Geograph photo archive 🌍

The Geograph Britain and Ireland project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland. As such, since windmills are a distincive landmark wherever they occur, it's currently the best archive of accurately geolocated current photos of of UK windmills (and it's not a bad resource for photos of watermills either!)

As a few examples:

The most recent submissions for "windmill" are:

Geograph images are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence.

There are also other associated Geograph sites for

News item: Kilvey Hill windmill (12/6/11)

News item: BBC Domesday Reloaded (24/5/11)

News item: More Geograph blogging of mill trips by Ashley Dace (17/5/11)

News item: Another Geograph mill recoding trip (2/2/11)

News item: Geograph Blog entry: Two Mills and Local Churches (7/1/11)

News item: New windmill based on Chesterton (9/9/10)

News item: Geograph for the Channel Islands (14/8/10)

News item: The "lost" windmill of Forthampton (23/1/10)

News item: Geograph photo archive now accepting larger images (14/1/10)

News item: Sails for Impington mill hauled into place (10/9/07)

News item: Wicken windmills on Mills Weekend (13/5/07)

News item: Maintenance work at Windmill Hill, Swindon (3/1/07)

News item: Rebuilding the Snaefell Wheel, Laxey (31/8/05)

News item: Geograph website has a good number of wind and watermill images (10/8/05)

Last updated 16/09/2025