Windmills of Derbyshire 🌍


Surviving mills

# photo id name location maps type condition
1 #1291 Spancarr Mill Ashover NGR: SK341660 tower mill house converted 1996
2 #1292   Belper NGR: SK355472 tower mill house converted
3 #1480   Bolsover NGR: SK474715 tower mill full height tower
4 #1469 Cat and Fiddle Mill Dale Abbey NGR: SK438398 post mill conserved
5 #1289   Findern NGR: SK303308 tower mill house converted
6 #1293   Fritchley NGR: SK365532 post mill ruin
7 #1294   Heage NGR: SK367507 tower mill restored - six sailed
8 #1285 Carsington Pasture Mill Hopton NGR: SK252545 tower mill derelict
9 #1295   Melbourne NGR: SK378248 tower mill converted into observation tower
10 #1303   Ockbrook NGR: SK429357 tower mill truncated, derelict
11 #1472 Fordbridge Lane Mill South Normanton NGR: SK442569 tower mill house converted
12 #1471 Normanton Common Mill South Normanton NGR: SK442562 tower mill house converted, and so consumed that almost unrecognisable as a windmill
13 #1470 The Post Mill South Normanton NGR: SK442561
(53.09979,-1.3399) (approximate location)
post mill remains dismantled and put in storage, but kept so badly that most are believed to have completely rotted away

Breaston Park (#extra14)

(52.90092,-1.3132)
wind engine: - restored 2008

Dating from 1935, when a park was created with the wind engine pumping water for use in a paddling stream.

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