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Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (#wales26)

NGR: SH448934

tower - derelict

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The old windmill above Amlwch

Peter Worrell

The old windmill at Amlwch Port

Bob Shires

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Bettisfield (#wales27)

NGR: SJ472349

tower - house converted

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Bettisfield Windmill

John Haynes

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Bodffordd (#wales8)

NGR: SH425772

tower - house converted

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Old Windmill

Nigel Williams

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Bryn Du (#wales7)

NGR: SH34577255

Melin-Y-Bont: tower

Ruinous watermill and windmill (burnt out circa 1970). 8 pairs of stones driven by either water or wind. 4 sails, breast-shot wheel, 3 floors, 4 wire machines. Combined wind/water mill circa 1826.

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Melin Y Bont, Bryn Du

gordon

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Bryn Du (#wales6)

NGR: SH342727

Maelgwyn Mill: tower

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Maelgwyn Mill & Felin Uchaf, Bryn Du, Anglesey.

Stephen Elwyn RODDICK

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Brynteg (#wales13)

NGR: SH497829

tower - derelict

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Old windmill, Brynteg, Anglesey

Keith Williamson

The ruined Mona Corn Mill, Brynteg

Eric Jones

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Capel Coch (#wales19)

NGR: SH457821

tower - derelict

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Old windmill at Capel Coch

Nigel Williams

Ger y Felin House on the southern side of Capel Coch village

Eric Jones

Melin Wynt Capel Coch Windmill

Eric Jones

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Cemaes, Anglesey (#wales11)

NGR: SH365926

tower - house converted

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Cemaes Mill

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Cemaes Mill

Graeme Walker

Cemaes Mill

Phil Williams

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Defended Building, Angle

NGR: SM86690195

Truncated, two-storey, circular stone tower. The building is a former windmill, adapted as a defence post with inserted concrete floor and five wide splayed concrete embrasures fitted with Turnbull mountings at 1st floor level. Steel rungs set in wall allow access to hatch in floor. During WW1 it probably served as a machine gun post. It was probably an observation post during the Napoleonic Wars [WW2 use not stated]. External diameter 6.09m, walls 1.25m thick, 3.6m high.

Foel Fawr, Mynytho (#wales22)

NGR: SH305320

tower - derelict

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Approaching the windmill on the summit of Foel Fawr

Eric Jones

The Foel Fawr windmill

Eric Jones

The ruined windmill on the summit of Foel Fawr

Eric Jones

Foel Fawr Mynytho

Alan Fryer

Foel Fawr and old windmill

David Medcalf

Henllys Newydd Caravan Site

David Medcalf

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Frampton Windmill (#wales21)

NGR: SS97156933

tower

1820, tower windmill, 3 storey conical tower of coursed squared stone rubble.

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Old Windmill, Llantwit Major

Stephen McKay

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Gaerwen, Anglesey (#wales15)

NGR: SH479722

tower - derelict

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Old windmill at Gaerwen, Anglesey.

Donald Perkins

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Gaerwen, Anglesey (#wales16)

NGR: SH476719

tower

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Old windmill No. 2 at Gaerwen, Anglesey

Donald Perkins

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Glan-Yr-Afon, Felin Wynt; Marian Dyrys Windmill (#wales12)

NGR: SH60828116

tower - house converted

18th century, probably. Circular windmill. Sloping walls. Rubble masonry. 3 storey. Rectangular openings 1st and 2nd floor. Top of wall gone.

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Windmill on the hill

Nigel Williams

'The windmill on the hill' framed against Ynys Seiriol as viewed from Mariandyrys

Eric Jones

The minor road to Penmon at Mariandyrys

Eric Jones

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Hen Dwr, Nant-Y-Gamar Road, Llandudno; Old Tower

NGR: SH80428117

tower

A former windmill with a tower of two stages; 22 ft high, 14 ft in diameter, with walls 4 ft. thick at base but tapering upwards. Pebble dash cladding. Walls pierced by window openings now boarded. Much altered by conversion to a dwelling, probably during late C18; two-storey wing constructed at north end.

Hermon Windmill, Anglesea (#wales17)

NGR: SH3969

tower - derelict

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Hermon Windmill

Stephen Elwyn RODDICK

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Holywell (#wales23)

NGR: SJ190758

tower

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Windmill in Holywell (Treffynnon)

Peter Craine

Holywell Windmill

Phil Williams

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Llanengan, Gwynedd (#wales24)

NGR: SH297275

tower

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Mynwent Capel y Bwlch a'r hen felin wynt - Capel y Bwlch graveyard and the old windmill

Alan Fryer

View north towards Llanengan

Eric Jones

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Llanerchymedd (#wales9)

NGR: SH425838

tower - house converted

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Old Windmill

Nigel Williams

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Llangefni (#wales14)

NGR: SH465758

tower - used as telecoms tower

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Old Windmill, Llangefni

Keith Williamson

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Llechcynfarwy (#wales20)

NGR: SH382818

tower - derelict

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Old windmill near to Llechcynfarwy

Nigel Williams

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Lower Llancayo; Llancayo Farm Outbuildings, Usk (#wales4)

NGR: SO365030

tower - Undergoing house conversion, April 2008

Complex includes a C19 windmill tower, pre 1813. Erected for Edward Berry of Lancayo. Prominent tapering conical tower with attached roofless mill building. 3 door openings above ground level & 4 square windows. Put-log holes under first sill-course. Listed as a prominent early C19 windmill tower, a significant landmark and survival of the C19 agricultural improvements on the Lancayo Estate.

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Extensive re-development of Llancayo windmill

Roger Davies

Gwehelog Fawr: Llancayo windmill

Martin Bodman

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Melin Llynnon, Anglesey (#wales1)

NGR: SH34058523

tower - Restored to working order

The last tower mill on Anglesey to retain sails and machinery. Built September 1775 - March 1776 at a cost of £529 11s 0d. Stone tower, rendered, four storeys with boat-shaped cap. Three pairs of millstones: one pair French burrs for wheat flour, one pair Anglesey stones for general milling, one pair open for view. Ceased milling by wind-power in 1924; Four sails in good condition in 1929. Restored to working order and opened to the public in 1984.

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Llanddeusant

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Melin Wynt Llynnon Llanddeusant Llynnon Windmill

Alan Fryer

Millstones in Llynnon windmill

Jim Woodward-Nutt

Llynnon Mill

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Llynnon Mill from the North

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Llynnon Mill

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Iron Age Village, Llynnon Mill, Llanddeusant, Anglesey.

Stephen Elwyn RODDICK

Llynnon Mill, Anglesey

Geoff Barber

Llynnon Mill pre restoration 1976

Stephen Elwyn RODDICK

Melin Wynt Llynnon

Gareth Hughes

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Monknash Windmill

NGR: SS91867060

tower

Ruined tower, approximately 24ft high; walls approximately 3 1/2ft thick. Prior to revision (11.12.68) OS showed Monknash grange dovecote (Nprn37613) as a windmill.

Morfa Mill, Aberystwyth

NGR: SN58108025

Built circa 1740, using machinery from former windmill in Windmill Court, Aberystwyth. Watermill still operating late 19th century.

Mynydd Mechell (#wales10)

NGR: SH363901

tower - house converted

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Mynydd Mechell

Phil Williams

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Parys mountain, Amlwch, Anglesey (#wales2)

NGR: SH44319051

tower

Ruined pumping windmill, associated with copper mining complex

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Parys Mountain (Disused Copper Mines)

Ian Warburton

Parys Mountain windmill

Chris Allen

Disused windmill Parys mountain

Steve Fareham

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Rhoscefnhir, Isle of Anglesey (#wales25)

NGR: SH523763

tower

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Melin Orsedd - a ruined windmill (corn) at Rhoscefnhir

Eric Jones

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Rogiet Windmill, Rogiet (#wales3)

NGR: ST45528826

tower

Small windmill tower, possibly 16th century.

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Windmill Lane

Colin Bates

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St Davids, Pembrokeshire

NGR: SM75792509

Twr y Felin: tower - converted into a hotel

Hotel built c.1915 with an old windmill as its core.

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Sully Windmill (#wales5)

NGR: ST141679

tower

Situated in the garden of a modern house are the remains of the manorial windmill of Sully. Only the base survives, built of random limestone rubble with sandy mortar and standing to 2.1m high. The circular tower is 5.8m in external diameter with walls 1.3m thick, strongly battered on the outside. It is entered by opposing doorways, 1.1m wide on the outside, narrowing to 0.8m on the inside. A millstone now rests against its inside wall on the W side. It measures 1.07m in diameter and 0.18m thick.

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Trearddur Bay, Anglesey

NGR: SH26577887

Stanley Windmill:

18th century. Former windmill. Circular. Tapering tower. Raised by 1 storey above former roof level. Rubble. Converted for occupation. It was still worked by wind in 1934.

Twr-Y-Felin, Llandegfan (#wales18)

NGR: SH56617401

tower - truncated

18th century, probably. Remains of windmill. Circular masonry walls diminishing in girth upwards. Rectangular openings. Upper part missing. Cap and remains of sails in 1929.

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Disused windmill

David Medcalf

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Ty Crwn, Barmouth

NGR: SH61471549

Windmill tower turned into a folly.

Wick Windmill

NGR: SS92377205

tower

Small tower about 25ft high and 20ft wide. Two-storeyed originally. Portrayed as 'old windmill' on OS County series (1878).


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