List of windmills

Leonardusmolen, in Limburg area, Netherlands

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Africa

South Africa

Asia

Israel

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Jerusalem Montefiore Mill
Jaffa Gate Mill
Tower 1857

Japan

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Gunma Prefecture Smock
Kamiyūbetsu Smock
Kita Smock
Sakura De Liefde Tower 1994
Shodoshima Tower The windmill is presented to Shōdo Island from Milos, Greece.

Syria

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Homs Krak des Chevaliers Tower One of the towers had a windmill (far right in picture).[1]
Quneitra Trestle Pumping mill (Photo)
Tartus Smock Photo dated 2007

Taiwan

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Dongshih Tower

Thailand

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Chiangmai Hollow post

Philippines

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Bangui,Ilocos Norte Bangui Windmills(Kangkang Windmills) Onshore 1996 First Windmills in South East Asia
Burgos,Ilocos Norte Burgos Windfarm Hilltop/Onshore 2013 Second and largest Windfarm in Philippines
Pagudpud,Ilocos Norte Caparispisan Windfarm Hilltop 2013 Third Windfarm in the Philippines

Australia


Australia

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New Zealand

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Foxton De Molen Smock 2003 De Molen

Europe

Austria

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Podersdorf am See Tower
Retz Tower
Retz (second mill) Tower

Belarus

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Minsk State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life Post Moved from Damatkanavichy
Minsk State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life Post Moved from Yanushowka
Minsk Smock
Stroczycy Post

Belgium

Bulgaria

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Nesebar Post
Nesebar Tower
Nesebar Tower
Pravda Post
Sozopol Post

Czech Republic

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Denmark

Estonia

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Finland

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Åland Islands Post
Åland Islands Post
Järvenpää Post
Konnevesi Konnevesi Museum Post
Korpoström, Korpo Hembygdsmuseum Post
Loviisa Smock
Pudasjärvi Post
Samppalinna, Turku Tower 1860
Seurasaari Seurasaari Open Air Museum Post
Sideby Post
Vaala Post
Östra Simskäla, Vårdö Post
Vuonna Smock

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Kengyel Tower
Szegvár Tower
Szentendre Tower
Szentes Dónát Tower Late 19th century
Tés Tower

Ireland

Italy

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Margherita di Savoia Titt wind engine
Marsala (two mills) Tower Pumping mills for salt works
Mozia Tower Former pumping mill for salt works, now a salt museum[2]
Trapani Tower
Orbetello Tower

Latvia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Cēsis Āraišu Windmill Tower

Lithuania

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Baltoji Tower
Darbėnai Smock
Obeliai Tower
Šeduva Velnio malūnas Tower
Šiauliai Žaliūkių malūnas Smock 1875-1880
Stačiūnai Smock
Stultiškiai Smock
Telšiai Smock

Malta

Netherlands

Virtually every small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each with a name and well-documented history.

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Bucharest Village Museum Post
Bucharest Museum of the Romanian Peasant Post
Sibiu Muzeul Tehnicii Populare de la Sibiu Post
Unknown location Post

Russia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Istra New Jerusalem Monastery Mill Smock
Kizhi Post
Kozmodemyansk Mari Ethnographic Museum Post
Suzdal Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life Smock
Suzdal Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life
(2nd mill)
Smock Rear in photo
Tobolsk (four mills) Post
Velikiy Novgorod Smock
Volgograd Post

Slovakia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Korňa Photo
Holíč Tower 1880s

Spain

Sweden

Turkey

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Ayvalık Tower House converted
Datça (four mills) Tower

Ukraine

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Pyrohiv Museum of Ukrainian Folk Architecture and Ethnography
(three mills)
Smock
Pyrohiv Museum of Ukrainian Folk Architecture and Ethnography
(five mills)
Post
Prelesne Post

United Kingdom

Channel Islands

Isle of Man

North America

Antigua

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Betty's Hope Betty's Hope Mills
(two mills)
Tower

Barbados

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
St Andrew Morgan Lewis Mill Tower Website

Canada

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Guadeloupe

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante Moulin Bezard Tower
Le Moule Moulin du Distrillerier Damoiseau Tower
Marie-Galante Tower

United States

In the United States, there are some traditional windmills, but the American usage of the word "windmill" includes some that are actually windpumps.

See List of windmills in the United States

South America

Brazil

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Arapoti Smock
Carambei Smock
Paraná Moinho Castrolando Smock
Uberlândia Smock

Uruguay

Location Name of mill
and coordinates
Type Built Notes Photograph
Colonia del Sacramento El Torreón
34°28′13″S 57°51′11″W / 34.4704°S 57.853°W
Tower Converted to restaurant.
Windmill World
Minas Molino Viejo
34°22′39″S 55°14′38″W / 34.3776°S 55.244°W
Tower Windmill World
Montevideo Mirador Rosario
34°51′12″S 56°08′24″W / 34.8533°S 56.140°W
Tower Destroyed in a storm in 1977.
Windmill World
Solymar Museo del Pan
34°22′50″S 55°57′14″W / 34.3806°S 55.954°W
Smock Windmill World
Unión, Montevideo Del Galgo
34°52′24″S 56°07′59″W / 34.8734°S 56.133°W
Tower 1900 Three mills in 1900, of which one survives as of 2011.
Windmill World

References

  1. Bennett, Richard; Elton, John (1899). History of Corn Milling, Volume 2, Watermills and Windmills. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. p. 231.
  2. http://www.italyheaven.co.uk/sicily/mozia.html

See also