List of windmills in Kent

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A list of all windmills in Kent, including those parts of the county absorbed into London in 1889 and 1965.


Contents

[edit] Windmills

Location Name of mill Type Maps First mention
or built
Last mention
or demise
Acrise Elham Mill,
Elham Down Mill
Post 1596
1610
1736
1769
1819
1858
1596 Blown down 1878
Acrise Elham Mill smock 1903 1878 Demolished 6 July 1919
Acrise Acrise Mill Post 1769 1769 1769
Adisham Bekesbourne Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Burnt down 29 August 1933
Aldington Aldington Mill Smock 1903 1878 Demolished 1910
Appledore Horne Place Mill Post 1596
1736
1596 1736
Appledore Court Lodge Mill Post 1596 1596 Last tenant died end of eighteenth century.
Appledore Great Mill,
Union Mill
Smock 1819
1903
1791 Demolished 1909
Appledore Post 1819
1903
1819 Demolished 1900[1]
Ash Mount Ephraim Mill Post 1769
1819
1903
1735 Blown down 28 October 1955
Ash (formed a pair with Mount Ephraim Mill) Post Demolished before 1879
Ash (Sandwich) Ash Mill Post 1736 1736 1736
Ashford Regent's Place Mill Smock 1870 Moved to Badlesmere, 1872
Badlesmere Boundgate Mill Smock 1903 1872 Demolished 1938[1]
Badlesmere Lees Post 1695
1736
1695 1736
Bapchild Bapchild Mill 1819 1819 Demolished by 1865
Barfreston Barfeston Mill 1769
1819
1769 1843
Barfreston Barfreston Mill Smock 1769
1819
1858
1769 Thought to have been standing c.1852
Barham Barham Downs Mill Post 1596
1695
1736
1819
1596 1819
Barham Black Mill,
Barham Downs Mill
Smock 1858
1903
1834 Burnt down 3 March 1970
Barham 1819 1819 1819
Barham Breach Downs Mill Smock 1858 1858 Demolished c.1900
Barham Smock 1869 Moved to Margate 1869
Barming Barming Heath Mill 1805 Burnt down 1805
Barming Barming Heath Mill 1829 1810 Standing 1846, demolished by 1853.
Bearsted Smock 1819 1819 Demolished by 1873
Benenden Beacon Mill (south) 1819 1819 Demolished by 1850
Benenden Beacon Mill (north) Smock 1819
1821
1858
1819
Benenden East End Mill Post 1870 Demolished c.1870
Bethersden Old Mill Post 1596
1610,
1555 Moved to Biddenden (Paul Sharpe's Mill) by 1736
Bethersden Old Mill 1736
1769
1736 1769
Bethersden White Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Demolished 1937[1]
Bethersden Little Mill (1st site) Smock Moved to 2nd site.
Bethersden Little Mill (2nd site) Smock Demolished c.1896
Bethersden Black Mill Smock 1903 1886 Demolished by 1933
Betteshanger 1596 1596 1596
Bexley Heath May Place Mill Post 1769
1819
1769 Demolished c.1867
Bicknor Post 1769 1769 1769
Bidborough Bidborough Mill 1769
1819
1769 1819
Bidborough Bidborough Mill Tower 1903 1858
Biddenden Beacon Hill Mill,
Paul Sharpe's Mill
Post 1736
1769
1819
1903
1736 Demolished 1912
Biddenden Three Chimneys Mill,
Cherry Clack Mill
Smock 1859[2] Moved to Punnetts Town, Sussex, 1859[2]
Biddenden Town Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Collapsed 1946[3]
Birchington Post 1596
1695
1719
1596 1719
Birchington Dentdelion Mill 1610
1695
1610 1695
Birchington Quex Park Mill, Birchington Mill 1736
1769
1819
1736 Possibly moved to Birchington (Hudson's Mill)
Birchington Grove End Mill 1769 1769 1769
Birchington Seed Mill 1819 1819 1819
Birchington Hudson's Mill Smock 1819
1858
1819 Demolished c.1900
Blackheath Lewisham Hill Mill 1695
1745
1695 1745
Blackheath Morden Hill Mill 1745 1745 1750
Blackheath Black Heath Post 1769 1769 1815
Blackheath Black Heath Post 1769
1819
1769 1819
Blean Glover's Old Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Demolished early 20th century
Blean Glover's New Mill Smock 1903 1868 Demolished 1924
Bluebell Hill Bluebell Hill Mill Smock 1833 1833 Blown down July 1890
Bobbing Goord's Mill Smock 1819
1858
1819 Demolished 1902
Boughton Monchelsea Haste Hill Mill Smock 1819 1819 Burnt Down 1858
Boughton under Blean Black 1819 1819 Standing c.1850
Boughton under Blean 1819 1819 Demolished before c.1850
Boughton under Blean Miles' Mill Smock 1819
1903
c.1793 Demolished 1942[1]
Boughton under Blean Richardson's Mill Smock 1769
1819
1903
1769 Demolished during World War Two[1]
Boxley The Pilgrim's Way Mill 1819 1819 1819
Boxley Boxley Mill 1865 Standing 1876, demolished by 1880
Brabourne Brabourne Lees Mill smock 1819 1819 Burnt down 1871
Bredgar Dean's Hill Mill Smock 1769
1819
1858
1903
1769 Demolished c.1909
Bredhurst Naylor's Mill Smock 1903 1845 Demolished c.1914
Brenchley Pixett Hill Mill Post 1769
1819
1769 1860[4]
Brenzett Brenzett Corner Mill Post 1596
1610
1596 1610
Brenzett Brenzett Corner Mill Post 1819
1903
1776 Demolished 5 February 1925
Bridge Post 1596
1719
1829
1596 1829
Bridge Smock 1819
1903
1819 Demolished 1955[1]
Broadstairs St Peter's Mill 1695
1736
1819
1695 1819
Broadstairs 1596
1610
1719,
1736
1769
1819
1596 1819
Broadstairs Bradstowe Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Demolished c.1908
Bromley Post 1769
1819
c.1600 Demolished c.1840
Brook Spelder's Hill Mill Smock 1858
1903
c.1810 Demolished c.1912
Canterbury St Martin's Mill Tower 1819
1903
1817
Canterbury St Martin's Black Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished 1868
Canterbury St Lawrence Mill Smock 1819 1819 Burnt down 15 May 1873
Canterbury Dane John Mill Post 1731 1839[4]
Canterbury Franciscan Gardens Mill Smock 1846 1846
Canterbury St Thomas Hill Mill 1816 1856
Challock Challock Lees Mill Smock 1769
1819
1858
1903
1769 Blown down February 1906
Challock Challock Lees 1819 1819 1819, Burnt down unknown date
Charing Charing Mill,
Field Mill
Smock 1819
1821
1903
1819
Charing Charing Heath Mill Smock 1858 1858 1858
Charlton 1660 Burnt down, 1660
Great Chart Saw mill Smock 1903 1888 Demolished 1928
Chartham Hatch Green Mill 1819 1819 1819
Chatham Upberry Mill,
Gilbert's Mill,
Lower Chatham Hill Mill
Smock 1596
1695
1736
1769
1819
1596 Demolished 1897
Chatham Star Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Demolished 1925
Chatham Cherry Tree Hall Mill Smock 1819 1819 Blown down c.1875
Chatham Chalk Pit Hill Mill, 1819 1819 Burnt down 1836
Chatham Chalk Pit Hill Mill,
Field's Mill
Smock 1837 Demolished 1887
Chatham Chalk Pit Hill Mill (2nd mill) 1819 1819 1819
Chatham New Road Mill,
Feather Mill
Smock pre
1851[5]
Demolished c.1890
Chatham Ordnance Place Mill,
Belsey's Mill
Smock 1845 Demolished c.1900
Chatham Ordnance Place Mill,
Willis's Mill
Smock 1839 Demolished c.1875
Chatham Luton Mill,
Mainwaring's Mill
Smock 1858 1848 Burnt down 1887
Chelsfield Well Hill Mill 1769 1769 1769
Chevening Chevening Mill
Chilham Chilham Windmill 1858 1858 1858
Chillenden Chillenden Mill Post 1695
1736
1769
1819
1695 Blown Down 1868
Chillenden Chillenden Mill Post 1903 1868
Chislehurst Chislehurst Common Mill Smock 1819 1796 Demolished c.1877
Chislet Chislet Mill Smock 1819
1903
1765 Burnt down 15 October 2005[6]
Cliffe Dance's Mill Smock 1769
1819
1769 Burnt down c.1885
Cliftonville Gougher's Mill (east) Smock 1819 1819 Demolished November 1875
Cliftonville Gougher's Mill (middle) Smock
Cliftonville Gougher's Mill (west) smock 1819 1819 Demolished November 1875
Cobham Cobham Hall Mill Post 1596
1610
1596 1610
Cobham Darnley's Mill Smock 1903 1852[4] Burnt down 1903
Cowden Polefields Mill
Cranbrook Windmill Hill Mill Smock 1736
1769
1736 Moved to Sissinghurst (Crampton's Mill) c.1814,
Cranbrook Satin's Hill Mill 1769 1769 1769
Cranbrook Cranbrook Common Mill Smock 1858 1858 Demolished 9 August 1902
Cranbrook Union Mill Smock 1819
1858
1903
1814
Cudham Biggin Hill Mill,
Pimlico Mill
Post 1829 1826 Demolished 1885[4]
Dartford The Brent Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1901
Deal Upper Deal Mill Post 1596
1769
1819
1596 1840
Deal Upper Deal Mill Smock 1903 1855 Demolished March 1929
Deal Wellington Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1890
Deal Lower Deal Mill Smock 1736
1769
1819
1736 Demolished c.1870
Deal North End Mill,
Great Mill
Smock 1819 1767 Burnt down c.1896
Deal Sandown Castle Mill 1829 1829 1829
Deal Sandown Mill Post 1695 1695 1695
Deal Sandown Mill Smock 1819 1819 1819
Deal Walmer Road Mill Smock 1819 1849 Demolished late 1850s
Denton Denton 1736
1769
1736 1769
Deptford Black Horse Fields Mill Smock 1819 1819 Burnt down 1854
Deptford Windmill Lane Mill 1819
1832
1819 1832
Deptford Tanners Hill Mill Post 1849 Demolished 1849
Detling Detling Mill Smock 1864[4] 1866, demolished by February 1868
Doddington Elvey's Mill,
Jarvis's Mill
Smock 1903 c.1820 Demolished 1937[7]
Dover Dover Castle, Mill Tower
Dover Buckland Brewery Smock 1798[8] 1890s[8]
Downe Gorringes Farm Mill Tower 1819 1819 Burnt down 1902
Dymchurch Dymchurch Mill Smock 1829
1903
1829 Demolished c.1905
Eastchurch Eastchurch Mill Post 1596
1610
1596 1610
East Farleigh East Farleigh Mill Smock 1819 1819 Burnt down, c.1830s
East Langdon Martin Mill Smock 1769
1819
1903
1769 Demolished c.1954[1]
Eastling Eastling Mill Smock 1858
1903
1858 Demolished c.1912
Eastry Post 1596
1695
1736
1596 1839[4]
Eastry Lower Mill Smock 1769
1819
1903
1743 Demolished 1926
Eastry Upper Mill Smock 1769
1819
1903
1770
Eastry Smock 1819 1819 1833, burnt down unknown date
Eastry 1819 1819 1819
Eastry Eastry Mill 1736 1736 1736
Edenbridge Edenbridge Mill Tower 1858
1903
1812
Egerton (near church) Smock 1818 Moved to Stone Hill, 1818
Egerton Stone Hill Mill Smock 1903 1818 Blown down 2 December 1919
Elham Elham Mill Post 1769 1769 1769
Elham Bladblean Mill 1769 1769 1769
Elham Cullen's Hill Mill Smock 1903 c.1820 Demolished 1925
Elmley 1695 1695 1695
Elmsted Itinge Mill 1736
1769
1819
1736 1819
Elmsted Itinge Mill,
Folly Town Mill
Post c.1865 Demolished c.1875
Elmsted Stone Street Mill,
The George Seed Mill (west)
Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1868
Elmsted Stone Street Mill,
The George Seed Mill (east)
Smock 1769
1819
1769 Demolished c.1876
Elmsted Bodsham Green Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1895
Eltham Mottingham Mill 1819 1819 1819
Erith Northumberland Heath Mill Post 1819 1819 Blown down 1 January c.1892
Eythorne Upper Eythorne Mill 1769 1769 1769
Farningham Smock 1819 1819 Moved to West Kingsdown 1880
Faversham Forbes Road Mill,
Gravel Pit Mill
Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1910
Faversham Hangman's Lane Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1855
Faversham Copton Mill Tower 1858
1903
1863[1]
Fawkham Fawkham Mill 1719 1719 1719
Folkestone Cheriton Mill,
Ashley Mill
Smock 1903 1877 Demolished 1919
Folkestone Cheriton Mill 1819 1819 1869, later burnt down
Folkestone Cheriton Mill Smock Moved to Lympne
Folkestone Folkestone Mill 1769
1819
1769 1819
Folkestone (on coast) Post 1769 1769 1769
Folkestone Dawson's Mill Smock 1819 1819 Moved to Bethersden (Black Mill) in 1885
Frindsbury Quarry Mill Post 1596
1610
1736
1769
1596 Burnt down c.1850
Frindsbury Prospect Hill Mill,
Little Mill,
Manwaring's Mill
Smock 1769
1819
1769 Demolished c.1886
Frindsbury Prospect Hill Mill,
Great Mill,
Rose's Mill
Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1890
Frindsbury Kimmins' Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1865
Frindsbury Frindsbury Mill,
House Mill
Smock 18189
1903
1819 Demolished 1931
Frinsted Frinsted Mill 1736 1736 1736
Frittenden Maplehurst Windmill Demolished by 1836
Frittenden Sinkhurst Green Mill Post 1829
1903
1829 Demolished early 1950s[1]
Gillingham Stedman's Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1888
Gillingham Stedman's Mill Smock 1839 Burnt down 28 June 1892
Gillingham Charter Street mill
Huggins' Mill
Burnt down
Gillingham Mulberry Tree Place Mill 1819 1819 1819
Gillingham Friday's Mill Smock 1858 1839 Demolished c.1896
Goodnestone Post 1736 1736 1736
Goudhurst Kilndown Mill[9] Post[10] 1770[9] Moved to Nutley, Sussex c.1817[10]
Goudhurst Town Mill Smock 1819 c.1803 Demolished c.1890
Gravesend Windmill Hill Mill Post 1596 1596 Burnt down 1763
Gravesend Windmill Hill Mill (south) Post 1769 1769 Caught fire and remains demolished 1787
Gravesend Windmill Hill Mill (south) Post 1819 c.1787 Burnt down 17 May 1900
Gravesend Windmill Hill Mill (north) Post 1769
1819
1769 1819
Gravesend Denton Mill
Sulphur Mill
1819 1812 c.1872
Greenwich Greenwich Reach Mill Post
Great Mongeham Mongeham Mill 1596
1695
1736
1596 1736
Greenwich Greenwich Reach Mill Smock
Guilton Guilton Mill Smock 1903 1903 Demolished October 1923
Guilton Post 1769
1819
1769 Standing in 1854
Guilton Smock 1819 1819 Standing in 1854
Guilton Good Intent Mill Smock 1903 1854 Demolished c.1918
Guston Swingate Mill Tower 1903 1849
Harbledown The Old Black Mill Smock 1819
1858
1903
1780 Demolished 9 July 1913
Hartley 1719 1719 1719
Hartlip Friday's Mill Smock 1596
1736
1769
1819
1858
1596 burnt down June 1887
Hastingleigh Staple Lees Mill
Brown Town Mill
Post 1736 1736 1736
Hawkhurst Old Conghurst 1719 1719 1719
Hawkhurst Hawkhurst Horn Post 1736
1769
1736 1769, Moved to High Street
Hawkhurst Pipsden Post 1736
1819
1736 Standin 1874
Hawkhurst High Street Post 1819 1819 1819
Hawkhurst Gun Green Mill Post 1819 1819 1819,
Hawkhurst Gun Green Mill Smock c.1870 Moved to Four Throws c.1870
Hawkhurst Four Throws Mill
Nightingale's Mill
Smock c.1870 Demolished 1926
Hawkinge The Old Mill Smock 1819 1819 Collapsed 1962[1]
Hawkinge Drellingore Mill Smock 1810 Moved to Ringwould (Ripple Mill c.1810)
Headcorn Black Mill
Crows's Foot Mill
Smock 1769
1819
1903
1769 Demolished c.1910
Headcorn White Mill Smock 1903 1819 Demolished 1952[1]
Herne Beacon Hill Mill Post 1596
1610
1695
1736
1769
1589[4] 1769
Herne Herne Windmill Smock 1819
1903
1781
Herne Bay The Bay Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished 1878
Higham Rose's Mill Smock 1819
1903
1760 Demolished April 1921
High Halden High Halden Mill Post 1736
1769
1819
1903
1736 Standing in 1918, demolished by 1933
Hildenborough Watt's Cross mill Smock 1819
1903
1812 Demolished 1961[1]
Hoath Fuller's Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Collapsed July 18, 1919
Hoo Hoo Common Mill Post 1769
Hoo Hoo Common Mill
Ballard's Mill
Smock 1819
1903
1799[4] Standing in 1905, demolished by 1933
Hythe Post 1819 1809 Moved to Ruckinge 1830s
Hythe Stade Street Smock 1829 1829 Standing in 1889
Hythe Stade Street Smock 1829 1829 Moved to Cheriton (Ashley Mill) 1877
Hythe Stade Street Smock 1829 1829 1829, demolished by 1877
Hythe Smock 1860s Demolished 1860s
Ide Hill 1819 1819 Burnt down c.1860(Finch) 1875[4]
Ide Hill Post 1858 Demolished 1882
Isle of Grain Grain 1596
1610
1596 1610
Isle of Grain All Hallows 1769 1769 1769
Isle of Grain St Peter's 1769
1819
1769 1819
Kennington Kennington Lees Mill Post 1769 1769 Demolished c,1878
Kennington Wind, Steam and Water Mill Smock 1819
1858
1903
1813 Demolished 1952[1]
Keston Keston Mill Post 1736
1769
1819
1903
1716
Keston Olive's Mill 1878 Burnt down 1885[4]
Keston Holwood Park Mill 1819 1819 1819
Kingsdown Demolished c.1850s
Kingsnorth Millbank Place Mill 1858
1903
1858 1903, demolished by 1930
Kingsnorth Smock 1903 1878 1903, demolished by 1933
Kingston, Kent Reed Mill Tower 1858
1903
1858
Kippings Cross Keys Green Mill Tower 1819
1858
1903
1819 Demolished c.1963[1]
Knockholt Tower 1845[4] Demolished c.1886
Lamberhurst Windmill Farm Gone by 1769
Lee 1819 1819 Demolished c.1850
Leeds Brogden Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished(Finch) 1883[4]
Leigh Stocks Green Mill Smock 1928 Collapsed c.1966
Lenham Town mill Smock 1819 1819 1897[4]
Lenham Town Mill Smock 1858
1903
Built c.1843 Burnt down 1904
Lenham Mill Hill Mill 1819 1819 Burnt down before 1881
Lenham Lenham Heath Mill Smock 1769
1819
1903
1760 Demolished 1925
Lower Stoke 1819 1819 1819
Lower Stoke Smock 1819
1903
1819 Standing in 1905, gone by 1933
Luddesdown Henley Downs Mill 1829 1829 Blown down 1856
Lydd 1596
1610
1769
1596 1766
Lydd Old Mill Post 1596
1910
1769
1819
1858
1596 Burnt down 26 February 1900
Lydd New Mill Smock 1858
1903
1805 Burnt down 22 September 1927
Lyminge Post 1736
1769
1819
1736 1819, blown down unknown date
Lyminge Black Mill Smock 1819 1819 Burnt down September 1891
Lyminge White Mill Smock 1903 c.1852 Demolished 1920
Lympne Smock 1829 1829 Blown down November 1891
Lynsted Claxfield, Seed Mill 1819 1819 Gone by 1850s
Lynsted Union Mill Smock 1736
1819
1736 Standing in 1870, demolished "a few years later"
Lynsted Champion's Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Standing in 1933
Maidstone Sandling Road Smock 1819 1819 Gone by 1834
Margate Humber's Mill
Chamber's Mill
1695
1719
1736
1695 1736
Margate 1695
1719
1819
1695 1819, Gone by 1847
Margate Drapers Mill
Old Mill
Smock 1858
1903
c.1847
Margate Little Draper's Mill Smock 1903 Built c.1869 Standing in 1903, gone by 1933
Margate Pumping Mill Tower 1858 1858 Standing in 1894
Margate Town Mill 1719
1858
1719 Working in 1889
Meopham Meopham Mill Smock 1903 1801
Meopham Priestwood Mill 1769
1819
1769 Demolished 1850s
Milton Chalkwell Mill Smock 1819 1819 Standing in 1878
Milton Regis Meade Mill smock 1819
1903
1819 Burnt down 1965[1]
Minster, Sheppey Pigtail Corner Mill 1596
1610
1596 1610
Minster, Sheppey Pigtail Corner Mill Smock 1695
1769
1819
1695 Burnt down 1889
Minster, Thanet Minster Mill Post 1596
1610
1695
1719
1596 1719
Minster, Thanet Minster Mill Smock 1819 1819 Standing in 1882
Minster, Thanet Minster Mill Smock 1769
1819
1769 Standing in 1875, gone by 1882
Molash Molash Mill Smock 1819 1819 Standing in 1877
Monkton Monkton Mill 1596
1610
1695
1719
1736
1769
1596 1769
Murston Murston Mill 1819 1819 1819
Newchurch Newchurch Mill Tower 1903 1810 Demolished c.1906
Newington Newington Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Standing in 1933
Newington Newington Mill Smock 1819 1819 Stading in 1884, gone by 1933
Newnham Newnham Mill Smock 1819 1819 Dismantled 1876, tower burnt 5 November 1876
New Romney Post 1596 1500 1596
New Romney New Romney Mill Smock 1769
1903
1769 1903, gone by 1933
New Romney 1769 1769 1769
Nonington Nonington Mill 1596
1695
1736
1596 1736
Nonington Nonington mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Burnt down 1965[1]
Nonington Seed Mill Smock 1903 1903 Demolished 1905
Northbourne 1596
1736
1596 1736
Northbourne Old Mill Smock 1769
1819
1903
1769 Demolished 1957[1]
Northbourne New Mill Smock 1903 1848
Northfleet The Hive 1819 1819 1819
Northfleet Stone Bridge 1819 1819 1819
Northfleet Stone Bridge 1819 1819 Standing in 1850s
Northfleet Fiveash Mill 1819 1819 Demolished c.1902
Northfleet Rosherville Tower 1819 1819 Demolished c.1916
Northwood Thanet Mill Tower 1819
1903
1819 Demolished 1961[1]
Oare Oare Windmill Tower 1819
1821
1903
1819
Old Romney Post 1596
1610
1736
1596 1736
Old Romney Post 1596
1736
1596 1736
Ospringe Water Lane Mill Smock 1903 1878 Demolished c.1915
Ospringe Union House 1819 1819 1819
Ospringe Union House Smock 1819 1819 Burnt down c.1910
Pegwell Bay 1828 Demolished c.1830
Penenden Heath Penenden Heath Mill Smock 1819 1800[4] Moved to Folkestone (Dawson's) c.1840
Petham Mill Downs Mill Post 1829 1829 Moved to Stelling Minnis (Brambleton Mill) c.1850
Petham Mark's Folly Mill
Duckpit Mill
Post 1865 Moved to Elmsted (Itinge Mill) c.1865
Petham Chequers' Mill Smock 1858 1821 Demolished 1900
Pluckley Pluckley Mill Smock 1903 1872 Burnt down 1939[1]
Plumstead Common Plumstead Common Mill Tower 1819 1819
Postling Postling Mill Post 1596
1719
1596 1719
Preston next Faversham Preston Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Demolished 1943[1]
Preston next Wingham Old Mill
Dunn's Mill
Smock 1819
1903
1778 Demolished 1959[1]
Preston next Wingham Solly's Mill 1819 1819 1819
Preston next Wingham New Mill
Solly's Mill
Smock 1852 Demolished 1926
Queenborough Queenborough Mill 1819 1819 1819, burnt down by 1860
Ramsgate St. Lawrence 1596
1719
1769
1596 1769
Ramsgate Grange Road Mill 1719
1819
1719 1819
Ramsgate Grange Road Mill Smock 1819
1858
1903
1819 Standing 1905, gone by 1930
Ramsgate Hereson Mill Smock 1858 1858 Burnt down c.1890
Richborough 1769 1769 1787
Richborough 1769 1769 1787
Ringwould Post 1695 1695 1695
Ringwould Ripple Mill Smock 1819
1903
c.1810
Rochester Star Hill Mill 1787 Demolished c.1865
Rochester Star Hill Mill
Friday's Mill
1819 1819 Burnt down 1852
Rochester Star Hill Mill
Boy's Mill
Belsey's Mill
Smock 1877 Demolished c.1890-95
Rochester Delce Mill Smock 1903 1853 Demolished after World War Two[11]
Rochester Borstal Hill Mill 1870 Demolished 1885
Rochester Church Mill
Horsnaill's Mill
Post 1769
1819
1769 Demolished c.1880
Rochester Zenith Mill
Huggin's Mill
Post 1769
1819
1769 Burnt down c.1820s
Rochester St Margaret's Mill Post 1769 1769 1769
Rodmersham Green Rodmersham Green Mill Tower 1819
1903
1835 Demolished 1969[1]
Rolvenden Rolvenden Mill Post 1596
1610
1769
1819
1903
c.1580[3]
Ruckinge Rucking Mill Post 1903 1830s Demolished c.1912
Sandgate Saw mill Smock Moved to Bethersden (Little Mill)
Sandhurst Post 1769 1769 1769, Moved to Sandhurst (Boxhurst Farm) by 1793
Sandhurst Boxhurst Farm Mill Post 1819 1793 Blown down c.1842
Sandhurst Ringle Crouch Green Mill Smock 1858
1903
1844 Demolished 1945[12]
Sandwich Northwest of town Post 1695
1736
1608 1736
Sandwich Northwest of town Post 1736
1769
1819
1736 Working in 1842
Sandwich Black Mill Smock 1819 1819 Burnt down c.1910
Sandwich White Mill Smock 1819 1760
Sandwich Millwall Mill
Town Mill
Smock 1819 1819 Standing in 1878, burnt down unknown date
Sandwich Millwall 1819 1819 1819, gone by c.1850
Sarre Sarre Windmill Smock 1819
1903
1820
Selling Shottenden Mill
Perry Wood Mill
Post 1596
1736
1769
1819
1903
1596 Demolished c.1920
Sellindge Stone Hill Mill Smock 1819
1903
1819 Demolished c.1898
Sevenoaks Tubs Hill Mill Post 1819
1858
1792 Standing in 1864, Moved to West Kingsdown date unknown
Sevenoaks Hubbard Hill Mill 1669 1669
Sevenoaks Hubbard Hill Mill 1819
1858
1819 1858
Sevenoaks Melregge
(Witley Woods)
1388 1388
Sevenoaks Weald 1862[4] 1880 Working in 1880
Sheerness Great Mill
Ride's Mill
Smock 1829 1816 Demolished 1824
Sheerness Little Mill Smock 1819 1819 Burnt down 7 February 1862
Sheerness Hundred Acre Mill
Marine Town Mill
Tower 1860 Demolished 1878
Sheldwich 1769 1769 1769
Shepherdswell, or Sibertswold Smock 1903 1857 Standing in 1910, gone by 1933
Shorne Shorne Mill Post 1596
1610
1596 1610
Shorne Shorne Mill Post 1736
1769
1819
1903
1736 Burnt down 1952[1]
Sissinghurst Crampton's Mill Smock 1819 1819 1933, demolished after World War Two[1]
Sittingbourne Smock 1819 1819 Standing in 1880, burnt down year unknown
Smarden West Mill
Town mill
Corne's Mill
Post 1769
1819
1903
1680 1933
Smarden East Mill
Black Mill
Smock 1903 c.1800 Standing in 1933, gone by 1953[1]
Snargate 1610 1610 1610
Snodland Smock 1839 Move to Gillingham (Stedman's) c.1839
Southborough Southborough Common 1819 1819 1819
Southfleet Betsham Mill Post 1829 1829 Demolished c.1873
Southfleet Troy's Island
Stanford Stanford Mill Tower 1903 1857
Stansted Stansted Mill 1736
1769
1736 1769
Staple Barnsole Mill 1903 1870s Burnt down c.1914
Staplehurst 1769 1769 1769
Staplehurst Smock 1819
1903
1819 Burnt down 22 June 1911
Stelling Minnis Brambleton 1736 1736 1736
Stelling Minnis Brambleton 1736
1769
1736 1769
Stelling Minnis Brambleton Mill Post 1903 c.1850 1881
Stelling Minnis Post 1736
1769
1736 Demolished 1866
Stelling Minnis Davison's Mill Smock 1903 1866
St Margaret's at Cliffe Mill Close Mill Post 1596
1695
1736
1596 1736
St Margarets Bay St Margaret's Bay Mill Smock 1929
St Nicholas at Wade 1719 1719 1719
Stodmarsh 1819 1819 1819
Strood Strood Hill Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished c.1860
Strood Field's Mill 1819 1819 Burnt down c.1875
Strood Killick's Mill Smock 1819 1819 Standing in 1891, gone by 1933
Sutton Valence Town Mill Smock 1819
1903
1798 Demolished 1945[3]
Swingfield Old Mill Post
Swingfield Old Mill Smock 1858 1858 Blown down 1884
Swingfield New Mill Smock 1903 1885 Burnt down August 1911
Swingfield Selstead Mill Smock 1880 Burnt down 1885
Sydenham 1819 1819 1845[4]
Tenterden Shoreham Lane Post 1599 1686
Tenterden 1858 1858 1858
Tenterden Mill Farm 1736
1769
1819
1736 1819. gone by 1851
Tenterden Goods Hill Mill Post 1819
1858
c.1807 Demolished 1896
Tenterden Ashbourne Windmill Post 1819
1858
1903
1807 Demolished December 1912
Tenterden Leigh Green Mill Smock 1819
1858
1903
1818 Burnt down 26 November 1913
Teynham Conyer Quay Smock 1850s 1850s
Throwley Parsonage Mill Smock 1736
1858
1736 1884
Throwley Clare's Forstal Mill Smock 1858
1903
1858 Demolished 1915
Tonbridge Uridge's Mill Post 1819 1819 Demolished c.1872
Tonge Tonge Mill 1819 1815 1834
Tunbridge Wells Calverley Mill Smock[13] 1769
1819
1769 Demolished c.1860, Machinery used in a windmill at Crowborough.
Tunbridge Wells Culverden Mill Post 1819 1819 Demolished c.1870
Ulcombe Ulcombe Hill Mill 1819 1769[4] Demolished c.1850s
Ulcombe Windmill Hill Mill Smock 1903 1787 Demolished 16 July 1911
Upchurch Wakeley's Mill Smock 1819
1858
1903
1819 Burnt down September 1910
Uphill Uphill Mill Smock 1903 1790 Demolished May 1931
Walmer Post 1736 1736 1736
Waltham Cloke's Mill Smock 1858
1903
1858 Blown down 11 February 1931
Waltham Dilnot's Old Mill Smock 1858
1903
c.1850 Collapsed 20 May 1910
Warehorne 1596 1596 1596
Warehorne Post 1769
1819
1769 Demolished c.1900
Westerham 1819 1819 1819
Westerham Hosey Common Mill 1596
1610
1596 1610
Westerham Hosey Common Mill 1858 1858 Burnt down c.1860
West Hougham Smock 1903 1802[1] Collapsed 1951[1]
West Kingsdown Old Mill Post 1819 1819 Burnt Down May 1909
West Kingsdown West Kingsdown Mill Smock 1903 1880
Westwell Tutt Hill Mill 1878 Burnt down c.1880
Whitfield Smock 1819
1903
1805[4] Demolished c.1916
Whitstable Borstal Hill 1736 1736 1736
Whitstable Black Mill Smock 1819
1903
1815
Whitstable Borstal Hill pumping mill 1819 1819 1819
Whitstable Feakins' Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished 1905
Whitstable Feakins' Mill Post
Willesborough Old Mill Smock 1819 1819 Demolished 1868
Willesborough New Mill Smock 1903 1869
Wingham Wingham Well Tower 1903 1878 Demolished 1964[1]
Wingham Shatterling Mill Post 1769 1769 1769
Wittersham Old Mill Post 1736
1769
1819
1858
1903
1736 Demolished 1922
Wittersham Stocks Mill Post 1819
1903
1781
Woodchurch Upper Mill Smock 1769
1819
1903
1769 Standing in 1933, gone by 1939[1]
Woodchurch Lower Mill Smock 1820
Woodnesborough 1695
1736
1695 1736
Woodnesborough Post 1736
1769
1736 Moved to Ash (Mount Ephraim) in 1818
Woolwich Co-operative Mill 1760 Burnt down 16 March 1760
Woolwich Co-operative Mill Smock 1769
1819
1760 1845
Wormshill Beddington (north) 1819 1819 1819
Wormshill Beddington (south) 1819 1819 1819
Worth Smock 1769
1819
1903
1769 Demolished c.1903
Wrotham Fry's Mill Smock[14] 1819 1800[15] Burnt down 1906[15]
Wye Wye Windmill Smock 1819
1858
1903
1819 Demolished c.1920
Yalding Rugmore Hill Mill Post 1819 1819 1870s
Yalding Downs Farm Mill Post 1870 Demolished c.1870

[edit] Notes

Unless otherwise indicated, the reference for all entries is:-

Coles Finch, William (1933). Watermills and Windmills. London: C W Daniel Company. 

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.

[edit] Maps

The maps quoted by date are:-

  • 1596 - Phil Symondson
  • 1610 - John Speed
  • 1695 - Robert Morden
  • 1719 - Dr Harris
  • 1736 - E Bowen
  • 1769 - Andrews, Dury and Herbert
  • 1819 - Ordnance Survey 1819 - 43 maps
  • 1829 - Greenwood & Co
  • 1858 - Ordnance Survey 1858 - 72 maps
  • 1903 - Ordnance Survey 1903 - 10 maps

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac West, Jenny (1973). The Windmills of Kent. London: Charles Skilton. SBN 284.98534.1. 
  2. ^ a b Brunnarius, Martin (1979). The Windmills of Sussex. Chichester: Philimore, p60-63, 158, 190. ISBN 0 85033 345 8. 
  3. ^ a b c Clark, F C (1947). Kentish Fire. Rye: Adams & Son. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Directory of Kent Mill People. The Mills Archive Trust. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
  5. ^ Appears in "Chatham, from Spur Battery", a painting by J M W Turner
  6. ^ Windmill collapses following fire. BBC News Online. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
  7. ^ No. 26 Doddington Windmill. twokentvillages.org. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
  8. ^ a b Kingsford Windmill Brewery. dover-kent.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
  9. ^ a b Nutley Windmill. Sussex Mills Group. Retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  10. ^ a b Brunnarius, Martin (1979). The Windmills of Sussex. Chichester: Philimore, p54, 189. ISBN 0 85033 345 8. 
  11. ^ A windmill among Delce's back gardens. Medway Memories. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
  12. ^ Ringle Crouch Windmill, Sandhurst, Kent. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
  13. ^ Picture showing the windmill
  14. ^ Old postcards show it to have been a smock mill
  15. ^ a b A Brief History. wrothamheath.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.