayward's Mill | Post | Demolished 1855 | |||
Baldslow | The Harrow Mill | Smock | 1855 | ![]() | ||
Barcombe | Post | c. 1818 [1] | Burnt down c. 1907 [1] | |||
Battle | King's Head Mill | Post | Demolished 1805 | |||
Battle | King's Head Mill Caldbec Hill Mill TQ 748 166 | Smock | 1805 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Battle | Telham Hill Mill | Post | 1747 | Demolished 1962 [2] | ||
Battle | Watch Oak Mill Netherfield Mill | 1813 | ||||
Beckley | Old Mill | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 | ||
Beckley | New Mill | |||||
Beddingham | Old Mill | 1724 1813 | 1724 | 1813 | ||
Berwick | Post | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 | ||
Bexhill | Mount Idle Mill | |||||
Bexhill | Black Mill | |||||
Bexhill | Down Mill Hoad's Mill TQ 733 087 | Post | 1784 | Collapsed during storm 30 July 1965, demolished 31 July 1965. [3] Information and photographs | ![]() | |
Bishopstone | Tide Mills | Smock | 1860s | 1883 | ||
Bishopstone | Post | |||||
Brede | Post | 1813 | 1794 [1] | 1905 [1] | ||
Brightling | Beacon Mill | |||||
Brighton | Brighthelmstone Mill (north) [4] | Post [4] | 1545 [4] | Blown down 1703 [4] | ||
Brighton | Brighthelmstone Mill (south) [4] | Post [4] | 1545 [4] | Blown down 1703 [4] | ||
Brighton | Church Hill Mill [4] | Post [4] | 1724 | 1724 [4] | Blown down 10 May 1726 [4] | |
Brighton | Coffee Mill, East Street [4] | Post [4] | 1736 [4] | 1736 [4] | ||
Brighton | West Mill, Belle Vue Fields Regency Square Mill | Post [5] | 1744 [4] | Moved to Preston 28 March 1797 [4] | ||
Brighton | West Street Mill [4] | 1744 [4] | 1750, Possibly moved to Black Rock [4] | |||
Brighton | East Brighton, Lewes Crescent [4] | 1793 [4] | 1795, possibly moved (East End Mill) [4] | |||
Brighton | East End Mill [4] | Post [4] | 1800 [4] | 1842, moved to Sudeley Place by 1847 [4] | ||
Brighton | Black Rock Mill Roedean Mill [6] | c. 1750 [6] | c. 1790 [6] | |||
Brighton | Sudeley Place Mill East Mill [7] | Post | 1790s [8] | Moved to Windmill St (Taylor's Mill) mid1840s [8] | ||
Brighton | Vine's Mill Clifton Gardens Mill | Post | 1810 [9] | Moved to Windmill Street c. 1837 [7] | ![]() | |
Brighton | Toronto Terrace Mill Albion Hill Mill [7] Brighton Park Mill [7] Butcher's Mill [4] | Post | 1822 [7] | Moved to Falmer (Race Hill) December 1861 | ||
Brighton | Windmill Street Clifton Mill [7] | Post | c. 1837 [7] | Demolished c. 1862 [7] | ||
Brighton | Windmill Street Taylor's Mill [8] East End Mill [4] | 1847 [4] | Collapsed 24 March 1862 whilst being prepared for move to new site at Woodingdean [4] | |||
Brighton | Preston Mill Streeter's Mill Black Mill [4] Trusler's Mill [4] | Post | 1797 [10] | Demolished c. 1890 [4] | ||
Brighton | Lashmar's Old Mill Hove Mill [11] | Post | 1780 [11] | Demolished 1821 | ||
Brighton | Lashmar's New Mill | Post | 1821 | Moved to Clayton, 1852 | ||
Brighton | Port Hall Mill | Post [4] | 1826 [4] | Demolished c. 1882 [4] | ||
Brighton | Bear Mill | Post | 1813 [4] | Standing 1903 [4] | ||
Brighton | Site later occupied by Hanover Mill [4] | 1813 [4] | 1813 [4] | |||
Brighton | Hanover Mill [12] | Post [12] | 1838 [12] | Demolished c. 1887 [12] | ||
Brighton | Rose Hill Mill Roundhill Mill [12] Cutress's Mill [4] | Tower | c. 1834 [4] | Demolition commenced 13 March 1913, [4] completed by 25 April 1913 | ![]() | |
Brighton | Black Mill Hodson's Mill West Hill Mill | Smock | 1808 [4] | Demolished 25 June 1866 | ![]() | |
Burwash | Witherenden Mill | |||||
Burwash | Rockhill Mill | Post | 1839 [1] | Collapsed 1940 [1] |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Catsfield | Catsfield Mill | Post | ||||
Chailey | TQ 386 214 | Post | 1596 | Six mills in succession, on same site as Heritage mill | ||
Chailey | Heritage Mill TQ 386 214 | Smock | Windmill World | ![]() | ||
Chailey | South Common Mill | Smock TQ 387 175 | 1823 | c. 1808 | Standing 1922 Windmill World | |
Chailey | Yokehurst Mill | 1813 | 1790 | Moved to South Common c. 1808 | ||
Chiddingly | Willard's Mill, The Dicker Old Mill | |||||
Chiddingly | Black Mill, The Dicker | |||||
Chiddingly | Golden Cross Mill, The Dicker Wicken's Mill TQ 537 123 | Post | 1823 | 1823 | Demolished 1919. roundhouse house converted Windmill World | ![]() |
Chiddingly | Lower Dicker Mill Ovenden's Mill New Mill | Post | 1813 | Collapsed 28 December 1929 | ||
Cross in Hand | Waldron Down Mill TQ 652 216 | Post | 1598 | Struck by lightning and severely damaged, 1790 | ||
Cross in Hand | Old Mill Little Mill TQ 557 218 | Post | 1791 | Demolished 1903 Windmill World | | |
Cross in Hand | New Mill TQ 558 218 | Post | 1855 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Crowborough | Beacon Mill | Post | 1782 | Burnt down c. 1940 | ||
Crowborough | Pratt's Mill TQ 518 311 | Tower | 1862 | ![]() | ||
Crowhurst |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Dallington | TQ 660 193 | Smock | c. 1852 | Demolished 1913 Windmill World | ||
Ditchling | Elphick's Farm Mill | Hollow post | c. 1884 | 1904 | ||
East Blatchington | Black Mill | |||||
East Blatchington | Pumping mill | Tower | 1882 | Demolished c. 1919 | ||
Eastbourne | Parsonage Mill Black Mill Watt's Lane Mill Rectory Manor Mill [13] | Post | ||||
Eastbourne | Paradise Hill Mill | |||||
Eastbourne | White Mill | Post | ||||
Eastbourne | Rodmill Farm Mill | |||||
Eastbourne | Radmill Village Mill | Post | ||||
Eastbourne | Ocklynge Mill | Tower | Standing in 1934 [14] | |||
Eastbourne | Old Mill | Tower | 1800 | Replaced by Hurst's Mill, 1808 | ||
Eastbourne | Hurst's Mill St John's Mill | Tower | 1808 | Demolished 1950 | ||
Eastbourne | Bullock Down | Wind wheel | ||||
Eastbourne | Pashley Down | Vertical axle mill | 1752 | 1767, Demolished by 1785 | ||
Eastbourne | Pashley Down | Post | 1724 | 1724 | 1785, later burnt down | |
Eastbourne | Seafront | Vertical axle mill | 1757 | 1780s | ||
Eastbourne | Ocklynge Hill | Vertical axle mill | c. 1767 | Burnt down 1811 | ||
Eastbourne | Black Mill | Post | ![]() | |||
East Grinstead | North End Mill | 1564 [15] | Burnt down 1757 [16] | |||
East Grinstead | Common Mill | 1767 [16] | Standing 1900 [16] | |||
East Grinstead | Ashurst Wood Mill Cutten's Hill Mill [17] | Smock [18] | Demolished 1882 [19] | |||
East Grinstead | Pook Hill Mill | 1823 | 1823 [19] | 1823, gone by 1841 [19] | ||
East Hoathly | Post | Burnt down 1824 [1] | ||||
East Hoathly | Post | 1824 | Burnt down December 1891 [1] | |||
Ewhurst | Brasses' Mill | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 | ||
Ewhurst | Beacon Mill | |||||
Ewhurst | Staplecross Mill | Smock | 1815 | Demolished 1951 |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Fairlight | Old Mill | Smock | 1813 | 1813 | Burnt down [1] 1872 [20] | ![]() |
Fairlight | Batchelor's Mill | Post | ||||
Falmer | Old Mill | Smock | 1724 | 1617 [4] | 1724, later burnt down | |
Falmer | Falmer Mill [4] | Post [4] | 1801 | Moved within Falmer, 1817 [4] | ||
Falmer | Mill Street [4] | Post [4] | 1817 [4] | 1866 [4] | ||
Falmer | Race Hill Mill | Post | 1861 [7] | Blown down [14] 16 May 1913 [4] | ||
Firle | Firle Mill | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 | ||
Forest Row | Old Mill | |||||
Framfield | Mount Ephraim Mill | Post | 1841 [21] | Moved to Cross in Hand, 1855 | ||
Framfield | Blackboys Mill | Post | 1868 | Demolished 1944 | ||
Frant | Benhall Mill [22] | Post [22] | 1818 [22] | 1880s, gone by 1900 [22] | ||
Frant | ||||||
Friston | Friston Mill | Post | Blown down January 1926. [23] | ![]() |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Glynde | Post | 1807 [1] | Moved to Blackboys 1868 | |||
Glynde | Hollow Post | Mid-19th century | Moved to High Salvington 2007 | |||
Glynde | Glyndebourne Mill Ringmer Mill | Post | 1724 | 1700 [14] | Collapsed 1925 | |
Guestling | Old Mill Pickham Farm Mill | post | 1813 | |||
Guestling | Guestling mill Jenner's Mill Down Mill Fairlight Mill [1] | Smock | 1859 [1] | Demolished c. 1918 [1] | ![]() |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Hailsham | Upper Mill | Post | ||||
Hailsham | South Common Mill | Post | 1691 [24] | Standing in 1711, gone by 1735. [24] | ||
Hailsham | Lower Mill Hamlin's Mill | Smock | 1834 | Burnt down November 1923 | ||
Hailsham | Harebeating Mill Upper Mill TQ 595 105 | Post | 1823 | 1823 | Collapsed 1934. Modern house built on roundhouse. Windmill World | ![]() |
Hamsey | Post | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 | ||
Hamsey | Offham Mill Racehill Mill Steeres Mill [14] | Smock | ||||
Hankham | 1724 | 1724 | 1813 | |||
Hastings | Summerfield's Mill | |||||
Hastings | French's Mill Croft Road Mill | Smock | 1799 | Moved to Silverhill, St Leonards c. 1838 | ||
Hastings | Priory Road Mill #1 | |||||
Hastings | Priory Road Mill #2 | |||||
Hastings | Priory Road Mill #3 | |||||
Hastings | Priory Road Mill #4 | |||||
Hastings | Priory Road Mill #5 | |||||
Hastings | Town Mill | |||||
Hastings | Six sailed mill | Post | ||||
Heathfield | Sandy Cross Mill | Post | 1842 [1] | Demolished 1916 [1] | ||
Heathfield | Broad Oak Mill | Post | 1842 [1] | Burnt down 11 March 1890 [1] | ||
Heathfield | Mutton Hall Mill | Post | 1805 | Demolished 1891 | ||
Heathfield | Cade Street Mill Chapman's Town Mill | Smock | Gone by 1936 | |||
Heathfield | Punnetts Town Mill | Post | Burnt down 1856 | |||
Heathfield | Punnetts Town Mill Blackdown Mill Cherry Clack Mill TQ 627 209 | Smock | 1856 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Heathfield | Punnetts Town Saw Mill | Smock | 1862 [14] | Demolished 1934 | ||
Heathfield | Alexandra Road | Wind wheel | c. 1910 | |||
Heathfield | Punnetts Town | Wind wheel | c. 1908 | Dismantled 1916 | ||
Hellingly | Old Mill North Street Mill [1] | Post [1] | 1781 [1] | Blown down 1908 [1] | ||
Herstmonceux | Windmill Hill Mill | Post | ||||
Herstmonceux | Windmill Hill Mill TQ 648 122 | Post | c. 1814 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Herstmonceux | Bodle Street Green Mill | Post | 1780s | |||
Herstmonceux | Cowbeech Mill Erry's Mill TQ 621 147 | Smock | 1823 | 1820 | Demolished c. 1919 Windmill World | ![]() |
Hooe | Hooe Common Mill | Post | 1813 | Demolished by 1934 [14] | ||
Hooe | Hooe Common Mill | Smock | ||||
Horham | Smock | Moved to Punnetts Town 1866 |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Icklesham | Telegraph Hill Mill | Smock | 1834 [1] | Demolished c. 1922 [1] | ![]() | |
Icklesham | Village Mill | Post | ||||
Icklesham | Hogg Hill Mill TQ 888 160 | Post | 1790 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Iden | Post | |||||
Iford | Sunk Post | 1155 | 1155 | |||
Kingston | Kingston Mill Ashcombe mill TQ 392 089 | Post | 1832 | Blown down, March 1916 | ![]() | |
Kingston | Kingston Mill Ashcombe mill TQ 392 089 | Post | 2009 [25] | Facsimile of original mill, for residential and electricity generation purposes. | ![]() | |
Kingston | Old Duck Mill TQ 402 092 | Smock | 1802 | Collapsed 1891 Windmill World | ||
Laughton | Laughton Mill | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 | ||
Lewes | Town Mill | Smock | 1802 | Moved to new site, c. 1818 (Shelley's Mill). Windmill World | ![]() | |
Lewes | Shelly's Mill | Smock | c. 1818 | Demolished 1922 | ||
Lewes | Southern Mill | Post | c. 1785 | Demolished c. 1912 | ||
Lewes | Spital Mill | Post | 1770 | Burnt down May 1885 | ||
Lewes | Malling Mill | Post | 1625 | Burnt down 8 September 1908 | ||
Lewes | King Harry's Mill [13] | Post | 1264 | 1264 | ||
Lewes | Smart's Mill | |||||
Lewes | Southover Mill | Blown down 1888 [13] | ||||
Little Horsted | Old Mill |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Mark Cross | Walter's Mill TQ 585 315 | Tower | 1845 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Mayfield | Luggers Crouch Mill | 1795 [26] | 1825 [26] | |||
Mayfield | Gravil Hill Mill | 1711 [27] | 1720 [28] | |||
Mayfield | Argos Hill Mill TQ 571 283 | Post | 1835 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Newenden [29] | pumping mill | Trestle | ||||
Newhaven | Bolen's Mill | Burnt down 1844 | ||||
Newhaven | Smock | 1844 | Moved to North Chailey | |||
Newhaven | Post | |||||
Newick | Old Mill | |||||
Ninfield | Ashburnham Mill | Post | 1809 | Standing 1936, demolished by September 1937 [30] | ||
Ninfield | Lunsford's Cross Mill Thorne Mill | Smock | c. 1870 | Demolished 1907 | ![]() | |
Northiam | Old mill | Post | 1795 | 1795 | Burnt down 1800 | |
Northiam | High Park Mill Millcorner Mill | Post | 1800 | Demolished 1949 | ||
Nutley | Nutley Mill TQ 451 291 | Post | c. 1817 | Windmill World | ![]() |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Ore | White Mill Cheale's Mill | Smock | 1813 1823 | 1813 | Burnt down May 1900 | |
Ore | Black Mill Down Mill | Smock | 1855 | Demolished c. 1918 | ||
Patcham | Post | 1724 | 1620 [31] | 1791 [4] | ||
Patcham | Ballard's Mill | Smock | c. 1780 [31] | Demolished c. 1900 [4] | ||
Patcham | Waterhall Mill TQ 292 086 | Tower | 1885 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Peasemarsh | Smock | Standing 1936 | ||||
Pett | Pett Mill | Post | 1781 | Moved to Icklesham, 1790 | ||
Piddinghoe | Peddinghoe Mill | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 | ||
Playden | Black Mill | Standing c. 1915 [2] | ||||
Playden | Old Mill | Post | Moved to Appledore, Kent by 1819 | |||
Playden | Playden Mill | |||||
Playden | TQ 9233 2123 | Smock | ||||
Playden | TQ 9217 2141 | Post | Standing 1936 | |||
Polegate | Ovenden's Mill Mockett's Mill TQ 582 041 | Tower | 1817 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Portslade | East Hill Mill | Post | 1837 [14] | 1837 [14] | ||
Portslade | Copperas Gap Mill | Post | 1820 [31] | Demolished 1882 [31] | ||
Pevensey | Blackness Mill | 1778 [13] | 1779 [13] |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph | |
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Ringmer | Broyle Mill | Post | Burnt down 1905 | ||||
Ripe | Old Mill | 1724 1813 | 1724 | 1813 | |||
Rodmell | 1199 [13] | 1199 [13] | |||||
Rodmell | Old Mill | Post | 1813 | c. 1801 [1] | Demolished 12 January 1912 [1] | ![]() | |
Rottingdean | Dudeney's Hill Mill [4] | Post | 1783 1813 | 1773 [4] | 1818, possibly moved to Whitehawk Hill, Brighton [4] | ||
Rottingdean | Beacon Mill New Mill TQ 366 025 | Smock | 1802 | Windmill World | ![]() | ||
Rottingdean | Smock | ||||||
Rye | Wilkinson's Mill | ||||||
Rye | Smock | Moved to Punnetts Town 1862 [14] | |||||
Rye | Post | 1596 | 1596 | Gone by 1758 | |||
Rye | Old Mill | Post | 1758 | Replaced by smock mill 1824 | |||
Rye | New mill Gibbet Mill Tillingham Mill Barry's Mill TQ 917 203 | Smock | 1824 | Burnt down 13 June 1930 Windmill World | ![]() | ||
Salehurst | Silverhill Mill | ||||||
Seaford | Sutton Mill | Post | |||||
Sidley | Sidley Mill | 1723 [32] | Burnt down 1797 [32] | ||||
Sidley | Sidley Mill Pankhurst's Mill | Smock | 1798 | Moved to Leigh, Kent, 1928 | |||
St Leonards | Tivoli Old Mill | Post | 1813 | ||||
St Leonards | Tivoli New Mill | ||||||
St Leonards | Silverhill Mill | Smock | c. 1838 | Burnt down 1867 | |||
St Leonards | Draper's Mill Silverhill Mill | Smock | 1868 | Demolished 1966 | |||
Stone Cross | Stone Cross Mill Blackness Mill White Mill [33] TQ 620 043 | Tower | 1876 | Windmill World | ![]() | ||
Stone Cross | Black Mill | Post |
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
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Uckfield | Old Mill | |||||
Udimore | Udimore Mill | Post | Demolished 1922 | ![]() | ||
Wadhurst | Cousley Wood Mill | Standing 1885 [34] | ||||
Wadhurst | Riseden Mill TQ 622 303 | Post | 1823 | 1821 | Collapsed 1910 Windmill World | |
Wadhurst | Butcher's Wood Mill White's Mill [34] | 1866 [34] | 1894 [34] | |||
Wadhurst | Bestbeech Hill Mill Standen's Mill [34] | 1795 | 1795 | Standing 1801, possibly moved to Riseden by 1821 [35] | ||
Warbleton | Summer Hill Mill | Post | c. 1825 | Demolished August 1936 | ||
Warbleton | Chapman's Mill | Smock | 1838 | Struck by lightning 16 July 1880 | ||
Wartling | Wartling Mill | |||||
Wartling | Boreham Street Mill | Post | 1813 | |||
West Blatchington | West Blatchington Mill TQ 279 068 | Smock | 1823 | 1823 | Windmill World | ![]() |
Westfield | Church Mill | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 | ||
Westfield | White Mill | |||||
Westfield | North Mill | One of the Westfield mills burnt down 5 November 1908 [36] | ||||
Westham | Westham Mill | |||||
Westham | Hollow Post | 1860 | Moved to Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, 1975 | |||
Whatlington | Whatlington Mill Old Mill | 1849 [20] | 1849 [20] | |||
Willingdon | Old Mill | 1813 | ||||
Winchelsea | 1297 [13] | 1297 [13] | ||||
Winchelsea | Iham Mill | Post | 1813 | 1760 | 1813, moved to new site by 1823 | |
Winchelsea | St Leonard's Mill TQ 902 176 | Post | c. 1823 | Blown down 16 October 1987 | ![]() |
For windmills in Lamberhurst see List of windmills in Kent .
Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is Brunnarius, Martin (1979). The Windmills of Sussex. Chichester: Philimore. ISBN 0-85033-345-8. or Hemming, Peter (1936). Windmills in Sussex. London: C W Daniel. Online version