Windmills of Kent
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Surviving Windmills in Kent

Aldington
Smock mill : #2754
base only remains
1986 - Copyright © Rob Cumming
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Appledore
Post mill : #2745
base incorporated into storage building
1986 - Copyright © Rob Cumming
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Appledore
Smock mill : #2744
base house converted
halfpenny token - 1794
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Ash
Smock mill : #2781
Base house converted
1986 - Copyright © Rob Cumming

Badlesmere
truncated base

Barham
base survives

Benenden
house converted
26/8/07 - Copyright © Rob Cumming

Bethersden
(Approximate location)

Bidborough
Tower mill : #2657
house converted in 2006
Newly converted Bidborough windmill, and housing development - 11/3/2007 - Copyright © Rob Cumming

Birchington
Hudson's Mill - smock : #9769
Hudson's Mill

Blean
base survives

Bluebell Hill
part of base wall survives as a garden feature
(Approximate location)

Boughton Street
Single storey roofed smock base

Canterbury
St Martins - Tower mill : #2765
house converted
1/9/07 - Copyright © Rob Cumming
St Martins

Charing
house converted
8th April 2007 - Copyright © Rob Cumming

Cheriton
extended base
(Approximate location)

Chillenden
Post mill : #2780
was restored, but destroyed in storm Nov 2003. Rebuilt May-Aug 2005.
7th April 2007 - Copyright © Rob Cumming

Chislet
Destroyed by fire, 15th September 2005. A new residential mock mill built in 2011 on the same plot of land.

Cobham
base house converted

Cranbrook
Union Mill - Smock mill : #2702
restored
8th April 2007 - Copyright © Rob Cumming
Union Mill

Eastry

Edenbridge
Tower mill : #2637

Egerton
Up to the 1990s the base was incorporated in an isolated rectangular farm building. Now the building has been extended in several directions and unclear how much of the windmill base survives.

Elmsted
base remains

Frittenden
Post mill : #2710
some remains of collapsed trestle were visible in the 1980s

Guston
Tower mill : #2789

Herne
restored

Higham
base used as garage/store
August 07 - Copyright © Rob Cumming

Hildenborough
ruinous base

Kennington
Combined mill : #2753
base remains. Was colocated with water and steam mills.

Kingsnorth
base house converted

Kingston
House converted 2010-2011 - includes new cap and dummy sails, and a wind-turbine in place of the fantail. Conversion was featured on the Channel 4 TV program, Restoration Man.

Kippings Cross
truncated bare tower
26/8/07 - Copyright © Rob Cumming

Lenham Heath
base

Luddenham

Lynsted

Margate
Draper's Mill - Smock mill : #2792
restored
Draper's Mill

Meopham
August 07 - Copyright © Rob Cumming

Newchurch
truncated

Northbourne

Ospringe
flat roofed tower

Preston next Wingham
Low base remains, millstones nearby

Ripple
Served many years as a TV transmitter site, but now magnificently restored as a mill again

Rolvenden
complete

Sandhurst
Has been rebuilt as a house from just the base that remained, but can also supposedly generate electricity.

Sandwich
White Mill - Smock mill : #2786
White Mill

Sarre
It's complicated! Was restored, but then illegally part converted to residential.

Sheerness
surviving base rebuilt as residential/business structure
6 Nov 2006 - Copyright © Luke Bonwick

Sheerness
truncated tower remains in good condition in grounds of block of flats.

Shorne
ivy clad ruinous building which was constructed from the post mill, though hardly recognisable now

Sissinghurst
octagonal brick foundations survive, area used for car parking
Sissinghurst mill with sails - 1930's

Smarden
although the cross trees and main post survived for many years (and achieved Listed Building status as such), now only the brick piers exist on site

St Margarets Bay
complete, but was built as part of a residential complex from the start
1969 - Copyright © Fred Atkins

Stanford
Under restoration. c2023 the very boxy fake cap was replaced with a more realistic one.

Staplehurst
ruinous remains of smock base

Stelling Minnis

Stocks Green

Sutton Valence

Waltham

West Hougham
collapsed 1951 - some overgrown wreckage may remain

West Kingsdown

Whitstable
Borstal Hill - Smock mill : #2757
Borstal Hill

Wickhambreux
miniature pumping mill - very poor condition

Willesborough

Wittersham
Stocks Mill - Post mill : #2730
Stocks Mill

Woodchurch