Windmills of Buckinghamshire

Surviving windmills

# photo id name location geo type condition photos
1 no image #1664 Nixey's Mill Brill NGR: SP652142
(51.82207,-1.0553) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
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. 1113
2 no image #1704 Caldecotte Arms Mill Caldecotte - Milton Keynes NGR: SP887355
(52.01098,-0.7078) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower built as a dummy mill (by professional millwrights) for pub/hotel complex 278
3 no image #1711 Hawridge Cholesbury NGR: SP935069
(51.75312,-0.6466) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower built on site of previous smock mill 53
4 no image #1833 Grove's Mill Coleshill NGR: SU948948
(51.64412,-0.6307) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower house converted 9
5 no image #1719 . Edlesborough NGR: SP982192
(51.86246,-0.5748) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower (alongside watermill) - house converted 14
6 #1819 Cobstone Mill Ibstone NGR: SU769915
(51.61701,-0.8895) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
smock cosmetically restored for a starring part in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". 220
7 no image #1695 . Lacey Green NGR: SP819008
(51.69979,-0.8160) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
smock conserved 230
8 no image #1696 . New Bradwell - Milton Keynes NGR: SP831411
(52.06225,-0.7891) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower restored 141
9 no image #1690 . North Marston NGR: SP775228
(51.89825,-0.8751) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower truncated 0
10 #1713 . Pitstone Green NGR: SP945157
(51.83176,-0.6298) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
post conserved, owned by the National Trust 1699
11 no image #1681 . Quainton NGR: SP746203
(51.87556,-0.9167) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower restored to working order 273
12 no image #1679 . Thornborough NGR: SP737352
(52.01055,-0.9271) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower truncated 0
13 no image #1702 . Wendover NGR: SP873082
(51.76571,-0.7450) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower house converted 12
14 no image #1838 . Wexham NGR: SU995844
(51.55027,-0.5661) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps
tower . 0

Historical locations

Beaconsfield #1832

NGR: SU948901
(51.60085,-0.6314) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

tower

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

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Bledlow Ridge #1821

NGR: SU799979
(51.67328,-0.8446) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

post - had 3 cross trees, and 6 quarterbars

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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 - Dual Google & Bing Maps

post

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Great Horwood #1688

NGR: SP765299
(51.96147,-0.8867) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

tower

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Great Linford #1699

NGR: SP850420
(52.06903,-0.7600) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

post mill - remains dated to 1220

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Great Missenden

Frith Hill: smock

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Haddenham

tower - demolished 1930's

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Haddenham

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Hawridge, Cholesbury

smock - demolished 1884

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Hillesden

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

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Little Missenden #1829

NGR: SU900970
(51.66367,-0.6989) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

Holmer Green Windmill: tower

foundations and some other minor remains believed to exist

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Long Crendon #1673

NGR: SP693093
(51.77719,-0.9956) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

post - demolished 1931

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Long Crendon #1674

NGR: SP693097
(51.78078,-0.9955) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

tower - demolished 1925

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Newton Longville

- windmill mound

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Stantonbury

tower

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Stewkley #1700

NGR: SP855253
(51.91881,-0.7569) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

smock

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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 - Dual Google & Bing Maps

post

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Twyford #1665

NGR: SP654271
(51.93771,-1.0487) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

tower

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Waddesdon #1684

NGR: SP752168
(51.84386,-0.9085) OS map + aerial, Google Maps Aerial - Dual Google & Bing Maps

tower

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