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Windmills of Kent


Surviving windmills

1 #2754 - Aldington NGR: TR056363 smock mill base only remains
2 #2745 - Appledore NGR: TQ954304 post mill -
3 #2744 Union Mill Appledore NGR: TQ953304 smock mill house converted
4 #2781 Guilton Mill Ash NGR: TR283584 smock mill Base house converted
5 no image #2749 Boundgate Mill Badlesmere NGR: TR010531 smock mill truncated base
6 #2771 Black Mill Barham NGR: TR214510 smock mill -
7 #2712 Beacon Mill Benenden NGR: TQ821324 smock mill -
8 no image #2737 White Mill Bethersden NGR: TQ929407 smock mill -
9 #2657 - Bidborough NGR: TQ562435 tower mill house converted in 2006
10 #2762 Old Mill Blean NGR: TR125607 smock mill -
11 no image #2564 - Bluebell Hill NGR: TQ011631 smock mill -
12 #2765 St Martins Canterbury NGR: TR161578 tower mill house converted
13 #2746 - Charing NGR: TQ957503 smock mill house converted
14 #2770 Ashley Mill Cheriton NGR: TR205373 smock mill -
15 #2780 - Chillenden NGR: TR268543 post mill was restored, but destroyed in storm Nov 2003. Rebuilt May-Aug 2005.
16 #2772 - Chislet NGR: TR225679 smock mill destroyed by fire, 15th September 2005
17 #2688 Darnley's Mill Cobham NGR: TQ672684 smock mill -
18 #2702 Union Mill Cranbrook NGR: TQ779359 smock mill restored
19 #2783 Upper Mill Eastry NGR: TR304545 smock mill house converted
20 #2637 - Edenbridge NGR: TQ443456 tower mill house converted
21 #2729 - Egerton NGR: TQ908472 smock mill -
22 #2758 Bodsham Green Elmsted NGR: TR106456 smock mill -
23 no image #2697 Great Prospect Mill Frindsbury NGR: TQ737706 smock mill -
24 #2710 - Frittenden NGR: TQ813424 post mill -
25 #2789 Swingate Mill Guston NGR: TR333443 tower mill house converted
26 #2769 - Herne NGR: TR184665 smock mill restored
27 no image #2768 Brook Lane Herne Bay NGR: TR180660 smock mill -
28 #2694 - Higham NGR: TQ719715 smock mill -
29 #2656 Watt's Cross Mill Hildenborough NGR: TQ559494 smock mill -
30 no image #2732 - Iwade NGR: TQ914688 post mill -
31 #2753 - Kennington NGR: TR032454 smock mill base remains. Was colocated with water and steam mills.
32 #2747 Shipley Hatch Mill Kingsnorth NGR: TR001391 smock mill -
33 #2766 Reed's Mill Kingston NGR: TR174500 tower mill derelict
34 #2684 Keys Green Mill Kippings Cross NGR: TQ647397 tower mill -
35 #2731 - Lenham Heath NGR: TQ914496 smock mill base
36 #2748 Oare Mill Luddenham NGR: TR009625 tower mill house converted
37 no image #2743 Champion's Mill Lynsted NGR: TQ944613 smock mill -
38 #2792 Draper's Mill Margate NGR: TR363701 smock mill -
39 #2680 - Meopham NGR: TQ639652 smock mill -
40 no image #2727 Meads Mill Milton Regis NGR: TQ900640 smock mill -
41 #2755 - Newchurch NGR: TR058313 tower mill truncated
42 no image #2776 Corn Mill Nonington NGR: TR250520 smock mill -
43 #2788 New Mill Northbourne NGR: TR331521 smock mill -
44 no image #2793 Thanet Mill Northwood NGR: TR370670 tower mill -
45 no image #2751 Copton Mill Ospringe NGR: TR014596 tower mill -
46 #2777 Old Mill Preston next Wingham NGR: TR256610 smock mill -
47 #2790 - Ripple NGR: TR362490 smock mill Served many years as a TV transmitter site, but now being restored as a mill again
48 #2717 - Rolvenden NGR: TQ837316 post mill -
49 #2708 Ringle Crouch Green Mill Sandhurst NGR: TQ804285 smock mill Has been rebuilt as a house from just the base that remained, but can also generate electricity.
50 #2786 White Mill Sandwich NGR: TR323587 smock mill -
51 #2778 - Sarre NGR: TR260651 smock mill -
52 #2734 Great Mill Sheerness NGR: TQ921746 smock mill surviving base being rebuilt as residential structure
53 #2736 Sea View Mill Sheerness NGR: TQ924750 tower mill -
54 #2690 - Shorne NGR: TQ689713 post mill -
55 no image #2705 - Sissinghurst NGR: TQ790370 smock mill -
56 no image #2722 West Mill Smarden NGR: TQ879420 post mill although the cross trees and main post survived for many years (and achieved Listed Building status as such), now only the brick piers exist on site
57 no image #2791 - St Margarets Bay NGR: TR363435 smock mill -
58 #2763 - Stanford NGR: TR128378 tower mill -
59 #2704 - Staplehurst NGR: TQ787430 smock mill -
60 #2764 Davison's Mill Stelling Minnis NGR: TR146465 smock mill restored
61 #2655 - Stocks Green NGR: TQ558478 smock mill -
62 #2711 - Sutton Valence NGR: TQ815493 smock mill house converted
63 #2759 Cloke's Mill Waltham NGR: TR109488 smock mill -
64 no image #2760 Dilnot's Mill Waltham NGR: TR110490 smock mill -
65 no image #2779 - West Hougham NGR: TR267403 smock mill collapse 1951 - some overgrown wreckage
66 #2661 - West Kingsdown NGR: TQ582623 smock mill restored
67 #2757 Borstal Hill Whitstable NGR: TR105652 smock mill house converted
68 #2761 Feakins's Mill Whitstable NGR: TR110661 smock mill -
69 #2775 Stodmarsh Mill Wickhambreux NGR: TR233604 post mill minature pumping mill - very poor condition
70 #2752 - Willesborough NGR: TR032422 smock mill restored
71 #2730 Stocks Mill Wittersham NGR: TQ913273 post mill restored
72 #2742 Lower Mill Woodchurch NGR: TQ943354 smock mill restored


Historical locations

Biddenden #2719

NGR: TQ850382
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Town Mill: smock mill

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Biddenden,the Windmill c1955,Kent
Biddenden, the Windmill c1955 {Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection}

Doddington #2740

NGR: TQ934575
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smock mill 1820 - demolished 1937

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Monkton

12th century windmill

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Northbourne #2787

NGR: TR330520
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Old Mill: smock mill


Vincent Pargetter in front of Northbourne mill, 1951 © Vincent Pargetter


Drawing pad cover showing Northbourne mill, c1930

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Ramsgate #2794

NGR: TR384651
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Grange Road Mill: smock mill

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Ramsgate,The Old Mill 1901,Kent
Ramsgate, The Old Mill 1901 {Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection}

Sandwich

- burned down in 1885

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Smarden #2724

NGR: TQ883429
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East Mill: smock mill - finished work around 1923

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