List of windmills in Buckinghamshire

A list of windmills in Buckinghamshire, UK.

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Extant windmills in Buckinghamshire.
1 Brill, 2 Cholesbury 3, Cobstone, 4 Coleshill, 5 Lacey Green, 6 New Bradwell, 7 Pitstone, 8 Quainton, 8 Caldecotte

Locations

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Aylesbury	Walton Green			1798	1798
Aylesbury	Walton Green (2nd mill)			1798	1798
Aylesbury	Bierton Road Mill		1788	1788	1788
Beaconsfield		Tower		1811	1968, collapsed by 1976
Bledlow Ridge	Bledlow Ridge Mill	Post		1798	Dismantled 1933
Brill				1286	1286
Brill				1345	1345
Brill	Brill Windmill Nixey's Mill SP 652 142	Post	1788	1668	Windmill World
Brill	Parson's Mill[1]		1788	1788	Demolished 1906[2]
Brill	(3rd mill)			1798	1798
Chalfont St Giles			1788	1788	1788
Chalfont St Peter	Astingwood		1788	1788	1788
Chesham		Smock		c. 1650	Moved to Lacey Green, 1821
Cholesbury	Hawridge Mill Cholesbury Mill	Smock[3]		1863	Demolished 1884
Cholesbury	Cholesbury Mill SP 935 069	Tower		1884	Windmill World
Coleshill	Grove's Mill SU 948 948	Tower		1856	Windmill World
Cuddington		Post		18th century	Demolished 1925
Dynton			1788	1788	1788
Edlesborough			1788	1788	1788
Edlesborough	SP 982 192	tower		Early 19th century	Windmill World
Farnham Royal				1798	1798
Fulmer		Tower		19th century
Great Horwood		Tower		1864	Demolished c. 1940
Great Horwood	Singleborough Mill		1830	1830	1830
Great Linford				1220[2]	1220[2]
Great Missenden		Post	1788	1788	Burnt down c. 1876
Grove			1788	1788	1798
Haddenham		Post	1788	1788	1918[4]
Haddenham	Old Mill	Post			Burnt down 14 October 1877.[5]
Haddenham		Tower		1878	Demolished 1930s[2]
Hartwell				1798	1798
Hillesden				1899 (OS Map)	1959 (OS Map)
Hulcott			1788	1788	1798
Ibstone				1633	1633
Ibstone	Cobstone Windmill SU 769 915	Smock		1816	Windmill World
Ickford			1788	1788	1788
Lacey Green	Lacey Green Windmill SP 819 008	Smock		1821	Windmill World
Little Missenden (Holmer Green)		Tower		c. 1829	Collapsed 1929
Long Crendon				1297	1297
Long Crendon		Post	1788	1788	Demolished 1931[2]
Long Crendon	Chilton Road Mill[2]	Tower[2]		1864	Demolished 1925[2]
Mursley		Post	1788	1788	Burnt down c. 1895
New Bradwell	New Bradwell Windmill SP 831 411	Tower		1805	Windmill World
North Crawley			1834	1798	1834
North Crawley			1834	1798	1834
North Marston	SP 775 228	Smock	1788	1788	1864 Windmill World
Padbury			1788	1788	1864
Pitstone	Pitstone Windmill SP 945 157	Post	1788	1627, roundhouse built 1895	Windmill World
Prestwood				19th century	19th century
Princes Risborough				1798	1798
Quainton	Banner Mill SP 746 203	Tower		1832	Windmill World
Radnage			1788	1788	1788
Stantonbury		Tower			1907
Stewkley		Smock		1839	1930[6]
Stewkley				1883	1883
Stokenchurch		Post	1788	1736	Blown down 1935[2]
Stoke Mandeville			1788	1788	1788
Stone				1801[7]	1914[8]
Swanbourne				13th century	13th century
Thornborough	SP 737 352	Tower		1840s	Windmill World
Towersey[9]			1788	1788	1798
Turweston			1798	1796	1798
Twyford		Tower	1788	1788	1798
Twyford		Tower		19th century	1935[10]
Waddesdon		Tower		1835	1930[11]
Wendover	SP 873 082	Tower	1788	1788	Windmill World
Wexham	SU 995 844	Tower			Windmill World
Whitchurch				1776	1864
Wing			1788	1788	Demolished c. 1798
Winslow	(five mills)				All burnt down in 1760[7]

Mock mill

Location	Name of mill	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Milton Keynes	Caldecotte Mill	Tower		1990	Built as a pub and restaurant

Sources

Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is Vince, John (1976). Windmills in Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns. Thames Ditton: Format Publishing. ISBN 0-905759-00-1.

Maps

• 1788 Thomas Jeffrey
• 1834 Ordnance Survey

Notes

Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.

References

1. "group of boys standing in front of Nixey's Mill; Parson's Mill in background". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
2. "Windmills of Buckinghamshire". Windmill World. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
3. "Hawridge Mill, smock mill, pulled down 1884". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
4. "Haddenham Postmill, 4 common sails derelict, 3 figures and cow 1918". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
5. "Severe Gale". The Standard. No. 16609. London. 17 October 1877. p. 6.
6. "sketch of the windmill". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
7. Foreman, Wilfred (1983). Oxfordshire Mills. Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 0-85033-441-1.
8. "drawing of the derelict windmill". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
9. In Oxfordshire since 1932
10. Photo dated 1935 in Mills Archive
11. "sketch of the windmill". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 3 November 2008.