List of windmills in Staffordshire
This is a list of windmills in the English county of Staffordshire.
Locations[]
A - B[]
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Audley | Approximately SK 827 544 |
Tower | 1796 | 1860, gone by 1899 | ||
Bilston | Bilston Mill[1] SO 954 967 |
Post[2] | 1686 | 1686 | 1771[3] | |
Bilston | Mount Pleasant Mill[4] SO 954 967 |
Tower | 1791 | Demolished early 1960s | ||
Blakenall Heath | Approximately SK 000 025 |
Post | 1686 1693 1747 1775 1787 |
1686 | 1787 | |
Blakenhall Heath | Approximately SK 000 022 |
Post | 1686 1693 1747 1775 1787 |
1686 | 1787 | |
Blakenhall Heath | Bloxwich Mill (one of above two sites) |
1816 | 1853 | |||
Bloxwich | Little Bloxwich Mill[5] approximately SJ 997 018 |
Post | 1682 | 1609[6] | 1682[7] | |
Bloxwich | Great Bloxwich Mill[8] | Post[9] | 1682 1775 |
1682[10] | c. 1812[11] | |
Blymhill | Approximately SJ 818 156 |
1203 | 1291 | |||
Bradley | Approximately SJ 879 180 |
1337 | 1337 | |||
Brewood | Kent's Mill approximately SJ 876 084 |
1775 | 1775 | 1778 | ||
Brewood | Somerford Mill approximately SJ 899 089 |
Post | 1817 | 1802 | 1880 | |
Beffcote Mill SJ 803 195 |
Tower | Late 18th century | Windmill World | |||
Bromstead Heath | SJ 800 159 | |||||
Brocton | Oat Hill Mill approximately SJ 978 205 |
1686 1747 1749 |
1686 | 1749 | ||
Burslem | Approximately SJ 869 500 |
Tower | c. 1750 | 1832, gone by 1860 | ||
Burslem | Approximately SJ 867 498 |
1780s | Disused early 19th century, demolished 1960s | |||
Burton on Trent | Approximately SK 241 234 |
1818 | 1844 |
C[]
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Cannock | SJ 990 102 | |||||
Church Eaton | Alstone Mill SJ 845 186 |
1682 1775 1831 |
1641 | 1831 | ||
Church Eaton | High Onn Mill SJ 827 162 |
Gone by 1652 | ||||
Church Eaton | Shushions Manor Mill approximately SJ 843 144 |
1300 | 1301 | |||
Codsall | Codsall Windmill SJ 867 041 |
Tower | 1775 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Colton | Approximately SK 041 207 |
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Coppenhall | Coppenhall Mill SJ 897 191 |
1607 | 1617 | |||
Coppenhall Mill | Butterhill Mill SJ 897 191 |
Tower | c. 1800 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Coseley | Old Mill, Bramford SO 938 932 |
Tower | c. 1780[12] | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Coseley | Maullin's Mill, Roseville SO 935 935 |
Post | 1812 | 1813 | ||
Coseley | Coseley Mill, Roseville SO 936 936 |
Post | 1820 | 1820 | 1868 | |
Coseley | New Mill[13] | Tower[14] | ||||
Coven Heath | SJ 910 048 | 1775 | 1775 | 1775, gone by 1790 | ||
Approximately SJ 830 198 |
1686 1747 |
1587 | 1747 | |||
Croxton | Croxton Mill SJ 782 318 |
Tower | 1777 | Windmill World | ![]() |
D - F[]
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Darlaston | Darlaston Mill[15] | Post[16] | 1795 | 1795 | 1795 | |
Darlaston | Approximately SO 974 969 |
Tower | 1834 | 1818 | 1886, gone by 1902 | |
Dilhorne | Approximately SJ 974 436 |
1775 | 1775 | 1872, gone by 1900 | ||
Dudley | Shaver's End Mill SO 933 908 |
Post[17] | 1682 | 1682[18] | 1682[19] | |
Dudley | Shaver's End Mill SO 933 908 |
Tower | 1800 1816 |
1787[20] | Demolished 1930s | ![]() |
Dudley | Eve Hill Mill SO 935 901 |
Post | 1682 1747 1749 1775 |
1682 | 1775 | |
Dudley | Eve Hill Mill SO 935 901 |
Tower | 1808 | 1822, gone by 1886 | ||
Dudley | London Fields Mill SO 929 905 |
1682 1747 1749 |
1682 | 1749 | ||
Dudley | Tipton Green Mill SO 958 925 |
1682 1747 1749 |
1682 | 1749 | ||
Dudley | Nertherton Mill SO 935 874 |
1818 | 1818 | 1818 | ||
Enville | Spital Brook Mills SO 845 877 |
Tower | 1801 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Enville | Grove Farm Mill approximately SO 805 879 |
Early 19th century | Early 19th century | |||
Enville | Highgate Common Mill approximately SO 837 884 |
Early 19th century | Early 19th century | |||
Essington | Essington Mill SJ 943 036 |
Midlands post | 1775 | 1681 | 1930 Windmill World |
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Etruria | Etruria Pottery Works[1] SJ 868 474 |
Tower | 1774 | 1794 | ||
Forton | Forton Mill SJ 758 216 |
Tower | 1573 | 1780 Windmill World |
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G - H[]
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Milwich Mill SJ 969 340 |
Tower | 1812 | 1829 | |||
Gentleshaw | Gentleshaw Mill SK 051 119 |
Tower | 1820 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Gentleshaw | Coney's Mill SK 050 160 |
1775 | 1775 | 1895 | ||
Approximately SJ 779 349 |
Gone by 1564 | |||||
Gerrards Bromley | Approximately SJ 779 349 |
1818 1831 |
1818 | 1831 | ||
Gnosall | SJ 829 209 | 1831 | 1815 | 1831 | ||
Hammerwich | SK 067 074 | 1300 | 1300 | |||
Hammerwich | Speedwell Mill SK 067 074 |
Tower | 1779 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Hanbury | 1567 | 1567 | ||||
Handsworth | SP 065 905 | Tower | Gone by 1794 | |||
Handsworth | SP 067 895 | Tower | 1759 | Demolished c. 1870 | ||
Hanley, | SJ 888 478 | Tower | c. 1795 | 1857 | ||
Hartshill | SJ 864 458 | Tower | 1780 | Demolished 1842 | ||
Haughton | SJ 874 192 | 1575 | 1638 | |||
Hilderstone | SJ 949 345 | 1798 | 1855 | |||
Himley | 1682 | 1682[21] | 1682[22] | |||
Himley | SO 874 913 | Post[23] | 1831 | 1881 | ||
Hixon | Approximately SK 002 257 |
Post | 1801 | 1841 |
K - M[]
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Kidsgrove | Kidsgrove Mill Long Row Mill SJ 840 541 |
Tower | 1812 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Kingswinford | Kingswinford Mill SO 874 895 |
Tower | 1834 | 1818 | 1886 | |
Kingswinford | Tansey Green Mill[24] SO 863 884 |
Post[25] | 1775 | 1775 | 1840[26] | |
Kinver | Approximately SO 856 842 |
1775 | 1775 | 1775 | ||
Lapley | Approximately SJ 874 128 |
1291 | 1358 | |||
Lichfield | Windmill House Grange Road Mill SK 109 106 |
Tower | 1809 | Windmill World | ||
Little Saredon | 1332 | 1332 | ||||
Little Saredon | Little Saredon Mill Shareshill Mill SJ 948 071 |
Tower | 1816 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Longdon | Windmill Farm Mill SK 066 148 |
Tower | 1806 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
Meir Heath | Meir Heath Mill SJ 930 401 |
Tower | 1775 | 1775 | Windmill World | ![]() |
Weeford Mill SK 135 020 |
Tower | 1818 | Demolished 2015 for installation of a quarry Windmill World |
N - Q[]
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Newborough | SK 125 252 | 1820 1831 |
1820 | 1831 | ||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | Approximately SJ 852 468 |
1696 | 1696 | |||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | Sneyd's Mill SJ 820 479 |
1682 | 1682 | Moved to Whitmore 1684 | ||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | SJ 844 456 | 1819 1820* |
1819 | 1820 | ||
Norbury | Approximately SJ 801 222 |
1686 1747 |
1686 | 1747 | ||
Norton-in-the-Moors | (two mills) SJ 895 518 |
1547 | 1547 | |||
Pattingham | Nurton Hill Mill SO 835 998 |
Tower | 1811 | Windmill World | ||
Pattingham | Approximately SJ 829 005 |
1682 | 1682 | 1682 | ||
Penkhull | SJ 870 450 | Tower | 1818 | Demolished 1891 | ||
Penkridge | Approximately SJ 918 139 |
1772 1820 |
1775 | 1820 | ||
Perry Bar | Holdford Mill[27] SP 073 917 |
1814 1831 |
1814 | 1831 | ||
Quinton | Ridgacre Mill[28] SP 002 847 |
Post[29] | 1887 | 1900 |
R - T[]
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Rowley Regis | Rowley Mill SO 969 876 |
Post | 1775 | 1775 | 1865 | |
Rowley Regis | Hailstone Mill Hawes Hill Mill SO 966 881 |
Post | 1682 1775 |
1682[30] | 1826[31] | |
Rowley Regis | Approximately SO 948 878 |
1819 | 1819 | 1819 | ||
Rugeley | Approximately SK 039 180 |
1600 | 1600 | |||
Rushall | Rushall Mill[32] approximately SK 028 011 |
Post[33] | 1775 1788 |
1693[34] | Demolished early 19th century | |
Rushall | Goscote Field Mill[35] | 1775 1788 1799 |
1744[36] | 1799, gone by 1816[37] | ||
Sandon | SJ 945 306 | 1682 1747 |
1682 | 1747 | ||
Sedgley | Ruiton Old Mill[38] | 1682 | 1682[39] | 1682[40] | ||
Rewardine Field Mill Ruiton Old Mill[41] SO 919 921 |
Tower | 1702 | Collapsed 31 January 1872 | |||
Sedgley | Roundhouse Mill SO 920 921 |
Tower | c. 1830 | Collapsed 1961 | ||
Sedgley | Sandyfields Mill SO 912 933 |
Tower | 1817 | 1822 | ||
Sedgley | Ruiton New Mill[42] SO 919 924 |
Tower | c. 1830 | ![]() | ||
Shelfield | High Heath Mill SP 034 027 |
Post | 1682 | 1682 | 1682 | |
Shelfield | Shelfield Mill SP 027 876 |
Post[43] | 1831 | 1831 | 1872 | |
Smethwick | Smethwick Mill SP 029 882 |
Tower | 1803 | Demolished August 1949[44] | ||
Smethwick | Cape Mill approximately SP 027 876 |
Tower | 1836 | |||
Stafford | Foregate Field | 1585 | 1585 | |||
Stafford | Broad Eye Mill SJ 918 232 |
Tower | 1796 | Broad Eye Windmill | ![]() | |
Stone | SJ 905 335 | Tower | 1803 | Demolished 1847 | ||
Tatenhill | SK 192 224 | Post | 1834 | 1861 | ||
Tettenhall Wood | Tettenhall Mill SO 873 991 |
Tower | 1818 | 1818 | ||
Trentham | Approximately SJ 850 397 |
Tower | 1802 | Demolished 1819 |
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Tunstall | SJ 857 515 | Tower | 1813 | Demolished 1855 |
U - Y[]
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Uttoxeter | SK 085 340 | Tower | 1809 | Demolished 1919 | ||
Walsall | Morteyn's Mill approximately SP 013 977 |
Post[45] | 1304 | Blown down 1393 | ||
Walsall | Persehouse's Mill approximately SP 015 978 |
Post[46] | 1619 | 1732, gone by 1735 | ||
Walsall | Blackham's Mill approximately SP 016 975 |
Post | 1732 1735 |
c. 1672[47] | 1735 | |
Walsall | Blackham's Mill approximately SP 016 975 |
Tower | 1829 | demolished 1885 | ||
Walsall | Highgate Mill SP 017 975 |
Post[48] | ||||
Walsall | Spring Hill Mill SP 023 977 |
Post[49] | 1799 1816 |
1799 | 1816 | |
Wednesbury | Church Hill Mill approximately SO 992 954 |
Post | 1686 | 1686 | 1868, gone by 1889 | |
Wednesbury | Church Hill Mill (2nd mill) approximately SO 990 954 |
Post | 1686 | 1686 | ||
Wednesbury | Church Hill Mill approximately SO 990 954 |
Tower | 1803 | 1868, gone by 1889 | ||
Wednesbury | King's Hill Mill SO 981 965 |
Post | 1686 | 1686 | 1886 | |
Approximately SO 990 954SO 932 999 |
1824 | 1849 | ||||
Wednesfield Heath | Mill Hill Mill SO 943 993 |
Demolished c. 1750 | ||||
Werrington | Werrington Mill SJ 942 475 |
Tower | 1730 | Windmill World | ![]() | |
West Bromwich | Hall Green Mill[50] approximately SP 003 941 |
Post | 1616 | 1822 | ||
West Bromwich | Rider's Mill approximately SO 997 940 |
Post[51] | 1694 | 1767, gone by 1775[52] | ||
West Bromwich | Mill Street Mill Tantany Mill[53] approximately SP 002 918 |
Post[54] | 1834 | 1842 | ||
West Bromwich | Windmill Field Lyndon Mill[55] approximately SP 008 925 |
Post[56] | 1808[57] | 1830s[58] | ||
West Bromwich | Crabb's Mill approximately SO 994 935 |
Post[59] | ||||
Weston under Lizard | SJ 807 107 | 1682 1749 |
1682 | 1749 | ||
Wheaton Aston | SJ 851 125 | Midlands post | 1854 | Burnt down c. 1912 | ![]() | |
Wigginton | SK 198 059 | 1818 | 1818 | 1828 | ||
Wightwick | Wightwick mill SO 871 981 |
Tower | 1720 | Windmill World Severely damaged by a gas explosion on 13 October 2018.[2] |
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Wightwick | (2nd mill) | Tower[60] | ||||
Wilbrighton | SJ 792 186 | 1787 | 1787 | |||
Willenhall | Nechells Mill[61] | Post[62] | 1682 | 1682[63] | 1682[64] | |
Willenhall | SO 968 982 | Post[65] | 1818 1831 1834 |
1818 | 1880 | |
Willenhall | Rose Hill Mill[66] | Post[67] | 1850[68] | 1850[69] | ||
Willenhall | Stowheath Mill[70] Tudor Mill[71] |
Post[72] | 1682 | 1625[73] | 1756 | |
Willenhall | Clemson's Mill[74] | Tower | Mid-18th century[75] | Demolished early 19th century[76] | ||
Wolverhampton | Stafford Street SO 916 996 |
Tower | 1775 | 1775 | Demolished 1893 | |
Wolverhampton | Stafford Street (2nd mill) SO 916 996 |
post[77] | 1775 | 1775 | ||
Wolverhampton | Quebb Mill[78] approximately SO 916 996 |
1686 1832 |
1587[79] | 1832 | ||
Wolverhampton | Penn Mill SO 902 969 |
Post[80] | 1813 | 1837 | ||
Wolverhampton | Wolverhampton Mill SO 916 984 |
1686 | 1686 | 1686 | ||
Wolverhampton | Goldthorn Hill SO 909 969 |
1818 | 1818 | c. 1905 | ||
Wombourne | SO 877 933 | 1818 1834 |
1818 | 1834 | ||
Woodseaves | SJ 796 250 | 1821 | Early 20th century | |||
Wrottesley | Pendeford Mill SJ 887 034 |
1819 | Gone by 1883 | |||
Yarnfield | Tarnfield Mill SJ 862 325 |
c. 1800 | 1861 | |||
Yarnfield | Heanie's Mill SJ 860 315 |
1824 | 1827 | |||
Yoxall | 1570 | 1570 | ||||
Yoxhall | SK 141 190 | 1818 | 1892 |
Maps[]
- 1682 Joseph Brown
- 1686 Robert Plot
- 1747 Jeffrey
- 1749 Bowen
- 1775 Yates
- 1799 Yates
- 1814 Ordnance Survey
- 1817 Ordnance Survey
- 1818 C & G Greenwood
- 1820 C & G Greenwood
- 1820* Sherwood
- 1831 Yates
- 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.
Sources[]
Unless otherwise indicated, the source for all entries is:-Job, Barry (1985). Staffordshire windmills. Birmingham: Midland Wind and Watermills Group.
^1 McKenna, Joseph (1986). Windmills of Birmingham and the Black Country. Studley: K A F Brewin Books. ISBN 0-947731-10-5.
References[]
- ^ Six sails
- ^ "Wolverhampton windmill destroyed in suspected gas blast". BBC News Online. 14 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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