Windmills of Derbyshire 🌍


Surviving mills

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 #1291   Ashover Tower mill house converted 1996
2 #1292   Belper Tower mill house converted
3 #1480   Bolsover Tower mill full height tower
4 #1469 Cat and Fiddle Mill Dale Abbey Post mill conserved
5 #1289   Findern Tower mill house converted
6 #1293   Fritchley Post mill ruin
7 #1294   Heage Tower mill restored - six sailed
8 #1285   Hopton Tower mill derelict
9 #1295   Melbourne Tower mill converted into observation tower
10 #1303   Ockbrook Tower mill truncated, derelict
11 #1472   South Normanton Tower mill house converted
12 #1471   South Normanton Tower mill house converted, and so consumed that almost unrecognisable as a windmill
13 #1470   South Normanton Post mill remains dismantled and put in storage, but kept so badly that most are believed to have completely rotted away
(53.10027,-1.3413) (approximate location)

Breaston Park (#extra14)

(52.90092,-1.3132)
wind engine: - restored 2008

Dating from 1935, when a park was created with the wind engine pumping water for use in a paddling stream.

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