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Windmills of London


Surviving windmills

1 #2594 Barnet Gate Mill Arkley NGR: TQ217953 tower mill well maintained external appearance, with 4 sails
2 #2617 Ashby's Mill Brixton NGR: TQ304744 tower mill Has been conserved, but currently on the English Heritage "Buildings At Risk" register (2002) due to deteriorating condition. A Friends of Windmill Park group has recently formed (Spring 2003) with an objective of restoring the mill and surrounding park again.
3 #2618 - Clerkenwell NGR: TQ312827 tower mill truncated tower, within the waterworks site
4 #2643 - Erith NGR: TQ502772 post mill all that survives is part of the roundhouse wall, incorporated into a general boundary wall.
5 #2634 - Keston - London Borough of Bromley NGR: TQ415641 post mill conserved
6 #2612 - Mitcham Common NGR: TQ292678 Hollow-post bare trestle remains, deteriorating rapidly
7 #2638 Common Mill Plumstead NGR: TQ448779 tower mill converted, providing accomodation above the Old Mill pub.
8 #2624 - Shirley - London Borough of Croydon NGR: TQ355651 tower mill restored and open to the public
9 no image #2583 Crane Park Mill Twickenham NGR: TQ129729 windmill like tower Uncertain if this was ever a windmill - most research suggests it was not
10 #2653 - Upminster NGR: TQ557868 smock mill undergoing restoration
11 #2606 Common Mill Wandsworth NGR: TQ268745 smock mill small mill, for pumping - no sails remaining
12 #2598 - Wimbledon NGR: TQ230725 hollow post mill much altered - houses a milling museum
13 no image #x2 Dalston Mill Hackney
(51.54656,-0.0741) Google Maps Aerial - Google Map + Virtual Earth
vertical axis mill, constructed from scaffolding poles, as an art project only temporary, dismantled after a few weeks

Historical locations

Battersea

[print]

Blackheath

[Heritage image - clean] [Heritage image - clean]

Bromley by Bow

[Heritage image - clean]

Camberwell

post

[image]

Camberwell

tower

This tower mill stood very close to St George's church, on the south bank of the Surrey Canal. This illustration comes from "The Mirror of literature, amusment and instruction", a regular newsletter from Saturday, March 32, 1827.


Camberwell, 1827,

Enfield

NGR: TQ318967

smock

[dedicated page]

Gravesend

[image]

Hadley

Thomas Perry occupied it in 1734

[Old Bailey murder trail, 10th July 1734]

Hornchurch

post

Lambeth

[1750 view] [Drug Mill of the Apothicaries' Company] [Heritage image - clean]

Millbank

post

[image]

Millwall

[history]

Newgate Prison

used to power the ventilation system for the gaol

[info]

Nine Elms

Randall's Mill:

[1822 image]


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