Chinnor windmill, Oxfordshire 🌍

Chinnor #1682

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NGR: SP749012

(51.70368,-0.9163)

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Post mill function:Corn mill - dismantled in 1965, but now being rebuilt. Famous for having 3 crosstrees, and 6 quarterbars.

Restoration work took a very visible step forward in Aug 2011, when the buck was lifted back onto the trestle.

Chinnor windmill on lift day

Chinnor windmill on lift day, 3/8/11 © Colin Grenville

Chinnor windmill on lift day

Chinnor windmill on lift day, 3/8/11 © Colin Grenville

Chinnor windmill on lift day

Chinnor windmill on lift day, 3/8/11 © Colin Grenville

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Entry in Mills Archive database - #1682 - Post mill, Chinnor

This large post mill was built in 1789. It was reputedly moved from Chatham, Kent. It had a brick roundhouse hiding a six quarter-bar trestle. The mill had patent sails, ladder and fantail and was in working order up to 1938. The mill was dismantled in 1960. It is now being restored. The trestle is in place, but the buck has not yet been assembled.

Muggeridge Collection photos

F183705 - Chinnor. Oxon. Post And Quarter Beams. Jul 1961. (colour slide)
F183706 - Chinnor. Oxon. Base Of C.P. Jul 1961. (colour slide)
F186395 - Chinnor. Oxford. March 1932 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
F186396 - Chinnor. Oxford. March. 1932 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
F186397 - Post Mill. Chinnor. Bucks. 25.2.40 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)
F186398 - Post Mill. Chinnor. Bucks. 25.2.40 (W B Muggeridge plate glass negative)

[PastScape]

Wind shaft in Chinnor Mill [2017-05-14] - HD

Chinnor Post Mill [2017-05-14] - HD

Installing the tail wheel track at Chinnor Mill [2017-05-14] - HD

Chinnor Post Mill [2017-05-14] - HD

Post mill, Chinnor [2017-05-11] - HD

Chinnor, post mill - the post [2016-05-15]

Chinnor, post mill - stone floor [2016-05-15]

Chinnor, post mill [2016-05-15]

Chinnor post mill - the main support [2016-05-15]

Chinnor post mill [2016-05-15]

Chinnor Windmill [2016-05-15]

Chinnor Windmill [2015-12-29] - HD

Des Blenkinsopp

Chinnor post mill undergoing restoration. [2010-05-04] - HD

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News item: Chinnor buck lifted on to trestle (7/8/11)

News item: Progress report from Chinnor (23/4/07)

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The disused corn mill on the outskirts of Chinnor village

Chinnor Windmill, Mill Lane, Chinnor, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire

Sep 1932 - Photograph (Negative)

Last updated 13/02/2026

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