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Surviving Windmills in Sussex

Alfriston
Tower mill : #2645
house converted
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Angmering
Tower mill : #2576
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Arundel
Tower mill : #2565
house converted
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Baldslow
Smock mill : #2707
house converted

Barnham
was restored, but then then tragically allowed to be house converted

Battle
Smock mill : #2699

Bexhill
Post mill : #2696
although the trestle survived till around 2009, all that now survives on site is the roundhouse wall and some millstone fragments

Billingshurst
Hammond's Mill - Smock mill : #2578
consolidated ruins, now providing a historic feature on a recently built housing estate
Hammond's Mill

Bolney
post : #2604
reduced scale mill

Chailey
Smock mill : #2627
conserved
Chailey - May 1998

Chailey
South Common - Smock mill : #2626
base
South Common

Clayton
Jill - Post mill : #2614
restored
26/4/08
Jill

Clayton
Jack - Tower mill : #2615
preserved tower
26/4/08
Jack

Clayton
Duncton Gate Mill - Post mill : #2616
roundhouse remains
Duncton Gate Mill

Climping

Cowbeech
base converted to living accommodation

Cross in Hand
New Mill - Post mill : #2654
unrestored, and increasing worsening condition
New Mill

Cross in Hand
Little Mill - Post mill : #2652
roundhouse
Little Mill

Crowborough

Dallington
ruins

Earnley

East Wittering

Eastbourne
Horizontal windmill : #2796
A few foundations remain of the bolting house which became a horizontal windmill.

Golden Cross
Post mill : #2650
roundhouse, house converted

Hailsham
Post mill : #2663
Roundhouse and trestle now combined into a vaguely windmill looking residential structure

Halnaker
Visually restored but empty tiled tower. Latest restoration (2019) has bricked up all the door and window openings, so there is no longer any access to the interior.

Herstmonceux
recent thorough restoration

High Salvington
restored and workable

High Salvington
Glynde windpump - wooden windpump : #extra5
restored and workable
Glynde windpump

Hunston
base, house converted

Icklesham
conserved

Keymer
Oldland mill - Post mill : #2620
restored
26/4/08
Oldland mill

Lewes
base, house converted

Lewes

Ashcombe Mill - Post mill : #2628
historical footings survived, which were used as the basis for a complete reconstruction based on a steel framework, to provide residential accomodation, and theoretically electricity generation.
Ashcombe Mill

Lower Dicker
: #2651
roundhouse, house converted

Mark Cross

Mayfield
Argos Hill - Post mill : #2658
Restored
Argos Hill - May 1998
Argos Hill

Nutbourne Manor
converted

Nutley
restored open trestle mill
Nutley - May 1998

Pagham

Partridge Green
Although much of the mill was "relocated" to Gatwick Manor in the 1960, the original smock base still survives

Patcham

Polegate
Conserved and regularly open to the public

Punnett's Town

Ringmer
reerected main post, held up by concreted wooden supports

Rottingdean
conserved

Rye
dummy reconstructed on original base after fire destroyed original smock

Selsey
visual restoration

Shipley
previously restored, but after a dispute over the lease the friends group are no longer able to maintain it, nor open it to the public
Shipley - Mills Open - photo by Jim Woodward-Nutt

Singleton
Weald and Downland museum - brickyard windpump : #1827
moved to museum and restored then to working order, but not actively worked
Weald and Downland museum

South Malling, Lewes

Stone Cross
restored to working order

Tidebrook
Riseden Mill - Post mill : #2674
ruins
Riseden Mill

Warbleton
base

Washington
Rock Mill - Smock mill : #2582
house conversion
Rock Mill

West Blatchington
conserved and open to public

West Chiltington

Winchelsea
Blew down in the Great Storm of 1987 - just 3 piers and millstones remain on site