Windmills of London 🌍


London is a fairly flexible term - the mills listed here are all within the current borders of the London boroughs, though a number were historically included in other counties.

Surviving mills

# photo id name location maps type condition
1 #2594 Barnet Gate Mill Arkley NGR: TQ217953 tower mill Restored appearance, with 4 sails. Not open to the public. Increasingly showing signs in 2023 of lack of maintenance.
2 #2617 Ashby's Mill Brixton NGR: TQ304744 tower mill Subject to an extensive restoration in early 2011 and now regularly open to the public. New visitor centre constructed 2019-2020.
3 #2618   Clerkenwell NGR: TQ312827 tower mill truncated tower, within the former waterworks site
4 #2643   Erith NGR: TQ502772 post mill part of the roundhouse wall, incorporated into a general boundary wall
5 #2634   Keston NGR: TQ415641 post mill conserved, occasionally open to the public
6 #2612   Mitcham Common NGR: TQ292678 Hollow-post bare trestle remains, previously deteriorating rapidly, but now stabilized
7 #2638 Common Mill Plumstead NGR: TQ448779 tower mill converted, providing accomodation above the Old Mill pub
8 #2624   Shirley NGR: TQ355651 tower mill restored and open to the public
9 #2583 Crane Park Mill Twickenham NGR: TQ129729 tower Used as a nature and visitor centre by the London Wildlife Trust
10 #2653   Upminster NGR: TQ557868 smock mill Restored to working order in 2016-2022, and since 2023 open to the public for tours 1 weekend a month.
11 #2606 Common Mill Wandsworth NGR: TQ268745 smock mill small mill, for pumping - no sails remaining
12 #2598   Wimbledon NGR: TQ230725 smock mill (previously hollow post mill) Much altered from its working appearance. Now a milling museum and regularly open.

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location maps type condition
1 #11466   Barking  
2 no
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#11432   Barnes open trestle post mill  
3 no
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    Battersea  
4 #11433 Fowlers Mill Battersea horizontal mill  
5 #10707   Blackheath  
6 no
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#11457   Brixton Hill smock  
7 no
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    Bromley by Bow  
8 #11465   Camberwell post  
9 #11463   Camberwell tower  
10 no
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#11439 Bree Kill mill Dulwich  
11 #11525   Edmonton post  
12 #12209   Enfield NGR: TQ318967 smock  
13 no
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    Gravesend  
14 no
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#x2 Dalston Mill Hackney
(51.54656,-0.0741)
vertical axis mill, constructed from scaffolding poles, as an art project only temporary installation in summer 2009, dismantled after a few weeks
15 no
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    Hadley  
16 no
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#12289   Hornchurch post  
17 no
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#11444 Apothecaries Lambeth  
18 no
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  Silk Mills Lewisham skeleton wind pump  
19 no
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    Millbank post  
20 no
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    Millwall  
21 #11437   Newgate Prison hollow post  
22 no
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#11441 Randall's Mill Nine Elms  
23 no
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#12583   Sydenham  
24 no
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    Walthamstow post  


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