Windmills of Somerset 🌍


Surviving mills

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
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#1751   Brockley Tower mill ruin
2 #1736 Watchfield mill Burnham Without Tower mill  
3 #1744 Ashton Mill Chapel Allerton Tower mill preserved - open to the public NGR: ST414504
4 no
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#1741   Curry Rivel Tower mill truncated at around 9ft
5 #1753 Broadfield windmill Felton Tower mill house converted NGR: ST515649
6 #1748 Stembridge Mill High Ham Tower mill thatched mill, owned by the National Trust NGR: ST433305
7 no
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#1739   Hutton Tower mill Observation tower with big pent roof and windows all round below this
(51.32559,-2.9184) (approximate location)
8 #1738   Locking Tower mill Truncated tower incorporated into large house, forming semicircular feature at right end of front, with 2 circular rooms inside.
9 #1749   Portishead Tower mill converted NGR: ST458767
10 #1733   Uphill, Weston-super-mare Tower mill truncated tower NGR: ST317583
11 #1750   Walton Tower mill house converted NGR: ST462352
12 #1742 Stone Allerton Weare Tower mill house converted NGR: ST406515
13 #1730   West Monkton Tower mill Vertical sided tower shell in wood
14 no
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#1729   West Monkton Tower mill Squat,2 storey, on end wall of cottage.
15 #1737   Worle Tower mill converted to observatory NGR: ST352632

Historical mills

This table is selective, and probably far from comprehensive.

# photo id name location type condition maps
1 no
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#1743   Kenn Tower mill ruined truncated tower survived for many years - finally demolished 2003. Replacement mock mill built nearby.
(51.42233,-2.8484) (approximate location)
2 no
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    Langport
Details
Sherborne Mercury, 30 January 1775
To be LETT, and entered upon immediately,
A New erected Wind-Mill,
On Week-Hill, near Langport, in the county of Somerset, with or without a house, garden and orchard, at a little distance from it.

The Mill is of an excellent construction, consisting of three pair of stones with every conveniency annexed, and is now, in perfect order; situate near the village of Week, about a mile from Langport, Drayton, and Curry Rivell; and about five miles from Sumerton and Ilminster.

For letting the same, attendance will be given at the Bird-in-Hand, in North Curry, on Friday the 17th of February next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

Apply in the mean time to Maurice Trevillian, Esq; at Midleney; near Langport, or to Mr. J. Cridland, attorney at law, near Taunton.

To be Sold immediately, on the most reasonable terms, Twenty-Eve head of Deer, at Midleney aforefaid.
Dated Jan. 27, 1775
3 no
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  Heath House Mill Wedmore
Details

demolished early 1960s

[Westover wills]


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