Windmills of Staffordshire 🌍


Surviving mills

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
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#1275 Werrington Caverswall tower mill now houses radio communications
2 no
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#1270   Codsall tower mill House converted
3 #1271 Butterhill Coppenhall tower mill derelict
4 #1264 Croxton Eccleshall tower mill Recently house converted
5 no
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#1568   Enville tower mill derelict
6 no
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#1276   Essington post mill roundhouse and main post remain, derelict
7 #1263   Forton tower mill incorporated into a monument/folly c1780, now ruined
8 no
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#1273 Meir Heath Fulford tower mill flat roofed tower, recently made watertight
9 no
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#1278   Gentleshaw tower mill  
10 #1266 Beffcote Gnosall tower mill house converted
11 no
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#1279   Hammerwich tower mill house converted
12 #1269   Kidsgrove tower mill  
13 no
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#1281   Lichfield tower mill house converted
14 no
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#1567   Pattingham tower mill house converted
(52.59621,-2.2436) (approximate location)
15 #1277   Saredon tower mill house converted, painted pink
16 no
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#1272 Broad Eye Stafford tower mill Conserved - being adapted as an Industrial Heritage Museum
17 #1280   Upper Longdon tower mill house converted
18 no
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#1282   Weeford tower mill  

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

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    Bilston
Details

Aris's Birmingham Gazette, 26 January 1784

TO be LET and entered upon immediately, An exceedingly well-blown Windmill, in which there are two good Pair of Stones, one French, the other English, and every other Convenience thereto belonging, situate near the populous Town of Bilston, in the County of Stafford, and within two Hundred Yards of the Canal; nine Miles from Birmingham, two Miles of Wolverhampton, and four of Dudley, which said Mill was late in the Holding of Messrs. Chapman and Brown.- For further Particulars apply to Mr. Offley, at the Clive, near Pattingham, or of Mr. Brown, of the Wood Farm, near Sedgley.
N. B. All Persons who stand indebted to the said Messrs. Chapman and Brown, are desired to pay the fame immediately to the said Mr. Brown, of the Wood Farm aforesaid, or they will be sued without further Notice.


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