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Surviving windmills

# photo id name location geo type condition photos
1 no image #1664 Nixey's Mill Brill NGR: SP652142 post Preserved - unable to turn to face wind. Extensively restored in 2009, giving it a new external appearance with new roundhouse, rear steps, weatherboarding and sails. 810
2 no image #1704 Caldecotte Arms Mill Caldecotte - Milton Keynes NGR: SP887355 tower built as a dummy mill (by professional millwrights) for pub/hotel complex 192
3 no image #1711 Hawridge Cholesbury NGR: SP935069 tower built on site of previous smock mill 28
4 no image #1833 Grove's Mill Coleshill NGR: SU948948 tower house converted 4
5 no image #1719 . Edlesborough NGR: SP982192 tower (alongside watermill) - house converted 3
6 #1819 Cobstone Mill Ibstone NGR: SU769915 smock cosmetically restored for a starring part in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". 162
7 no image #1695 . Lacey Green NGR: SP819008 smock conserved 135
8 no image #1696 . New Bradwell - Milton Keynes NGR: SP831411 tower restored 103
9 no image #1690 . North Marston NGR: SP775228 tower truncated 0
10 #1713 . Pitstone Green NGR: SP945157 post conserved, owned by the National Trust 951
11 no image #1681 . Quainton NGR: SP746203 tower restored to working order 187
12 no image #1679 . Thornborough NGR: SP737352 tower truncated 0
13 no image #1702 . Wendover NGR: SP873082 tower house converted 4
14 no image #1838 . Wexham NGR: SU995844 tower . 0

Historical locations

Beaconsfield #1832

NGR: SU948901
(51.60085,-0.6314) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

tower

large fragment of this tower left in 1976, but probably entirely gone by now

[photo] [drawing] [photo] [drawing] [sketch]

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Bledlow Ridge #1821

NGR: SU799979
(51.67328,-0.8446) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

post - had 3 cross trees, and 6 quarterbars

[details] [photo] [photo] [photo]

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Brill #8798

Parsons Mill: post mill - demolished 1906

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Cuddington #1677

NGR: SP730109
(51.79110,-0.9416) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

post

[photo] [miller]

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Great Horwood #1688

NGR: SP765299
(51.96147,-0.8867) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

tower

[photo]

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Great Linford #1699

NGR: SP850420
(52.06903,-0.7600) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

post mill - remains dated to 1220

[mention]

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Great Missenden

Frith Hill: smock

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Haddenham

tower - demolished 1930's

[photo] [sketch] [photo]

Haddenham

post

[photo]

Hawridge, Cholesbury

smock - demolished 1884

[photo]

Hillesden

Manor Farm mill: strange "home made" mill - partly demolished 1930's

[photo] [photo] [photo]

Little Missenden #1829

NGR: SU900970
(51.66367,-0.6989) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

Holmer Green Windmill: tower

foundations and some other minor remains believed to exist

[photo]

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Long Crendon #1673

NGR: SP693093
(51.77719,-0.9956) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

post - demolished 1931

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Long Crendon #1674

NGR: SP693097
(51.78078,-0.9955) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

tower - demolished 1925

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Newton Longville

- windmill mound

[photo]

Stantonbury

tower

[photo]

Stewkley #1700

NGR: SP855253
(51.91881,-0.7569) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

smock

[photo] [photo] [photo] [photo] [photo]

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Stokenchurch

post - collapsed 1935

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Stone #1691

NGR: SP779123
(51.80303,-0.8703) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

post

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Twyford #1665

NGR: SP654271
(51.93771,-1.0487) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

tower

[photo]

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Waddesdon #1684

NGR: SP752168
(51.84386,-0.9085) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth

tower

[photo] [drawing] [drawing] [drawing]

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